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Canine Enrichment Officer Level 1

Animal Welfare League of South Australia Inc
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Are you passionate about animal welfare and looking for a way to support animals in need and give back to the community? AWL’s volunteers play a crucial role in our everyday operations. Their support and dedication helps us find happy homes for lost or abandoned pets, reunite pets and their families and foster animals in their homes.

AWL is currently recruiting Canine Enrichment Officers to support our dogs and provide them with enrichment, attention, comfort and socialization. If you’d like to spend time with dogs in our care inside their kennels, make them tasty treats and ultimately help on their journey to adoption then please fill out an application!

If you are looking for a rewarding voluntary opportunity to help animal in need, we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for a volunteer with the following skills, abilities and experience to fill this volunteer role:

• Strong interest in working with animals • High level of commitment and reliability • Ability and willingness to attend appropriate training as required • Excellent communication skills • Ability to work effectively as part of a team • Proven reliability and punctuality • A positive, can do attitude • Animal handling skills • Dog training skills • Able to work with minimal supervision but also able to follow direction and work in a small team

Duties include: The Volunteer Enrichment Officer (Level One) will work in the animal pens and will be able to: • Provide dogs and puppies with appropriate social interaction and appropriate toy play • Provide dogs and puppies with mental enrichment, stimulating all the senses • Assist with the shelter enrichment programs • Observe and react appropriately to dog body language • Maintain enrichment tools, e.g. fill Kongs, provide snuffle mats, enrichment boxes, etc to appropriate animals • Use positive reinforcement to encourage appropriate behaviors • Handle animals using fear free handling and interaction

You can not apply for this role as it is no longer available.