Behavior Technician

Animal Care Specialist Do you love taking care of animals? If you have a passion for cats, dogs, and rabbits and want to work directly with pets until they find their forever home, here is a terrific opportunity for you at Animal Friends! We have both full-time, part-time, and casual positions, along with both daylight and evening shifts available. Animal Friends offers an individualized and holistic approach to animal sheltering, rescue, and rehoming. Our residents receive personalized care and one-one interactions with the goal of maximizing their quality of life. In a shelter setting, mental health and physical health go hand in hand, and our approach focuses on minimizing stress and anxiety. With enrichment and positive reinforcement training incorporated into their routines, our animal residents have an active and cooperative role in the daily care they receive. What You Will Be Doing: Working as a team to feed, exercise, socialize, and clean up after our residents. Getting to know our many cats, dogs and rabbits then sharing your insights with future adopters, behavior specialists, and members of the medical team. Helping with power washing, laundry, restocking of supplies, and occasional trash removal. Learning and implementing Fear Free techniques and positive reinforcement training when handling any animal in our care. Partnering with Humane Investigations during mass rescues. Requirements While prior animal handling and husbandry experience is a plus, a passion for animals and animal welfare, along with a team-oriented outlook, are the key ingredients for success. You must be able to meet the physical demands (with or without accommodations) to safely move through out our kennels and feed our animals. The ideal candidate is eager to learn our team's protocols and is adaptable to the ever-changing demands of our shelter and the community we care for.