As our current shelter coordinator is leaving Thailand, we are looking for a pro-active, motivated, and reliable person to join the Care for Dogs team on a salaried basis.

If you or someone you know might be interested in this job, please get in touch.

Below you can read 2 descriptions of the same job. The first a summary and the second more detailed.

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Summary

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The main responsibilities include:

• Organizing and taking part in medical care, vaccinations etc. at the shelter
• Organizing vet trips for medical checks and sterilizations
• Responsible for purchase of food, medicine, and shelter supplies
• Volunteer coordination
• Adoption appointments
• Shelter introduction to visitors
• Updating of medical records and shelter list
• Organizing school visits
• Responsible for 3 shelter staff

People from different professional backgrounds can be considered for this position, but the following requirements should be fulfilled:

• Organization skills
• People-, communication- and motivation skills
• Fluent in English and Thai
• “Hands on” personality
• Must love dogs
• Medical experience with animals an advantage

Detailed

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The Shelter Coordinator is responsible for the organization of a smooth shelter operation including sterilisations, health care, adoptions, staff, volunteers, and finances within the agreed targets.

Areas of responsibility

Medical care

• Supervise medical care
  • Tablet and liquid medicine
  • Medication for eyes and ears
  • Mange treatment (Ivermectin)
  • Wound dressings
  • After care of operation wounds
  • Special bathing (skin problems)
  • Checking recovery of sick or injured dogs
• Decide / arrange dogs for vet run
• Prepare all medicine and delegate to staff
• Prepare dogs for sterilization before and on operation day
• Arrange stitch removal for operated and sterilised dogs
• Attend to local villagers who bring in sick or injured pets
• Maintain / update healthcare whiteboard and bathing + adoption whiteboards
• Record, supervise / do preventative health care (Spot on, spraying, deworming, heartworm prevention, vaccinations)
• Record / up-date medical records

Purchase

• Maintain stock levels of medicine / preventive health care / shelter supplies

Staff

• Oversee staff at shelter in all duties: cleaning, feeding, medications, garden, repair and renovation
• Organizing renovation projects in cooperation with supervisor and monitoring repair projects with staff

Volunteers

• Coordination and introduction of volunteers at the shelter

Visitors / Adoptions

• Shelter introduction to visitors
• Adoption appointments
• Organize shelter + volunteers for education school group visits to shelter

General Organization

• Responsible for keeping costs within agreed financial budget
• Responsible for keeping dog numbers within agreed target in cooperation with supervisor
• Decide / arrange dogs for return to original place after sterilisation or medical care in cooperation with supervisor
• Deciding about location of dogs in shelter, i.e. in enclosures, due to medical or behaviour issues

If you are interested, kindly send us your application in English with a detailed resume (incl. qualifications + work experience), current and expected salary, photo, and contact details to Karin contact@carefordogs.org

This in Thai