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Animal Services Coordinator

City of Sacramento · Sacramento, CA · 1 mo ago
OTHRFull-time
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for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections with real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the posting and extract content. Let's identify sections: - About the role: maybe a brief description: "The Animal Services Coordinator oversees the shelter’s behavior programs and supports the placement of animals with rescue partners and other shelters. They serve as a behavior expert, ensuring all animals experience the Five Freedoms and receive appropriate behavior modification for identified challenges. The role includes developing and maintaining staff and volunteer training to promote humane animal care. Additionally, the coordinator assists in evaluating animals for euthanasia decisions, ensuring thoughtful and ethical outcomes." Also mention remote work eligibility: "With supervisor approval, incumbents may be eligible for intermittent remote work; however, they must physically reside within the Sacramento region or have the ability to regularly report to a City of Sacramento physical worksite with little notice." That could be part of About the role. - Responsibilities: list of duties. Many bullet points under "Essential Duties And Responsibilities". Also "Under general supervision, the Animal Services Coordinator organizes and coordinates a variety of community outreach activities..." etc. We need to extract those duties into
  • . - Requirements: maybe "Qualifications" section includes Knowledge, Skill In, Ability To, Experience and Training, etc. Could be split into Requirements (knowledge/experience) and Skills. But we have headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide what goes where. The posting has "Qualifications" heading with subparts: Knowledge of:, Skill In Providing..., Ability To..., Experience and Training, etc. Also "SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS: Driver License". Also "PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT". Also "PROBATIONARY PERIOD". Also "THE SELECTION PROCEDURE" (but that's application instructions, we should remove). Also "NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS". Also "DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS". Also "SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED". Also "IDEAL CANDIDATE STATEMENT". Also "THE POSITION". Also "THE POSITION" includes remote work note. We need to decide which sections to output. We should include sections that have substantive content: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine knowledge/experience), Qualifications (maybe special qualifications like driver license), Skills (maybe ability to...), Benefits/Pay/Schedule only if present. The posting does not mention benefits, pay, schedule explicitly. It mentions shift work, overtime may be required, work conditions (days, evenings, weekends, holidays). That's schedule info. So we could include Schedule section with that info. Benefits? Not mentioned. Pay? Not mentioned. So we omit Benefits and Pay. We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to ensure we don't create empty sections. Let's extract content. First, About the role: combine the opening paragraphs: "THE POSITION With supervisor approval, incumbents may be eligible for intermittent remote work; however, they must physically reside within the Sacramento region or have the ability to regularly report to a City of Sacramento physical worksite with little notice. The Animal Services Coordinator oversees the shelter’s behavior programs and supports the placement of animals with rescue partners and other shelters. They serve as a behavior expert, ensuring all animals experience the Five Freedoms and receive appropriate behavior modification for identified challenges. The role includes developing and maintaining staff and volunteer training to promote humane animal care. Additionally, the coordinator assists in evaluating animals for euthanasia decisions, ensuring thoughtful and ethical outcomes." Also maybe include "IDEAL CANDIDATE STATEMENT" as part of About the role? Could be separate but we could incorporate into About the role or Qualifications. The ideal candidate statement describes desired traits: hands-on experience with dogs and cats, willingness to learn other species, Applied Animal Behavior certifications or degrees encouraged, excel in customer service, strong networking abilities, comfortable delivering training, prepared to work in environment where euthanasia decisions occur, approach with professionalism, compassion, ethical judgment. That seems like qualifications/requirements. Could go under Requirements or Qualifications. We also have "DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS": "This classification is a responsible paraprofessional position involving the coordination and administration of the pet adoption, fostering and rescue programs at offsite locations." That's about role. "SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED": "Receives general supervision from assigned management staff. May exercise direct supervision over non-career staff and volunteers." That's about role. We could incorporate these into About the role or Responsibilities. Better to have sections: About the role (general description), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (knowledge, experience, training, special qualifications like driver license), Skills (abilities), Schedule (shift work, overtime, etc.) Let's extract Responsibilities list from "Essential Duties And Responsibilities". The list includes many items each starting with a verb. We'll put each as
  • . List: - Provide onsite and offsite animal coordination and oversight. - Confer, counsel and educate customers and volunteers on various pet breeds and City animal program policies and procedures. - Explain state and local laws and ordinances, departmental policies and procedures, and information regarding pet ownership, licensing, adoption, fostering, rescuing and/or other animal issues to members of the public. - Assist the public with animal adoption and fostering; collect information about animals and persons in accordance with department procedures; interview people and make decisions about the suitability for adoption, fostering, or volunteering. - Coordinate and/or direct the selection of animals, collect necessary equipment, and arrange for transportation to offsite locations. - Utilize appropriate websites, social media and other communication outlets to develop promotional campaigns regarding adopting, fostering and rescue programs, including activities and the need for volunteers and donations. - Update and create volunteer opportunities for offsite community events for distribution on the shelter's automated volunteer system. - Recruit, train and coordinate volunteer support for offsite community events. - Facilitate and train volunteers in the areas of customer service, adoption, fostering, counseling, and safe animal handling. - Assist in identifying grant and fundraising opportunities pertaining to adoption, fostering and rescuing. - Maintain records and statistics for all offsite events; monitor and report results for performance measures. - Collaborate with other agencies on jointly sponsored projects and services. - Assist in the preparation of reports for presentation to City commissions and committees; assist in the preparation of federal/state reports; maintain files and records. - Coordinate assigned activities and programs with other City departments and divisions, outside agencies, and service providers. - Participate in meetings with public groups, clubs, organizations and agencies to explain, promote services offered by the animal shelter; participate in, activities and programs that encourage community participation. - Build and maintain positive working relationships with co-workers, other City employees and the public using principles of good customer service. Also "NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Perform related duties as required." That's not essential; we could ignore or maybe include as a responsibility but it's generic. Probably ignore. Also earlier: "Under general supervision, the Animal Services Coordinator organizes and coordinates a variety of community outreach activities, events and programs in support of the City's animal shelter; oversees and coordinates adoptions, fostering and/or rescues; develops, plans and implements procedures to increase adoptions, fostering, and/or rescues; assists and educates families and volunteers on pet selection, pet care, and responsibilities; interviews families and volunteers who want to adopt or foster a pet; and works with other shelters and animal organizations to place animals in specialized care. Increases awareness of the animal programs within the community by utilizing media contacts, newspapers, and promotional events; works with business managers and private community leaders to schedule marketing events to support the programs and promotion of the animal shelter." These are also responsibilities; we could incorporate them into the list as well. We need to avoid duplication. We'll combine all duty statements into a single list. Let's compile all duty statements: From the paragraph after IDEAL CANDIDATE STATEMENT: - Organizes and coordinates a variety of community outreach activities, events and programs in support of the City's animal shelter. - Oversees and coordinates adoptions, fostering and/or rescues. - Develops, plans and implements procedures to increase adoptions, fostering, and/or rescues. - Assists and educates families and volunteers on pet selection, pet care, and responsibilities. - Interviews families and volunteers who want to adopt or foster a pet. - Works with other shelters and animal organizations to place animals in specialized care. - Increases awareness of the animal programs within the community by utilizing media contacts, newspapers, and promotional events. - Works with business managers and private community leaders to schedule marketing events to support the programs and promotion of the animal shelter. Then the Essential Duties list above. We'll combine them, ensuring no duplicates. Now Requirements: includes Knowledge of:, Skill In Providing..., Ability To..., Experience and Training, SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS: Driver License, PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT maybe part of Requirements or separate? Could be under Requirements. But we have separate headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to allocate. Maybe: - Requirements: Knowledge (list), Experience and Training (including substitution), Special Qualifications (Driver License), Physical Demands and Work Environment (maybe as part of Requirements or separate but we don't have a heading for Physical Demands; we could put under Requirements as well). - Qualifications: maybe Ideal Candidate Statement? Or we could treat Qualifications as the "Ideal Candidate Statement" content. - Skills: Ability To list (skills). Or we could treat Ability To as Skills. Let's decide: Section "Requirements": include Knowledge of:, Experience and Training, Special Qualifications (Driver License), Physical Demands and Work Environment. Section "Qualifications": include Ideal Candidate Statement (desired traits). Section "Skills": include Skill In Providing..., Ability To... (maybe combine skill and ability). But we have both Skill In and Ability To. Could combine under Skills. But we need to avoid duplication: Skill In Providing customer service, Modern office equipment etc. Ability To list includes many items. We'll put both under Skills. Now Schedule: includes shift work, overtime may be required, work conditions (days, evenings, weekends, holidays). Also mention Must perform shift work as assigned, including days, evenings, weekends, and holidays. Overtime may also be required. Also Physical Requirements (sit, stand, etc.) but that's more physical demands not schedule. We'll put schedule info under Schedule. Now Benefits and Pay: not present, omit. Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like "PROBATIONARY PERIOD", "THE SELECTION PROCEDURE", "Application:", etc. Remove those. Also remove "DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS", "SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED" maybe we incorporated into About the role. We need to preserve all substantive information; we must not lose any important details. Let's ensure we capture all key info: - Remote work eligibility note. - Role description: oversee behavior programs, support placement, behavior expert, Five Freedoms, behavior modification, develop/train staff/volunteer training, assist in euthanasia evaluation. - Ideal candidate: hands-on experience with dogs and cats, willingness to learn other species, Applied Animal Behavior certifications/degrees encouraged, excel in customer service, strong networking abilities, comfortable delivering training, prepared to work with euthanasia decisions, professionalism, compassion, ethical judgment. - Distinguishing characteristics: responsible paraprofessional position coordinating adoption/fostering/rescue programs at offsite locations. - Supervision: receives general supervision from management; may exercise direct supervision over non-career staff and volunteers. - Responsibilities list (including community outreach, adoptions, fostering, rescue, education, interviews, placement, awareness, marketing, onsite/offsite coordination, counseling, explaining laws, assisting public, coordinating

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