Animal Care Technician

SUMMARY: The Animal Care Technician provides daily care, enrichment, and promotes the safety and health of our pets.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Follows established disease control protocols to clean, disinfect, and sanitize kennels, equipment, walkways, general areas, and other job-related item daily.
• Ensures all animals are adequately fed, provided water, as well as housed and cared for within the Five Freedoms or Animal Welfare guidelines.
• Handle animals humanely sand safely using safety equipment if necessary.
• Be able to recognize signs of illness or behavior changes and update the appropriate team.
• Cultivates positive client, volunteer, and coworker relations through professional, courteous, and educational interactions.
• Provides quality customer service to clients, volunteers, and staff while actively promoting our mission, services, programs, and events.
• Provides our animal population with sufficient daily exercise and time outside of their kennels.
• Assist clients with adoptions; facilitates client and animal interactions to ensure safe and pleasant experience.
• Complete daily tasks as outlined on our Daily ACT Task Sign Off sheet.
• Creates and maintains necessary animal records and data entry.

• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• 6 months working/volunteering with domestic animals in an animal shelter, veterinary hospital, or another animal facility preferred. NOTE: Any applicable volunteer or work experience should be listed and include hours worked and job duties.
• Candidates must be flexible and able to work all shifts, including starting as early as 5am and finishing as late as 8pm. Working weekends and holidays.

COMPETENCIES:

• Ethics - Treats people with respect; Keeps commitments; Inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.
• Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; Manages competing demands; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
• Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time; Ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent; Arrives at meetings and appointments on time.
• Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.
• Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities; Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views; Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Puts success of team above own interests; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.

.PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Regularly required to stand, walk on all types of surfaces, sometimes slippery and/or uneven and rough.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 50lbs and perform duties that require lifting, bending, and stooping.
• Working with and/or around others often and will experience frequent interruptions.
• Environmental factors can be indoors or outdoors and working in the extreme heat of Arizona summers.