Assistant Wildlife
Supervisor
Green Dragon Rare
Breeds Farm
& Eco Centre
Claydon Rd, Hogshaw,
Bucks, MK18
3LA
01296 670444
Assistant Wildlife
Supervisor
Full-time Position –
42.5hr / week
£18500 / annum
This is a full-time
position, 5 days out of 7, including weekends, bank holidays and school
holidays.
Green Dragon Rare
Breeds Farm & Eco Centre is an open farm and visitor attraction. We pride
ourselves on sustainability and promoting a Green approach to living. We are
self-sustaining and Eco with our energy production, water management, sewerage
management, and our ‘farm to folk’ philosophy.
We have only been
fully operational for nearly 4 years and we already have a loyal following of
supporters and visitors. We are growing fast and are looking for forward
thinking, motivated, creative and hardworking individuals to help us achieve
our mission.
This is an exciting
opportunity for someone to join our team at a time when our Wildlife offering
is developing. We have already expanded our pets corner to include exotic pets,
we already have our first owls and Reindeer. We have now started the construction
of our new Wildlife zone which will house a variety of native and European
species focusing on conservation, rescue and education.
This new area of the
Park will be 5 acres and house reindeer, fallow deer, Native Raptors and other
Bird species, Native mammals including Scottish Wildcat, Red Foxes, Red
squirrel just to name a few. We will also be looking at European OR extinct
Native species such European Lynx. There will be some invasive species
representatives such as Bennetts Wallaby and some smaller deer species too.
All species chosen
will tell their own educational story to our visitors and our schools as
ambassadors for nature and the natural world.
These are just the species that we have chosen
so far, there is still lots of other habitats and enclosures that have not been
allocated to species to provide flexibility for native rescue, rehabilitation
or release projects.
Our new facilities
are vast in size and designed in a natural way, with the animals needs and
natural behaviours at the fore front of all our decision making.
Reporting to the
Live-stock supervisor & General Manager.
The successful
application will have:
• Excellent
presentation skills are essential;
• Must
be outgoing, charismatic and have a confident enthusiastic personality;
• Must
be organised, self-motivated with good interpersonal skills;
• Motivated
individual who can work alone and as part of a team;
• Have
a proven record with outstanding customer service
The successful
applicant will be expected to:
• Deliver
entertaining, exciting and educational public presentations;
• Assist
in the organisation of farm/Wildlife events;
• Practically
work on the livestock department as required;
Necessary skills
required:
• Knowledge
of wildlife and conservation;
• Practical
Animal Handling experience with the animals listed above.
• Proven
record with animal training and positive reinforcement training methods.
• DMZAA
or equivalent in a relevant discipline;
• Minimum
5 years employed practical experience within a Zoological organisation;
• Experience
of running a small animal department and small team;
• Experience
of Microsoft excel, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint;
• Experience
of Zoo licencing standards;
• Experience
of animal recording systems and standards;
• Flexible
approach to work and able to work under pressure;
• Excellent
written English;
• Excellent
creative writing skills;
• Full
driving license;
We ask that the
successful candidate has their own transport to and from work, be punctual and
flexible with working hours and is willing to relocate.
Please mark any
email correspondence FAO:
Jay Wood (General
Manager) and include a CV with your covering letter.
Email:
hr@greendragonecofarm.co.uk
Post open until
filled.
Peter Dickinson
Independent International Zoo Consultant        |
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