Grow with Purpose
Calling all current college and university students! MBGNA is excited to announce a wide variety of paid internship opportunities! We're looking for enthusiastic changemakers who are passionate about social and ecological resilience, equity, justice, sustainability, climate-forward practices, and biocultural diversity to join our team.
Our internships offer flexibility in length, hours, and focus, and span 10 diverse job categories. Whether you're interested in research, horticulture, community outreach, or something else, there's likely a perfect fit for you at MBGNA.
Who We Are
University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum (MBGNA) stewards over 840 acres of land and water across four properties in and around Ann Arbor, with Nichols Arboretum and Matthaei Botanical Gardens serving as its two anchor locations. Click here to view our Strategic Plan. With more than 500,000 annual visitors, MBGNA is committed to becoming a transformative force for social and ecological resilience through the lands and waters we steward. We put that commitment into action by:
- Positioning humans as active participants within the natural world and compelling the university community and our publics to negotiate the full complexity that entails
- Advancing partnerships, programs, user experience, and all that we steward to catalyze equity and justice in a radically changing world
- Emerging as University of Michigan’s premier partner for research, teaching, and public impact in sustainability, climate-forward practices, and biocultural diversity
- Promoting healthier communities, cultures, and ecosystems through active care and cultivation of the gardens, fields, natural habitats, and dynamic systems that sustain our world.