Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Provides daily care, feeding, cleaning, training and enrichment activities for all animals aquatic and terrestrial according to the established protocols.
- Perform daily inspections and maintenance of animal exhibits, ensuring optimal water quality, habitat conditions, and environmental enrichment.
- Performs daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance on all LSS equipment.
- Monitor animal health and behavior, reporting any concerns to the Animal Care Team Director.
- Maintain detailed animal/exhibit records
- Assist with quarantine procedures, habitat maintenance, and water quality testing on quarantine systems according to the established safety protocols.
- Assists with vet staff for all animal health related issues, treatments, procedures, and restraints.
- Treats animals humanely, with compassion and concern and transmits these values and the NBSTCC’s mission to other volunteers and visitors.
- Routine daily cleaning of animal habitats, aquariums, food prep area.
- Preparation of all animal diets, aquatic and terrestrial.
- Assists with development of animal enrichment projects.
- Provides daily enrichment to all animals and logs information into the enrichment program.
- Provides education chats on the NBSTCC’s resident animals and coastal and marine ecosystems for visitors in a fast-paced work environment, which, at times, may be stressful or emotionally charged.
- Leads & participates in center programs and events. Including offsite educational opportunities
- Assists with opening and closing procedures.
Additional Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in biology, zoology, or related area of study
- Must be detail oriented and self-motivated.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and creative skills are necessary.
- Must be able to work weekends, evenings, and holidays
- Ability to work well in a team environment
- Strong computer literacy and data entry skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel) and Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Gmail).
- Must be able to conduct and/or learn required information and techniques associated with animal care.
- Must be physically fit; able to lift, carry, and push objects weighing at least 50 lbs.
- Includes exposure to sounds and noise levels that may be distracting or uncomfortable.
- Requires working outdoors, exposed to extreme temperatures and harsh weather conditions.
- Physical exertion will include repetitive standing, walking, stooping, bending, pushing, twisting and lifting.
- Must be able to feed live fish, shrimp, worms, mealworms, crickets and other food sources to animals that require live feedings.
Consults With:
- Animal Care Director and Supervisors
