Head Elephant Keeper
Position available:
elephant head keeper
Zoo Osnabrück offers
the position of the elephant head keeper starting spring 2017.
Our institution has
got a long tradition of elephant maintenance, starting protected contact as one
of the first zoos in Europe back in 2002, gaining experience over the years.
Zoo Osnabrück has
taken the challenge of housing a fully adult 6to proven breeder together with 4
bachelors 3-8 years old and prove that this social unit can work very well with
the individuals taking part in that experiment, thus providing new opportunities
for creating bachelor groups of elephant males including all age classes.
Elephants are trained using positive reinforcement. A20-h- forage –system is
being installed right now.
Osnabrück zoo now
changes from bachelor holding to reproduction in the future by taking over a
matriline within the EEP transfer recommendations in spring 2017.
We are looking for
an elephant head keeper who ideally has got experience in:
- Elephant daily
maintenance and reproduction within a team of several colleagues
- Excellent social
skills in leading his team cooperatively
- at least 5years of
experience in an elephant keeper team, preferably in a leading or deputy
position.
- His own way of
empathically training his elephants by positive reinforcement for all relevant
procedures/ medical treatments in protected contact.
- Sufficient
experience in all obstetrically relevant situations pre, in and post partum
- Knowledge about
elephant pediatrics by accompanying elephant babies during their development
from birth to childhood.
- Knowledge how to
manage elephants during anesthesia/sedation/ transportation.
- Education and
training of young colleagues
- Dedication to
zoo education such as "keeper’s talk“
- Tenure/carrier
featuring permanent learning and optimizing his professional skills
We offer
- A position
valuated as EG 6 TVÖD- Tarif Germany with full-time contract (39h/week; average
2 weekend duties ; 30 holidays p.a), becoming unlimited in case of mutual
consent after an orientation period of 2 years.
- A trustful, very
close and regular cooperation in partnership with permanent back up by our zoo
biological team (elephant manager, zoo vet, technician, zoologist, zoo
director).
- The opportunity to
become carefully introduced to the elephants and integrated in our staff by
working on par together with the present head keeper until his retirement in
2018.
- The opportunity to
find and form his new team due to two more open positions for elephant keepers
to be announced in 2018/2019.
- Opportunities for
further education
- Excellent living
conditions downtown or in the beautiful surroundings of one of Germany’s most
prefered cities.
Applications in PDF
format including detailed c.v. and motivation are accepted until March 1 2017,
to be sent to franek@zoo-osnabrueck.de
Peter Dickinson
Independent International Zoo Consultant        |
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