To operate the Inyo County Animal Control Shelter and to perform related duties as assigned. Under supervision, shelter attendant is responsible for maintaining the health and welfare of all animals impounded at the Inyo County Animal Shelter, located in Big Pine. Incumbent in the position reports directly to the Animal Control Supervisor.
Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Maintains a healthy atmosphere by cleaning up after and feeding all impounded animals on a daily basis
- Uses chemical cleaning agents
- Meets and answers questions from the public
- Issues citations
- Issues dog and kennel licenses
- Collects and records fees and fines
- Impounds and releases animals
- Vaccinates animals as needed
- Keeps records
- Adopts animals to qualified homes, in the prescribed manner
- Maintains supplies
- Posts signs and issues pamphlets and flyers for public notice
- Works with volunteers
- Works alone under unusual conditions, including weekends and holidays
EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE:
- High school graduate or equivalent
- Experience in the care and handling of animals
KNOWLEDGE OF:
- Federal, State, and County laws, statutes, and ordinances related to the control, protection, licensing, and impounding
- Affiliated agencies and their functions
- Legal liabilities
- Animal capture and restraint techniques
- Symptoms and control of rabies and other common animal disease
- Laws, procedures, and reporting requirements for rabies control
- Public health functions in a rabies epidemic area
- General safety practices and requirements
- Emergency first aid techniques
- Basic mathematics
ABILITY TO:- Learn to interpret and apply laws, rules, ordinances, and policies regarding the control, protection, licensing, quarantine, impounding, and care of animals
- Safely handle animals to avoid injury to persons or animals
- Administer emergency first aid
- Recognize normal and abnormal animal behavior
- Tolerate animal noises, odors, and behavior
- Exercise patience, care, and compassion in dealing with animals
- Recognize symptoms of rabies and other animal diseases
- Perform duties in a manner ensuring a safe working environment for self and others
- Understand and carry out oral and written instructions
- Express ideas clearly orally and in writing
- Maintain records, logs, statistics, and filing systems
- Meet deadlines
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Exercise tact, self-restraint, good judgment, courtesy, firmness, impartiality, and persuasion while discharging assigned duties
- Function appropriately under stressful and/or confrontational situations
- Interact with persons at all organizational levels
- Provide clear and satisfactory explanations to questions
- Identify and define problems and possible solutions
- Maintain confidentiality
- Work cooperatively with those contacted in the course of work
- Must have ability to stand, walk, kneel, crouch, stoop, squat, twist, climb, and lift and carry up to 75 pounds
- Must have ability to reach and lift above shoulder level and work in a wet environment
- Must have ability to tolerate loud noises
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:- Must be available to work weekend and holiday hours
- Must use water and various cleaning solvents and chemicals in performance of duties
- You may be required to drive a motor vehicle in the course of employment and must possess a valid operator’s license issued by the State Department of Motor Vehicles
- Must successfully complete a pre-employment background investigation
- Must successfully pass pre-employment fingerprint scan
- Your position may be required to serve as a Disaster Service Worker during a County emergency
APPLICATION:
It is important that your application show all the relevant education and experience you possess. Applications may be rejected if incomplete. Beginning with your present or most recent job, show a complete record of your employment. Describe in detail any aspects of your experience or activities that are particularly appropriate for the position for which you are applying. You may not submit resume in lieu of completing the Employment Record fields. We will evaluate your qualifications based solely on the information entered into the Employment Record form.
It is not acceptable to complete the application with statements like “See/Refer to resume” or “See attached”.
IMPORTANT: If requesting Veteran's preference, you must attach a copy of your DD214 with your application
SELECTION:
Selection procedures will be determined by the number and qualifications of applicants and may include a qualification screening, written examination, and oral interview.
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH QUALIFYING DISABILITIES:
Inyo County will make reasonable efforts in the examination process on a case-by-case basis to accommodate persons with disabilities. If you have special needs, please contact (760) 878-0377 prior to the examination process.
CITIZENSHIP/IMMIGRATION STATUS:
Inyo County hires only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized non-citizens in accordance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
WORK LOCATION:
The County of Inyo has work sites located throughout the Owens Valley (Independence, Bishop, Lone Pine, Big Pine, and Olancha) and the Death Valley area (Death Valley, Tecopa, and Shoshone). All Inyo County positions are considered Countywide. Positions are assigned to a work site based upon the needs of the County. Positions may be temporarily or permanently reassigned to another work site as deemed necessary by the Department Head and/or County Administration.