Job description
ABOUT USYork County Animal Shelter is looking for a new member to join our team! Our shelter is an open intake government shelter with a high-life saving focus. The average intake is 4000 animals a year. Our live out rate last year averaged 94%.
MISSION: York County Animals Services" Mission is to create a collaborative community dedicated to supporting and protecting its pets and people through humane sheltering, adoption, education, outreach, and enforcement.
VISION: York County Animal Services" Vision is to build a humane community where all animals are treated with respect and compassion.
York County is located in the Piedmont region, between the Broad River and the Catawba River. Its diverse landscape is home to family-friendly towns/cities, a progressive urban region and lakefront communities. We are excited you want to join our team and recognize that our employees are the foundation of our success. ABOUT OUR OPPORTUNITY
We invite you to apply to join our team as a full-time (40 hours per week), Behavior and Placement Coordinator within the Animal Services Department. This newly created position will primarily focus on providing, creating and implementing socialization and behavior modification plans for dogs and cats at York County Animal Control. This position is also responsible for instructing shelter staff on appropriate placement recommendations as well as leading training for animal adoption staff, volunteers, and public in animal behavior.
To learn about this position and our other opportunities, please refer to our recruitment video: https://youtu.be/T_ygifSUrW8
Benefits: participation in the South Carolina Retirement System, comprehensive medical benefits, sick, vacation, and 11 paid holidays plus 3 optional days or floating holidays.
Work Schedule: 8:30 am -5:30 pm or 9 am -6 pm. Position includes occasional on call, weekends, and evenings.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
~ Identifies behavioral needs of individual animals and implements specific positive based behavior modification, training, and enrichment plans to address those needs.
~ Provides accurate behavioral assessments using the Dogs Playing for Life model, Meet Your Match (MYM), and Behavior Observation to identify behavioral needs and play styles for playgroups.
~ Creates, maintains, and updates behavioral records/profiles in Chameleon database, Excel, and Word documents.
~ Provides playgroups for all eligible canines in our care based on the Dogs Playing for Life model.
~ Coordinates and implements daily enrichment program for shelter animals.
~ Develops and conducts training programs for staff, volunteers, and public as directed by Animal Services Director.
~ Communicates with staff and volunteers via in person, telephone, and email to assist with behavioral concerns.
Other Duties:
~ Attends training as required to enhance job knowledge and skills.
~ Performs other duties as assigned. ABOUT YOU
ABOUT YOU - Experience and Education
Completion of an Associate"s degree and three (3) years of related experience.
Must be at least 18 years old.
Certifications and Licenses
Must possess valid state driver"s license or other valid form of identification.
Preferred Education and Experience
Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT) certification preferred.
One (1) year experience in an animal shelter setting preferred.
Applicants with equivalent experience and/or education may be considered.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities/Attributes
Knowledge:
~ Knowledge of common behavior problems in companion animals as well as positive based reinforcement learning theory.
~ Knowledge of the Dogs Playing for Life or other dog playgroup models.
Skills, Abilities and Attributes:
~ Ability to plan and execute programs relating to behavioral modification and training using positive reinforcement methods.
~ Ability to humanely handle dogs and cats of all breeds, sizes, and temperaments.
~ Ability to diffuse animal altercations using humane safety tools.
~ Ability to present material orally and in writing to a variety of audiences.
~ Ability to work effectively and efficiently as part of a team or independently on assigned tasks.
~ Ability to accept direction on given assignments.
~ Ability to be diplomatic and informative. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Physical & Dexterity Requirements:
Requires work involving standing, walking, gripping or feeling with hands, reaching with hands and arms, stooping, and kneeling, crouching, or crawling and talking or hearing over 2/3 of the time; tasting or smelling 1/3 to 2/3 of the time; and sitting and climbing or balancing less than 1/3 of the time. Requires lifting up to 25 pounds over 2/3 of the time; up to 50 pounds 1/3 to 2/3 of the time; and more than 100 pounds under 1/3 of the time.
Vision Requirements:
Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less); Distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more); Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors); Peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up or down or to the left and right when vision is fixed on a given point). Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships); Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
Potential Environmental Conditions/Hazards:
The job may risk exposure to indoor environment, outdoor environment, noise, moisture and/or humidity, dust, fumes, gases, electrical hazards, mechanical hazards, chemical hazards, potential for violence/physical alterations, exposure to infectious diseases or bloodborne pathogens, and reactive or feral animals. JOB DESCRIPTION
0200.Behavior Placement Coordinator 5.26.21.pdf Disclaimer
York County is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to achieving excellence and strength through diversity. The County seeks a wide range of applicants for its positions so that one of our core values, a qualified and diverse workforce, will be affirmed. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance requires the County to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.
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