Senior Living Collection Keeper
Closing Date: 19/01/2025
Salary: £24,405.00 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent
About The Role
Our client is looking for a proactive individual to manage the day-to-day operation of their collection of birds, ensuring the highest welfare standards.
You will work as part of a team of colleagues and volunteers to routinely meet and exceed both company and zoo licence standards across all areas of the department. Working in cooperation with the Grounds & Facilities Manager, you will maintain the highest visitor standards and experience throughout the collection area.
Duties will include the daily feeding, husbandry and welfare of the living collection, including enclosure maintenance. You will also play a key part in engaging visitors with the collection species, and wider conservation work, through the delivery of walks and talks.
This is a full-time position working 37.5 hours per week, 5 days from 7.
About You
To join as a Senior Living Collection Keeper, you’ll bring:
- Previous animal husbandry experience, especially within aviculture
- Proven experience of supervising and motivating employees and/or volunteers
- Practical maintenance skills, including operation of grounds machinery and equipment
- Great communication skills and the drive to achieve inspiring and engaging visitor experiences within the collection
If this sounds like you then click apply. Our client would love to hear from you.
The Organisation
Our client is on a mission to restore super-powered ecosystems. There’s never been a more important moment for their work, and they’ve got some phenomenal people on the case.
Whether they’re taking a new visitor under their wing, or conducting ground-breaking research further afield, their team are second to none. And there’s nothing they love more than watching them soar.
Why you’ll love working with our client
- Wake up every day knowing that your work is helping to restore nature, and the world
- Be surrounded and inspired by a team of passionate, dedicated people
- 33 days' annual leave (which goes up to 38 days after 5 years of service) – this includes bank holidays, and you have flexibility to take those days whenever you want
- Free entry to all their centres, including your family
- Free car parking and secure bike storage areas
- Colleague discount on shopping and memberships
- Cycle to work scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life Assurance of three times your salary, for peace of mind for your loved ones
- Independent personal, workplace and financial advice from Care First
Our client is an equal opportunities employer, and all applications will be considered solely on merit.