Animal Presentations Keeper
Chessington
World of Adventures
As a member
of our Animal Presentations team you will be responsible for the daily
husbandry of the animals on the section including cleaning, diet preparation,
record keeping and enclosure redesign. Other duties will include planning,
evaluating and executing environmental enrichment for the animals under your
care and delivering first-class animal presentations, shows, meet and greets,
commercial activities and memorable experiences to our Adventurers. You will be
required to use positive reinforcement to train a wide variety of species, with
a focus on sealions, for husbandry, guest interactions and presentations. To
excel in this role you will need good initiative to come up with new ideas to
help move the section forward and to increase revenue and minimise costs,
whilst maintaining excellent standards.
As a member
of the Animal Presentations team you will be required to work alongside the
wider zoo team as well as employees from all over the resort and mentor, coach
and supervise work-experience students and interns.
We are
looking for the following skills and experience;
- Extensive practical experience
working with a wide range of species, marine mammal experience is
necessary for this role
- Exceptional presentation skills
- The ability & passion to
interact with the public
- Enthusiasm to learn &
develop in the role
- Good level of understanding of
animal behaviour and the care of animals
- Experience in training new
behaviours from scratch using positive reinforcement
- Strong communication &
computer skills
- Efficient time management and
organisational skills
This role is
permanent working full time 40 hours; 5 days out of 7. Shifts include weekdays,
weekends & bank holidays; flexibility is required to meet the needs of the
business.
Alongside a
competitive annual salary and 28 days holiday you can look forward to enjoying
a great benefits package including a Group Personal Pension Plan, Merlin
Magic pass, Employee Assistance Programme, Childcare Vouchers, Life Assurance,
25% discount in our retail shops and restaurants, 40% discount online off of
LEGO, and much more!
Please use
the link to apply via our Merlin Careers site:
Contact me? See below.
This vacancy has been posted out to the many thousands who read the popular Zoo Jobs Blog Page and then on to the 129,300 plus followers of the ZooNews Digest Facebook Page. It is then immediately forwarded on to Twitter and then to Pinterest and Linkedin (7,900+ connections). Many vacancies are shared to individuals and groups. In short your vacancy will have the potential of reaching something in the region of some 80,000 plus people within 24 hours. Most of these people are working in a zoo environment, Keepers, Curators, Vets, Zoo Directors, Trainers, Aquarists and more.
ZooNews Digest has subscribers in over 1200 Zoos in 150+ countries. Zoo professionals are International.
The number of people who will actually read the posted vacancy will actually be considerably less. Usually this will be between two hundred and three thousand. This will depend on the type of post, the time of the year and where it is located…of course not all will apply. I wish you the very best of luck in finding the right candidate for your post.
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