Benefits:

Competitive salary

Free uniforms

Austin Wildlife Rescue is hiring full-time Seasonal Animal Care Technicians to work through the end of October, with the potential to stay on beyond October based on job performance. Technicians work directly with a variety of native Texas wildlife, including mammals, birds and reptiles.

Job Location:

• Rehabilitation Center 111 Elbow Bend, Elgin, TX 78621

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Cleaning cages
• Feeding animals
• Administering medications
• Maintaining care plans for injured animals,
• Providing direction/guidance to interns and volunteers
• Assisting the public with animals they bring to our facility. ** This is a very physical job that requires a lot of movement and lifting.

Vaccinations:

• Proof of Tetanus vaccine within the last 10 years is REQUIRED.
• Two rabies pre-exposure vaccines are OPTIONAL for seasonal staff positions and are at the cost of the Employee, at an average price of $345 per shot. Employees who get the rabies vaccinations within three weeks of hire will receive $18.00/hour. Employees who do not get the rabies vaccinations will receive $16.00/hour.

Benefits/Perks:

• Paid sick-time off
• AWR staff t-shirts provided **Hands-on experience working with amazing native Texas wildlife

*About Austin Wildlife Rescue: The mission of Austin Wildlife Rescue is to rehabilitate and release orphaned, injured, and sick wild animals and to educate the public to coexist with wildlife. We accept native Texas wildlife into our care. Our Intake location is in Austin. There we take in the majority of the animals in our care, over 9,000 per year! Our Rehabilitation Facility is located in Elgin, which is where the animals are transported to and stay until they are ready to be released.