Facility

Denver Zoo

Closing Date

Description

Denver Zoo is a leader in animal care, wildlife conservation, education, and guest experience. We are passionate about our commitment to excellence in support of our mission to secure a better world for animals through human understanding. We provide extraordinary experiences every day for our animals and visitors and our core values of Protect, Honor, Innovate, Serve, Engage, and Empower are evident in everything we do. We value the different strengths our staff bring to Denver Zoo. We expect our staff to embrace and to commit to our core behaviors for engagement: Passion, Respect, Innovation, Diversity, and Excellence.
Denver Zoo’s Animal Care & Conservation Department has an opportunity for a full time Animal Ambassadors Zookeeper, who will ensure safe and innovative exhibition, handling, training and husbandry of ambassador animal species at the zoo. This position advances Denver Zoo’s mission and goals by assisting in the daily operations of the Animal Ambassador Collection of live animals including husbandry for a variety of taxonomic areas including invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals. The position also participates in presentations, and training staff and volunteers on animal handling. Programming in this area includes onsite and offsite educational and guest experiences, free flight and other behavior based demonstrations, special events, and media appearances.

Education and Pre-requisites

Not specified.

Compensation and benefits

Not specified.

Application instructions

Completed applications must be submitted by July 18, 2018
Denver Zoo reserves the right to close the position prior to the above date.
Denver Zoo is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Please apply through www.denverzoo.org