Dedicated wildlife and conservation educator with history of delivering exceptional care to animals in various settings. Passionately promotes health and optimal wellness by providing quality support. Careful to observe animals and communicate concerns to help optimize care.
• Provide support to a team of educator guides.
• Operates organization vehicles/mobile cart(s)
• Manage organization of materials and preparation for school trips, tours, and animal presentations.
• Pass trainings regarding safety, SDZWA missions, and school group management.
• Provides customer service to program participants
• Foresees program needs
• Prepares and ensures availability of program materials
• Otto Center Technician for Auditorium as needed
• Provides operational support for Education Programs
• Aid in training of horses and ponies, both under saddle and ground training.
• Manage tacking and untacking horses.
• Bathe, groom, feed, and exercise horses.
• Participate in upkeep of barn and stalls.
• Manage feeding of horses and preparing diets.
• Aid in medicating and husbandry of exotic and domestic animals (including lions, leopards, jaguars, black/brown/sun/moon bears, tigers, various birds/reptiles, livestock).
• Provide tours and presentations to guests and new volunteers, educating them about husbandry of exotic animals as well as conservation issues and the wildlife trafficking industry.
• Lead volunteers in weekly diet preparation, including supplements/vitamins, weighing and storing meat/produce, and storing diets for exotics (tigers, lions, jaguars, servals, leopards, and bears).
• Lead volunteers in care of livestock (emus, macaws, horses, donkeys, pigs), including exercise, shifting of habitats, diets, grooming, and maintenance of habitat.
• Aid keepers in shifting of wildlife to various habitats on property.
• Create an original enrichment activity for an exotic as well as educational materials to be utilized by the sanctuary moving forward.
• Complete and pass trainings such as exotic animal safety, sanctuary operations, and perimeter safety.
• Conducted informative and fact-based animal presentations to large groups of guests of all ages.
• Completed zoological training pertaining to various animals within the park.
• Maintained and enforced the safety of guests and animal exhibits throughout the park.
• Monitored guest and animal safety.
• Provided safe environment in and out of the pool for patrons and children taking lessons.
• Assisted in providing 400 SAW (Safety Around Water) classes and private lessons to ages 6mo to adulthood.
• Reported issues to Aquatic Director.
• Took a management role whenever Aquatic Director was not present. • Managed scheduling of staff each week.
• Responded to emergencies in the Y.
• Ran meetings with aquatic team.
• Aid in exercise of horses at the stable as well as at shows.
• Aid in medicating and feed of pigs, mules, horses, donkeys, and other livestock.
• Groom animals and maintain their living areas.
• Keep tack clean and organized as well as barn area.
• Bathe animals, braid and brush tails and manes, condition and shampoo manes and tails.
• Managed intake of dogs.
• Managed feeding and medication of 80+ large dogs.
• Basic cleaning and upkeep duties.
• Handled money exchange between trainer/hotel and patrons.
• Managed canine files and medical records.
• Communicated with veterinarians about canines medical history. • Aided groomer when necessary with bathing, brushing, and deshedding of dogs from 8 lbs to upwards of 150 pounds.
Emergency Animal Recall: Brown Bears and Polar Bears
Taxonomy and Systematics
Emergency Animal Recall: Brown Bears and Polar Bears
Taxonomy and Systematics