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CA Shelter Caregiver
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Barn cleaning and maintaining barn cleaning schedule
- Animal feeding and maintaining animal feeds schedule
- Animal watering and maintaining animal watering schedule
- Daily animal health care & treatments
- Weekly animal health checks
- Animal health care projects as assigned
- Shelter Coordination projects as assigned (animal charting, ordering animal supplies, etc.)
- Shelter cleaning projects
- Maintaining animal rehabilitation & treatment areas
- Training animal caregiver assistants, barn cleaners, shelter interns and volunteers
- Reporting animal health and/or other shelter problems directly to shelter director
- Shelter caregivers work closely with the shelter director to ensure quality animal care, proper barn cleanings, and maintenance of all animal feeds & watering schedules.
Qualifications:
- Excellent 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 and able to monitor and report on all shelter staff duties
- Very reliable and dependable
- Positive attitude
- Commitment to Farm Sanctuary's animal care policies
- Commitment to Farm Sanctuary's organizational programs and goals
- Previous animal experience is required
- Minimum two year experience at animal care facility; volunteer history at animal advocacy organization(s)
Job Specifics:
- Full-time
- Weekends required: Work schedule is generally Sunday through Thursday or Tuesday through Saturday but possibility of no weekend days off and schedule subject to change.
- Required to work on some holidays
- Salary range $22,000 to $26,000 based on experience and qualifications
- Competitive benefits package
Please send resume or employment application to:
Farm Sanctuary Human Resources Dept.
P.O. Box 150
Watkins Glen, NY 14891
Fax: 607-583-2041
E-mail: HumanResources@farmsanctuary.org
Click here to apply online.
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