Animal Shelter Caretaker

VAAR is seeking a dedicated, highly-organized, experienced, and compassionate Animal Caretaker to assist our team in the daily operations of our sanctuary and help the organization expand into projects that will prevent animal suffering in central Vietnam.

Taking care of animals is much more than feeding them. A clean shelter is essential to ensuring the health of the animals, and as the Founder ran their own nonprofit veterinary clinic for several years, they will train you on how to maintain clinic standards. There is a lot of enrichment to be done for the animals each day, as well as shelter management to ensure we have a safe and secure environment for our rescues.

When we have enough funding, we will re-start our mobile vet clinic for medical animal emergencies with local poverty-stricken families, as well as vaccination and sterilization community projects.

**Vietnam's borders are open and there are currently no COVID restrictions.**
- Shelter animal caretakingMeeting daily medical needs, enrichment, nutrition, and exercise
- Shelter facility caretakingDaily cleaning, maintenance, shopping, and DIY/gardening

Oversee the rest of the shelter staff
- Daily administrationPrecise record-keeping of shelter expenses
- Use of skillsUsing your skills outside of shelter management (like photography, copywriting, media, DIY, or graphic design) to help develop the organization.
- Assisting the Manager with veterinary visits to international clinic in Danang as needed

**Additional Responsibilities**
- Daily animal enrichment
- Organisation DevelopmentSupporting the directors in the development of the organization to include running community outreach programs, assisting with mass sterilization projects, and promoting of animal rights
- Social media, photographyTo assist the Manager in gaining relevant content for our online channels, posting on social media platforms, and generating funds.

**Job Benefits**:
5 working days per week / 2 days off

6 to 8 working hours per day

Offsite accommodation stipend up to 3 million VND

21 days annual paid holiday

$430 USD per month (10 million VND) with possibility of pay increase after 3 month training period (while this is low for US standards, we also have an extremely low cost of living as well as significantly less funding than US organizations).

**Salary**: From 10,500,000₫ per month