Animal Control Officer Position Available In Fulton, Georgia
Tallo's Job Summary: Fulton County Animal Service Officers ensure a safe community environment for humans and animals. Responsibilities include responding to animal-related dispatches, enforcing statutes, and working with various teams. This role involves picking up stray animals, enforcing laws, educating citizens, and collaborating with veterinarians. Shifts may vary, including stand-by or call-out service.
Job Description
LifeLine Animal Project is committed to the care and welfare of pets and the people who love them. The values we exhibit as an organization show the strength of our staff, our leadership and our community. We expect all employees to exhibit LifeLines core values as we complete daily tasks, provide services to clients and care for our animals.
Fulton County Animal Service Officers work to ensure a safe and harmonious environment for both human and animal residents of the community. They respond to dispatches to provide animal rescue, municipal and public assistance with animal-related situations and enforcement of state and local statutes as outlined in Lifelines contracts with Fulton County and several of the countys municipalities. This positions shift varies and is subject to stand-by or call-out service (after hours).
Essential Job Functions:
This represents a list of essential job duties. Other duties or special projects may be assigned as needed.
Uphold the standards and values of
LifeLine Animal Project:
•Save Lives Build Community Be Compassionate Be Exceptional Stewards Take Responsibility Be Courageous Respect, Embrace and Celebrate Diversity•Report to the Animal Control Supervisor and serve as a member of the animal care and control team.
Work closely with the intake coordinator, impoundment, dispatch and animal care team to ensure correct intake data is given and that animals are accurately identified, recorded, and placed in kennels.
Interact daily with veterinarians, clinic technicians, volunteers, the general public, and law enforcement.
Pick up and remove stray, injured, unwanted, diseased, neglected or abused animals.
Responsible for animal welfare and proper confinement or disposition.
Work with veterinarians and citizens in quarantine of suspected diseased animals.
Respond to citizen complaints and investigate alleged violations of animal laws and regulatory ordinances.
Educate citizens about services, resources, laws and regulations relating to the control, confinement, vaccination, adoption, shelter, and care of animals.
Patrol assigned areas to catch, handle, restrain, confine, transport and impound stray, injured, unwanted, diseased, neglected or abused animals using specialized equipment, methods and techniques.[]{style=”color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Calibri”}
