Animal Services Officer

City of Jacksonville

Job Description

This is technical work in enforcing animal care and control laws, involving the apprehension of stray, free roaming, injured, and diseased animals; investigation of animal cruelty complaints; issuance of warning notices and citations; educating the public; and performance of clerical related duties. Work requires knowledge of the applicable laws, techniques, methods, and procedures used in animal code enforcement, animal capture, restraint, and care which involve the use of specialized skills and equipment, which are learned on the job or through specialized training.

Work schedule involves weekend, subject to on-call and call-out assignments, and/or rotating shifts. Contacts with others require skills in understanding and influencing people and are important in providing services. Skills of persuasiveness, assertiveness, and sensitivity to others point of view are often required to influence behavior, change an opinion, or turn a situation around. The work is semi-routine in that tasks are covered by procedures or precedents, but some latitude is permitted to consider the most appropriate technique, method, or procedure to follow.

The work involves differing situations requiring use of judgment in search for solutions or new applications within ones' known experiences. Work is performed primarily in the field and limited office environments, where there are some risks and hazards due to the handling of vicious, ill, infectious, and rabid animals but the hazards are known, somewhat predictable and mostly controllable. Operates standard office equipment such as personal computer, two-way radio, euthanasia equipment, digital camera, animal capture and microchip scanning equipment. Operates a motor vehicle.

This is a full time job