Casual Pet Academy Trainer and Sales Assistant

Petbarn; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 50 000 - 200 000; Part time

Job summary

A leading pet retailer is seeking a friendly Dog Trainer for casual work in their Spearwood store. The role involves delivering dog training classes, adhering to animal welfare guidelines, and engaging in ongoing training sessions. Candidates should have a passion for animal behavior, excellent communication skills, and ideally some retail experience. If you love pets and have a customer service orientation, this is a great opportunity to build a rewarding career.

Qualifications

• Experience in positive reinforcement-based training is highly regarded.
• Commitment to the care and welfare of pets.
• Retail experience working with a high-volume retailer is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Deliver dog training classes and one-on-one sessions.
• Participate in retail training and store procedures.
• Maintain high training standards and comply with animal welfare guidelines.

Skills

Animal behaviour knowledge

Public speaking

Customer service orientation

Teamwork

Education

Animal studies qualifications

Job description

Overview

Petbarn, Australasia's leading pet specialty retailer, has over 230 locations throughout Australia and New Zealand. For over 30 years, customers have come to Petbarn for exceptional products, outstanding service, the best advice, and an experience second to none! We have exciting career opportunities for people with the right stuff, and who love pets!

We are looking for an extremely friendly Dog Trainer to work on a casual basis in our Spearwood Petbarn store.

Responsibilities

• Deliver dog training classes and one-on-one dog training.
• Your initial onboarding will also include retail training and store procedures as well as in-depth training of our Pet School classes and operations.
• You must be reliable, determined to meet high standards, flexible regarding working days and hours and able to work unsupervised.
• You must be willing to deliver the pet training content as provided to you to remain within our animal welfare and ethics guidelines, as well as undertaking regular paid training sessions with our senior Trainers to refresh and improve your skills.
• As part of your responsibilities, you must be physically fit and capable so as to handle dogs of all sizes as reasonably expected of the role. You may be required to lift heavy items up to 20kg (e.g., bags of dog food). In your training role you will likely be required to work with species other than dogs as well in the future (i.e., kitten/cat and aquatic classes).
• We are looking for people who want to grow with the business and who are determined to work with a team to achieve results.
• We're looking for motivated and talented people who enjoy what they do and thrive in a training and sales environment. If you share our love for the pet parents we serve, the merchandise we sell, and the work we do, this is a place for you to build a rewarding career.

Qualifications

• Passion for animal behaviour and training. Positive reinforcement-based training experience or qualifications are highly regarded.
• Commitment to the care of pets
• Public speaking and presentation experience
• High integrity, and be highly motivated and proactive
• Composure under stress and pressure
• The ability to communicate with clients of all pet experience levels with ease
• Ideally some retail experience working with a high volume, disciplined retailer
• Strong customer service orientation
• Ability to work within a team
• Animal studies qualifications will be highly regarded
• A commitment to ongoing learning and improvement in the field of science-based animal training