Job Summary:
This position is responsible for providing daily care and enrichment for shelter animals, ensuring the health and wellbeing of shelter animals, maintaining a clean and sanitary environment, and assisting visitors and customers. This position requires work on weekends and holidays.
Major Duties:
· Feeds, walks, exercises, and bathes shelter animals.
· Provides medical care and administers medications/vaccinations.
· Maintains animal records.
· Ensuring all animals are attended to and cared for during inclement weather, Holidays, and days the shelter is closed to the public.
· Provides daily enrichment and behavior modification to shelter pets.
· Cleans shelter facilities, cages, runs, and ensures laundry and dishes are sanitized appropriately.
· Houses and provide daily care for animals in rabies/bite quarantine.
· Removal of captured animals from traps.
· Locates pet owners, traces rabies tags, microchips, ID tags, and tattoos.
· Completes animal intakes, adoptions, reclaims and surrenders.
· Provides information and assistance to the general public.
· Participate in training for local schools and civic groups.
· Maintains and repairs equipment and tools; maintains department facilities.
· Assists in updating social media.
· Arranges animal transportation to other facilities, set up crates, food, water, litter, etc.
· Safely secure aggressive animals.
· Provide counseling to potential adopters and citizens needing to relinquish pets.
· Performs other related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
· Ability to read, write and perform mathematical calculations at a level commonly associated with the completion of high school or equivalent.
· Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position.
· Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid Class C Driver’s License issued by the State of Georgia.
The successful candidate must pass a Background/Reference Check, and Pre-Employment Drug Screenings prior to the start of employment.
To Apply: All applicants must complete a Habersham County employment application. Applications can be found online at www.habershamga.com. Applications and a detailed job description can be picked up at the Habersham County Human Resources Department, Administration Building located at 130 Jacob’s Way, Clarkesville, GA 30523 in room 303. For more information please call (706) 839-0214. Habersham County is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace.
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