TRCA- Restoration & Infrastructure


Volunteer- Citizen Science Volunteer Program, Medicine Wheel Garden and Pollinator Plot Maintenance

Volunteer Role Details:

PLEASE NOTE:  We are beginning recruitment for the 2025 volunteer season

Duration:  April 2025 - November 2025

Work Location(s): Heart Lake Conservation Park, 10818 Heart Lake Road, Brampton

Volunteer Hours: Variable

Number of Vacancies:  Unlimited

Division: Restoration and Infrastructure

How you will contribute as part of the TRCA Volunteer team:

The Citizen Science Volunteer Program provides volunteers with new skills that could be transferrable for future career opportunities in the environmental field or to provide unique and interesting learning activities for anyone who is passionate about the environment and would like to give back. Through the program, volunteers will help make areas more resilient and adaptable, increasing success and population growth. We train and mentor volunteers to assist TRCA staff with a variety of priority projects. 

What you will do as a volunteer: 

This opportunity would predominately be working with TRCA staff and members of the Four Colours Drum Circle, an Indigenous group who are the caretakers of the Medicine Wheel Garden located within the Heart Lake Conservation Area in Brampton.  Beyond the maintenance of the pollinator plots we are looking to expand the programming held at the MWG and volunteers would be engaged with these activities including the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (Sept 30) and other events.​

What will you need to succeed:

  • Passion for or knowledge of environmental topics, with a focus on local wildlife, native plants, and environmental conservation
  • Comfortable working outdoors in a team environment
  • Excellent interpersonal, organization and communication skills
  • Native plant identification skills is an asset
  • Willingness to learn
  • Volunteers must be 14 years of age or older

While the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) thanks all volunteer applicants for their interest, only those under consideration will be contacted.

In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, and TRCA Policies, accommodations will be provided at any point throughout the volunteer selection process, provided the volunteer candidate makes their accommodation needs known to the TRCA.  We welcome volunteer applications from all qualified persons. 

Personal information you provide through the TRCA volunteer recruitment, selection, and onboarding process is collected under the authority of the Conservation Authorities Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.27. Collection of this personal information is necessary for the proper administration of this volunteer recruitment process for volunteer opportunities with TRCA. Personal information is protected from disclosure pursuant to the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Any question regarding this collection activity should be directed to the Manager of Records and Information, 101 Exchange Avenue, Vaughan, Ontario, L4K 5R6, (437) 880 2308.