Animal Care Specialist

2 weeks ago

Pawling, New York, United States Happy Life Animal Rescue Full time
Job Overview

Happy Life Animal Rescue, a 501(c)3 organization based in Pawling NY, is seeking an Animal Care Specialist to join our team. As a vital member of our staff, you will play a key role in ensuring the well-being and care of dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens in our rescue.

About the Role:

  • Provide Timely and Thorough Animal Care: Ensure that animal care at Happy Life Animal Rescue is timely, exact, and thorough for all animals in our care.
  • Work Collaboratively with Volunteers and Staff: Collaborate with volunteers and staff to help the system run smoothly when it comes to essential daily tasks like cleaning and feeding.
  • Recognize Individual Animal Needs: Pause to recognize individual animals and their unique needs within the system.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Perform Basic Observations: Perform basic observations and report the general behavior and health of animals in all departments of the program.
  • Maintain Sanitation Protocols: Adhere to strict sanitation protocols specific to each program.
  • Clean Animal Habitats: Clean animal habitats including scooping litter boxes, removing feces, replacing soiled bedding, disposing of litter/debris, scrubbing and sanitizing rooms and/or kennels, replenishing water bowls, and sanitizing play yards.

Additional Tasks:

  • Deep Cleaning and Maintenance: Perform deep clean tasks on a regularly scheduled basis, sweep and mop floors daily, empty trash in all assigned areas, wash and sanitize dirty litter boxes, wash and sanitize dirty food and water bowls, wash dirty laundry, and restock essential supplies.
  • Specialized Care: Maintain special feeding protocols for certain animals, work collaboratively and in a positive manner with all volunteers and staff, walk dogs as needed and rotate into play yards, set up dog and cat kennels with fresh water, food, and bedding, meet transporters bringing dogs and cats to APA and assist with loading/unloading, provide customer service to potential adopters, volunteers, and visitors, and assist with van and kennel cleaning and preparation for transport.

Requirements and Qualifications:

  • Basic Knowledge of Animal Handling and Care: Possess basic experience in animal handling and care, basic knowledge of common animal health conditions, and basic knowledge of animal behavior.
  • Excellent Communication Skills: Effectively communicate with others in person, on the phone, and through email, maintain open and consistent communication with the Program Manager or designee, supervisor, and other colleagues, and work efficiently with minimal oversight to complete all duties and responsibilities.
  • Physical Demands: Must be able to routinely lift 40-50 pounds, work around animals (including diseased, injured, and/or potentially aggressive animals), loud noises, chlorine or other chemicals, and inclement weather, comfortably interact with cats/dogs of various health levels, including zoonotic diseases such as ringworm, scabies, intestinal parasites, etc., bend and use your arms in a repetitive manner, be on your feet for an entire 3-5 hour shift, have physical strength to perform cleaning duties quickly and on schedule, walk big dogs that pull and jump, visually observe people and animals from up to 150 feet away, hear normal speech at close contact and shouting up to 150 feet away with the ability to hear and discern dog vocalizations both soft and loud, and sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, stoop, bend, stretch, squat, kneel, grasp, grip, put fingers together firmly and reach above and below shoulder level, lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds, and push and pull up to 50 pounds.

Working Environment:

  • Rapid Pace and Potential Hazards: Work in a rapid pace environment with exposure to potential hazards including animal waste, disinfectants, high levels of noise, dogs barking, potential for animal bites and scratches and diseases that can be transmitted from animals to people, occasional after-hours or weekend work required to support program needs, and exposure to unpleasant odors.

Compensation: $15.00 per hour. This is a part-time position of up to 32 hours per week.

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