Zoo careers Flashcards
Zoo director job description
- Short and long range planning for zoo.
- Community relations and fundraising
- Budget development and management
- Hiring and direct supervision of management level employees
- Oversight of standards, procedures, etc. for employee groups
Curatorial staff
For all or part of the animal collection:
– Directly responsible for collection plan, animal accusations and depositions, conservation and research
– Hiring an oversight of training, scheduling, and management of animal Carestaff
– Inspection and management to assure all areas of appropriate animal care
-Public relations
-Responsible for budgetary management for portion of facility
Zoo dietitian
Maintain the nutritional health of the zoological collection by:
- Preparation of food and medications
- Clean and maintain it assigned area
- Maintain proper inventory level of food items and supplies
- Maintain records of animal diets and performs basic bookkeeping function
- Responsible for diet menus food preparation regulations and procedures
- Takes in consideration input from the zoo veterinarian zookeepers another zoos in order to meet dietary and nutritional needs of the collection
Zookeepers
Provide care for animals to the performance of specific duties in: feeding, cleaning, and general husbandry of live animal collections
Responsible for essential functions, observes animals and exhibits, records animal behavior, reports information on reports, prepares diets, medicates animals as needed, performs maintenance on the facility
Zoo veterinarian
Essential duties are: to plan, direct and execute comprehensive animal health programs for the zoo.
This includes treatment, surgery for all living collections
Essential functions include: monitoring the general health and well-being of the animals,
-developing solutions to medical problems, diagnosing and treating Injured or Sick animals,
- providing pathology services for the animal collections,
- managing and health care units at the zoo,
Veterinary technicians
To assist the better Narry and medicine surgery and preventative medicine programs at the zoo. Essential functions of this position are to perform routine and diagnostic laboratory testing duties to assist in medical procedures. The salsa do administrative related functions such as record keeping and inventory.
Education director
Development and oversight of educational plans and goals development of educational programs materials.
- Designing continent exhibit interpretation. Management of the library. Budget management.
- Hiring training and scheduling and supervision of volunteer managers educators. –Development and management of relationships the schools and agencies.
Volunteer managers
Development and leadership of volunteer programs. Recruitment training scheduling and supervision and find your core or docents.
Four critical aspects of any conservation education program are?
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The difference between marketing and public relationships is?
marketing: advertising and outreach
Public Relations: social networking, press release, marketing media relationships, involving appropriated staff
Horticulturalist job description
Advise on animal exhibit in landscape development. Manage landscapes in exhibit in visitor areas – develop browsing plans for enrichment – assist zookeepers in identifying toxic plants – establish and maintain plant collections to capture interested zoo visitors – play conservation – consuming education programs – composting
Security team
– Develops and manages safety and security plan for zoo – safe work environment – emergency plans and drills – emergency communications – crowd control – security systems – liaison with outside agencies
Facilities/operations team
Potential areas of responsibility may include:
– horticulture
– water quality Management
– exhibit design
– zoo safety and security
– design construction and maintenance of exhibit facilities and equipment
