Job Title: Seasonal Wildlife Technician
Division: Animal Care
Reports To: Hospital Manager
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt, Full Time Seasonal
Prepared Date: October 2024
Summary: This is a non-exempt, full-time, seasonal Wildlife Technician position whose responsibility is to ensure that all animals at CWC receive adequate and appropriate husbandry care, to manage the daily tasks of a volunteer-based veterinary clinic, and implement protocols, procedures, medical evaluations, and treatment of native California animals as set by CWC management. The dates of employment are from around March 1st, 2025, through October 31st, 2025.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
include the following (other duties may be assigned):
- Ensures that enclosures and facilities are cleaned and maintained daily, feeding schedules are adhered to and other animal care needs are met.
- Performs intakes, examinations, basic diagnostic procedures, and create treatment plans for incoming patients.
- Responds to hospital cell phone text messages.
- Admits animals from the public and provides assistance both in person and over the phone regarding animal rescues, transport, emergency care and nuisance wildlife situations.
- Administers medical treatments according to CWC policies.
- Maintains and updates animal patient care records.
- Ensures that protocols that minimize the risk of contraction of zoonotic diseases are adhered to.
- Assists the veterinarian with animal care, treatments, and procedures.
- Coordinates animal releases as needed.
Supervisory Responsibilities
With the Volunteer Coordinator, supervises, manages, and trains interns, volunteers and externs; delegates and ensures satisfactory completion of tasks.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and Experience:
Education and/or Experience:
- At least one year of experience working at a wildlife rehabilitation center as an employee, volunteer or intern. (Internship term may be less than a year).
- Must have experience working with volunteers.
Other required qualifications:
- Must be able to work cooperatively with co-workers, volunteers, interns, externs, and the general public.
- Must be able to provide a friendly, tolerant environment for staff, volunteers, interns, and externs.
- Must be able to work quickly, efficiently, and calmly under stressful conditions.
- Must be able to handle multiple responsibilities.
- Must possess good verbal and written communication skills.
- Must have a valid California State driver’s license, with a clean record to be insured by our insurance.
- Upon hire, must pass a background check.
- Must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and able to show COVID Vaccination Card as proof of vaccination.
Desired experience and education:
- Familiarity with basic lab work, physical exams, administering subcutaneous fluids, providing necessary treatments, dosing, and administering medications and stabilizing animals through emergency and critical care.
- Degree in biological/zoological sciences, ecology, or conservation medicine.
Language Skills:
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedures manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of interns, volunteers, or employees of the organization.
Mathematical Skills:
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate ratio and percentages.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Computer Skills:
To perform this job successfully, and individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office and preferably the WRMD.org database.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work may require hiking, climbing, lifting, bending, stooping, pushing and other moderately strenuous activities.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk, hear and smell. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk and sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is routinely exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals, zoonotic diseases, aggressive and feral animals, mechanical moving parts, outside weather conditions and risk of radiation. The noise level in the work environment can be loud.
Contact:
Send cover letter and resume to the Hospital Manager, Kristen Kanatzar (kkanatzar@cawildlife.org). No calls please.
EOE/M/F/D/V/SO