Employment and Internship Opportunities

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Cedar Point employs three year-round staff members to run the station. During the in-season (mid-May to October), we employ between 10 and 15 students to help run our kitchen, manage our equipment/supplies, and to improve/maintain the grounds.

Important information for all employment and internships:

  • Have the chance to take a class during the summer (online or in-person)
  • May start date and August end date
  • 30 - 40 hours per week
  • $15 - $17 per hour dependent on internship and level
  • FREE FOOD and HOUSING!!

We accept applications year round for the in-season. If you are interesting in any of our summer positions, PLEASE APPLY.

Please use the name which is logged with the university. This is generally your legal name.

If different from your legal name, please put the name you are most comfortable with.

New or Returning Required

List years you worked with us.

Please select the goal for the summer. If it changes, let us know. It helps us plan for individual goals and priorities.

Internship
Learn the nitty gritty of running a field station.
Learn how to feed and keep the field station usable.
Keep the grounds and trails nice, work to continue to re-prairie the area, and remove redcedar from canyons.

If you are taking classes or participating in research, you qualify for consideration in our CPWorks program. Our program covers your room and board during your class and/or research. It requires you to work 20-30 hours a week on average over the summer. While in a CPBS class, you would not work. While doing research, we require at least a 20 hour a week commitment and a partial funding or payment for at least $500 or half of time spent at CPBS. Have questions? Please contact us! cpbs@unl.edu or aroddy2@unl.edu

List class or research. If doing research, list researcher you will be working for and if it's UCARE related.

Please list any and all time off you already have on your calendars including travel time to and from the CPBS campus from mid-May to mid-August. Any time you will NOT be able to work. This helps us plan and gives you priority during scheduling.

One file only.
20 MB limit.
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This is a short letter on why you would like to work with us, such as, what you expect to gain from us and what we can expect to gain from hiring you.


One file only.
20 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, png, bmp, eps, tif, pict, psd, txt, rtf, html, odf, pdf, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, xml, avi, mov, mp3, ogg, wav, bz2, dmg, gz, jar, rar, sit, svg, tar, zip.

Name a mentor that can attest to the belief in your success while at this immersive, experiential campus. The recommendation should only be 3-5 sentences in length and emailed to cpbs@unl.edu.

Please the email and phone number of your recommender.