Part-time Animal Control Officer

Full Job Description

Job Description

The Part-time Animal Control Office (Animal Welfare) will be responsible for monitoring and ensuring all animals are in good health, cages are disinfected and clean to ensure a disease-free living environment, as well as ensuring animals are properly fed, watered, and issued any required medication.

The position will involve responding to citizen complaints of stray, vicious, sick, injured or diseased animals, and working with local authorities.

Essential Duties

• Assisting with maintaining various records on animals, up to and including: processing intakes and adoptions, reviewing and the upkeeping of medical charts and records, keeping records on animals held for court cases
• Maintaining logs on all diseases, medications, and treatments as required by state and federal regulations
• Assisting with investigating cruelty and abandonment of domestic animals and livestock
• Working closely with senior officers to gather information used to prosecute violators
• Assisting field officers in unloading, checking in and relocating animals in the shelter
• Assisting with intake activities on animals
• Assisting the public with touring the shelter for lost or adoptable animals
• Assisting with investigating reported bite cases
• Assisting in conducting rabies quarantine checks and verify quarantine requirements are met
• Assisting in the decapitation, preparation, and transportation of specimens to the state lab for testing
• Assisting in euthanizing animals
• Participating in other functions assigned to the euthanasia laboratory.

Public Speaking Duties

• Assisting with adoption and/or outreach events

Other Job Requirements/Information

• This job is a safety sensitive position that will require a pre-employment drug test and subsequent random drug and alcohol testing
• This job may require on-call rotation and emergency after hours, weekends, and/or holidays job requires fingerprinting.

Hourly rate

• The hourly rate is $15.75
  

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED
• One year of animal control or animal welfare experience
  • Or, an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above.
• Driver’s license (required)

Preferred Qualifications in addition to the above minimum qualifications

• Pre-exposure Rabies vaccine or current titer (within 6 months of employment)

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