We are looking for an energetic and enthusiastic individual to work with a team of professional staff, interns and volunteers to provide compassionate medical care and rehabilitation to local wildlife. We need an emotionally mature individual to assist in supporting the daily wildlife rehabilitation operations (as part of the medical clinic team), provide medical care to injured wildlife, and provide support and leadership for our robust volunteer and intern program.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Patient Care, Patient Monitoring, and Clinical Care:

• Oversees daily feeding and cleaning of animals in rehabilitation and resident animals
• Participates in daily animal care to compensate for shortages in volunteer coverage or experience
• Supervises, directs, and trains volunteers, interns, and junior staff on shift
• Assists members of the public with wildlife issues on the phone and in person at the admissions desk
• Accepts animals admissions and performs initial exams and triage care for new patients
• Performs daily care for intensive care, quarantined, or potentially dangerous patients who cannot be handled by volunteers or interns
• Collaborates with Medical Clinic Director (MCD) to monitor intensive care patient and provide follow-up care, transfer to other facility, or euthanasia as cases progress
• Collaborates with MCD to continually re-evaluate current patients to make changes to treatment plan
• Collaborates with MCD to monitor current patients for release
• Coordinates releases of successful patients
• Performs medical procedures as needed, including: biopsies of other diagnostics, cleaning porcupines with skin infections under anesthesia, suturing under anesthesia
• Works with veterinarian to keep knowledge current and improve veterinary skills and abilities
• Trains other professional staff rehabilitators in medical practices
• Ensures that medical care is provided with compliance to industry standards of safety for patients and staff
• Study techniques, protocols, and cases at other wildlife rehabilitation and veterinary facilities to improve standard of care at CFW

Support and mentoring for year-round Medical Clinic Intern and Volunteer Program:

• Create and distribute application materials appropriate to each position and stage of the process
• Review applications, conduct phone interviews
• In collaboration with CFW department heads, coordinate selection of interns and volunteers
• Establish arrival and departure dates
• Assist with intern housing, visas, and transportation where necessary
• Communicate with the local community and via wildlife rehabilitation networking to promote opportunities for intern position and volunteer opportunities
• Maintain the intern portion of the CFW website including an updating intern application and current information about the program
• Contribute to CFW publications highlighting interns and volunteers and their activities
• Plan and lead an interdisciplinary training program for the interns as a group
• Coordinate and / or provide mentoring and personal attention to each intern
• Respond to any special needs or crises that arise among interns
• Encourage each intern to establish personal professional goals and means for reaching those goals

Preferred Skills and Abilities:

1. State of Maine wildlife rehabilitation permit or willingness to attain
2. Two to four years experience in wildlife rehabilitation
3. Two or more years experience providing medical care to intensive care wildlife patients
4. Basic knowledge of native species and their natural histories
5. Physical fitness to work on feet for 8-10 hours (with breaks), lift up to 30 pounds, and safely restrain large raptors and waterbirds
6. Superior interpersonal and communication skills
7. Knowledge of volunteer management/human resources principles
8. Experience training and/or managing people
9. Experience working with volunteers
10. Excellent presentation skills for effectively presenting training programs to a variety of groups
11. Strong organizational skills for coordinating the multiple functions and planning
12. Computer literate
13. Able to maintain confidential information. and medical terminology
14. Interpret technical procedures or regulations
15. Ability to write reports, correspondence, and procedure manuals
16. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from staff, and the general public
17. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
18. Budget experience and administrative techniques related to the development and implementation of appropriate fiscal controls, personnel and appropriate methods of work planning, scheduling and coordination
19. Requires ability to effectively establish and maintain cooperative working relationships within a diverse, multicultural environment

**Extended work hours periodically required. Work is subject to inflexible deadlines. The intent of this position description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Incumbents may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented. Ability to lift at least 30 pounds.

Organization Description:

For twenty-five years, our wildlife medical clinic and rehabilitation facility, its staff and volunteers have provided medical care, safe sanctuary and humane treatment for ill, injured and orphaned wildlife until they can be released back into the wild. The Center for Wildlife is a private, non-profit organization whose mission is to rehabilitate and provide sanctuary for sick and injured wild animals, and to promote respect for wildlife and the environment. Center for Wildlife provides the full range of treatment services needed to rehabilitate birds, mammals and reptiles; assisting the public with issues relating to wildlife; and provides educational and outreach programs to promote knowledge and appreciation of wild animals and the habitats they depend on for survival. Opportunities are also available to be involved in research and grant writing.

Full Time/ Permanent