Responsibilities:
- Provide care and support to animals in a shelter setting
- Handle animals safely and compassionately, ensuring their well-being at all times
- Provide general pet care, including cleaning, walking, feeding, and administering medications
- Provide exceptional customer service to all shelter guests and partners.

- Maintain cleanliness and organization of kennel areas

Required Skills

Knowledge of professional and appropriate standard of care with regards to animal wellbeing;

· Knowledge of or the ability to learn and appropriately apply city and state laws regulating the treatment, care, quarantining and impounding of animals;

· Ability to use effective communications skills, both orally and in writing;

· Ability to safely drive an animal control vehicle, if needed;

· Ability to read animal behavior and handle vicious and dangerous animals, or have the ability to be trained to do so;

· Ability to operate a computer, cell phone, office equipment, and animal control related equipment, or be trained to do so;

· Ability to use animal shelter/control related software, or be trained to do so;

· Ability to use various medical instruments, such as a stethoscope, syringes, nebulizer.

Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The employee may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $12.00 - $14.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Weekends as needed

Work Location: In person