03 févr. 2025
Mauritian Wildlife Foundation
Animal Carer at Black River’s Gerald Durrell Endemic Wildlife Sanctuary
Job Brief Main responsibilities:
- Feeding and maintaining animals held in captivity: Ensuring that animals are fed appropriate diets and providing general care and maintenance.
- Handling, measuring, tagging of animals.
- Evaluating and monitoring animals: Regularly observing and recording animal behaviour, health, and well-being and providing necessary care in case of injury or diseases.
- Caring for sick or injured animals: Administering treatments, medications, or provide supportive care. Habitat enhancement to improve the living conditions and welfare of animals.
- Assisting in captive breeding programs, which may involve monitoring breeding behaviour, maintaining breeding records, and ensuring appropriate conditions for successful reproduction.
- Hand-rearing and nurturing young animals that require special care, socialising, and monitoring.
- Collecting and accurately recording data related to above mentioned activities.
- Providing support and assistance at other field sites operated by the organization, which may involve similar tasks related to animal care and conservation.
Requirements:
- Mauritian of at least 24 years old.
- SC as Minimum qualification with experience: HSC is preferred.
- Resides in Black River, Tamarin or surrounds will be a significant advantage.
- Passionate about animals.
- Prior experience will be a plus.
- Ability to work effectively in teams and independently.
- Physically active and can work outdoors in all conditions.
- Ready to work on roster system for weekends.
- Having a driving licence will be an advantage.
- Good interpersonal, professional and communication skills.
- Strong observation and practical skills
- Basic computer literacy
- Not colour blind.
Location:
- Black River Gerald Durrell Endemic Wildlife Sanctuary (GDEWS)
Recruitment and selection process:
- After reviewing applications, only shortlisted applicants with desired qualifications will be contacted via email.
- To apply: Please fill in the form to apply https://forms.office.com/r/17gBiNyqzm and send a cover letter and your CV to the HR Department, please mention the job title (Animal Carer) & the job reference (GDEWS2024) and send it to HR on given email address. Call on 6976097 if required.
- Deadline: 26 April 2025
Further details on website https://www.mauritian-wildlife.org/jobs