Assistant Head of
Department – Animals
Curator of Birds
Full-Time Position
Salary £25,620
A unique position
has arisen within the Animal Team at Bristol Zoological Society to provide
assistance to the Senior Curator in addition to holding curatorial
responsibility for the Bird Team.
The successful
candidate’s main responsibility will be to support the Senior Curator in the
day-to-day management of the animal department as well as managing the daily
operations of the Bird section and animal food stores.
To be successful in
this role you will be able to demonstrate significant experience of delivering
high standards of animal care and welfare in a multi species animal collection,
together with specialist curatorial responsibilities for a bird collection.
You will have a
relevant animal husbandry or biological science qualification and experience of
managing a team of people including producing efficient staffing rosters in a
7-day/week working environment.
This is a full time
position working 37.5 hours per week as part of the departmental 7 day roster,
which will include weekends Bank Holidays and some evenings.
For further
information about this position please see the Job Description at http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/zoo-information/jobs.
Closing date for
this position is 21st February 2016
Applications should
be made by forwarding a C.V and covering letter to hr@bristolzoo.org.uk Please
state ‘Assistant HOD – Animals’ in the subject line of the email.
Please mention ZooNews Digest should you apply for this post
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