Animal Shelter Attendant: Care, Adoptions & Kennels

NassauCountyFLChamber; Yulee (FL); Hybrid; USD 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Nassau County Board of County Commissioners in Yulee, FL is seeking an Animal Shelter Attendant to care for animals and maintain clean, humane living conditions in the shelter/center.

Responsibilities include feeding, monitoring health, handling, assisting the public with lost pets or adoptions, and supporting euthanasia processes when needed. Shift rotations and after-hours may be required.

Responsibilities

• Maintains kennels and outside areas in a clean and sanitary manner.
• Feeds and waters animals daily according to schedules; monitors animals in the kennels on a continuous basis for sickness, injury, or death.
• Receives animals being delivered to the shelter by officers and/or the public. Impounds and places them within the facility according to size, sex, needs and circumstances involved in their pick up; maintains strict accountability by keeping animals with their respective records. Takes pictures of stray animals to publish on social media.
• Bathes, dips, inoculates, clips, grooms, and provides minor first aid and lab tests to the animals.
• Handles animals, some of which may be aggressive and/or dangerous.
• Assists the public in search of a lost pet or when seeking to adopt a new one; maintains records pertaining to shelter/center operations as assigned, to include having potential adopters sign into the Constant Contact guest book prior to viewing animals.
• Aids in the euthanasia process, such as holding, pulling, bagging and placing in freezer and/or in Animal Control truck.
• Prepares list of kennel supplies and food.
• Attends offsite adoptions events.
• Recognizes signs of stress or disease in animals, and reports any sick or injured animals within the shelter/center to the Senior Shelter/Center Attendant.
• Move animals from temporary holding areas into appropriate kennels.
• Compares intake reports to actual count of animals within the shelter.
• Selects sick and injured animals for euthanization.
• Performs general housekeeping and yard duties.
• Maintains simple to moderate written reports.
• Maintains records/files.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Animal care

Kennel maintenance

Record keeping

Public assistance

Basic first aid

Tools

Constant Contact

Job description

Nassau County Board of County Commissioners in Yulee, FL is seeking an Animal Shelter Attendant to care for animals and maintain clean, humane living conditions in the shelter/center.

Responsibilities include feeding, monitoring health, handling, assisting the public with lost pets or adoptions, and supporting euthanasia processes when needed. Shift rotations and after-hours may be required.