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Shelter Caregiver Assistant
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Animal feeding and maintaining animal feeding schedules
- Animal watering and maintaining animal watering schedules
- Barn cleaning
- Shelter cleaning projects as assigned
- Assisting with animal health care and health checks
Caregiver Assistants are part of a team of shelter workers who are assigned one of four animal care areas each day: Barn cleaning; Animal feeding & watering; Shelter projects; or Animal health care assistance. Shelter workers must be able to complete any of the four areas assigned and complete all tasks assigned within these animal care areas.
Qualifications:
- Good animal behavior observation skills
- Able to work in all weather conditions
- Able to perform strenuous physical labor and lifting
- Must be able to follow detailed instructions and maintain animal care schedules as assigned
- Ability to work well with variety of people
- Team player
- Very reliable and dependable
- Commitment to Farm Sanctuary's animal care policies
- Commitment to Farm Sanctuary's organizational programs and goals
Shelter Caregiver Assistants should have a strong desire and ability to do hands-on shelter work and a personal commitment to rescuing and protecting farm animals. Caregiver Assistants are vital team members of our shelters, where providing quality animal care is the number one priority.
Job Specifications:
- Full-time
- Weekends required: Work schedule varies
- Required to work on some holidays
- Salary range $17,000 to $21,000 based on experience and qualifications
- One year experience at animal care facility preferred and/or animal advocacy volunteer history
Please send resume to:
Farm Sanctuary Human Resources Dept.
P.O. Box 150
Watkins Glen, NY 14891
Fax: 607-583-2041
E-mail: HumanResources@farmsanctuary.org
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