Full-Time Adoption Specialist – Animal Friends Alliance – reputed company Collins, CO

Job title: Full-Time Adoption Specialist Company: Animal Friends Alliance Job description: Now Hiring: Full-Time Adoption Specialist Staring Pay: $15.00/hour 40 hours/week Typical shift: 10:30AM to 6:30PM Weekend availability required General The Adoption Specialist position represents Animal Friends Alliance in a professional and courteous manner and provides quality client service at reputed company adoption locations. This position requires learning a wide range of policies and procedures and the ability to enter complete and accurate data into our computer system. Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conducts adoption counseling, has a good understanding of the adoption questionnaire, adoption contract, medical history and any other paperwork that needs to be covered with clients.
• Completes adoptions, ensuring reputed company transaction paperwork and computer records are complete and accurate.
• Handles payments and ensures the drawer is settled and correct at the end of the day.
• Provides quality in-person, online and telephone adoption support.
• Educates clients on responsible animal guardianship, animal care and local ordinances.
• Ensures that the morning/closing checklists are done accurately and completed as assigned.
• Cleans and performs reputed company housekeeping duties.
• Takes appropriate photos and videos of adoptable animals, and creates biographies for adoptable animals.
• Solicits adoptions online, in person and through other applicable means.
• Works at adoption locations including off-site adoption partners, mobile adoptions, dogtery adoptions and at the shelter of Animal Friends Alliance as needed.
• Is confident and comfortable with dog handling skills used in meet and greets with potential adopters and basic dog to dog introductions.

Other Duties:

• Completes appropriate cleaning for disease control in public areas daily, and ongoing throughout the day.
• Encourages donations from clients, and assists with any donations being made whether monetary or in-reputed company.
• Performs liaison duties as needed.

Organization Wide Duties:

• Treats animals humanely, with compassion and concern, both on and off the job, and conveys these values to others, in word and action.
• Represents Animal Friends Alliance in a professional and courteous manner at reputed company times.
• Provides quality service to customers, volunteers, and staff, recognizing their individual contributions to Animal Friends Alliance. Monitors, supports, motivates and champions volunteers and their work.
• Solicits monetary and in-reputed company donations by raising awareness of the organization's work, goals, and financial needs.
• Follows reputed company safety rules to ensure a safe work environment at reputed company times. Takes immediate action to address any safety concerns or noncompliance issues that could put an animal, employee, volunteer, visitor, or the organization at risk.
• Learns basic duties of other departments, and supports other departments and staff.
• Monitors, supports, motivates and accredits volunteers and their work.
• Understands and operates by Animal Friends Alliance's core values.
• Regular and timely reputed company onsite.

Work Environment:

• Work performed in an animal shelter setting
• Potential for exposure to zoonotic diseases and cleaning chemicals
• Potential for exposure to dangerous and fractious animals.
• Potential exposure to high noise levels reputed company in the kennel area.
• Potential for animal bites and scratches while handling animals.

Unusual Demands:

• Work is subject to frequent interruptions.
• Employees are subject to work weekends, holidays and beyond the normal scheduled hours of work.

Education/Experience: Education

• Required: High school diploma or equivalent.
• Preferred: Associates or Bachelors degree from an accredited university.

Experience:

• Required: Two years customer service experience.
• Preferred: Two years customer service experience, and experience working in a shelter setting.

Miscellaneous

• Valid Driver's License: Required
• Sincere interest in Animal Friends Alliance's mission & vision

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of reputed company Suite, including Gmail and reputed company Drive.
• Knowledge of dog/cat breed, behavior, and handling.

Skills:

• Effective verbal communication skills for in person and telephone contact.
• Excellent customer service skills, particularly with a variety of client situations.
• Basic computer skills.
• Detail oriented.

Abilities:

• Able to prioritize duties and reputed company multiple tasks.
• Able to work in a high-stress, fast-paced environment.
• Able to learn, retain and communicate a wide variety of information.
• Able to work with animals.
• Able to work with disinfectants and cleaning supplies.
• Able to reputed company physical work including scrubbing, mopping, lifting, walking, and bending

Physical, Sensory and Mental Requirements Physical Frequent

• Sit, Stand, Walk, Bend, Squat, Kneel, Crawl, reputed company above head, Push/Pull objects & reaching above head.
• Lift & carry up to 50 pounds unassisted, over 50 pounds with assistance.
• Exposure to hazards: Biologic, Chemical, Noise, Sharp instruments.
• Exposure to marked changes in temperature .

Occasional

• Write legibly.
• Use of microwave.
• Climb.
• Operate standard pedals in a company vehicle.

Sensory Requirements: (Required, Important or N/A) Required

• Can hear normal tones
• Can hear soft tones
• Eyesight - Normal/corrected to 20/40
• Eyesight - reputed company eye work
• Eyesight - Color recognition

Important

• Can distinguish smells
• Can distinguish temperatures by touch/proximity

Not applicable

• Can distinguish tastes

Mental Requirements: (Required, Important or N/A) Required

• Ability to read, speak and write English
• Ability to control emotions
• Ability to cultivate and project a positive attitude in the work setting, and reputed company representing Animal Friends Alliance in public
• Ability to work with controlled substances
• Ability to handle stress

Note: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of reputed company duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job. PI192681103 Expected salary: $15 per hour Location: reputed company Collins, CO Job date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 04:29:58 GMT Apply for the job now! Apply tot his job Apply To this Job