Primary Responsibilities:

• Coordinate care of assistance puppies and dogs in training at PAALS, at volunteer homes, and in prison environments

• Coordinate general dog health care, grooming, nutrition and veterinary visits to ensure correct and consistent care for husbandry and handling of the assistance pups and dogs in training

• Assist with inventory tracking and data entry for animals in training

• Assist to keep animal areas clean, including kennel areas and yard sanitation maintenance

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Assists volunteers who work with animal care and training

• Assists with transport of puppies and dogs as needed in personal vehicle and/or in PAALS vehicle

• Timely computer record maintenance, phone correspondence, and email communication, and administrative task completion as requested

• Assist in special events, programs and presentations as requested

Qualifications

• Six months related experience, prefer experience in a similar assistance dog organization

• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal

• Ability to multi-task

• Clean driving recordBackground check

Physical Demands/Environment:

• Must be physically active and able to work both indoors and outdoors.

• Must be able to frequently kneel, crouch, crawl, stand and bend to perform cleaning of crates and care of dogs.

• Must be able to use hands, arms, shoulders in legs to assist with cleaning of the environments both indoor and outdoor, care of dogs, and typing on keyboards.

• Work in proximity to cleaning agents and disinfectants and must be able to follow instructions for the use and storage of these chemicals.

• Lift and move up to 50 pounds of dog and dog food