Animal facility manager jobs in Finland
Animal facility managers coordinate and plan all activities of a zoo. They formulate policies, manage daily operations, and plan the use of materials and human resources. They are the driving force and public face of their institution. This often involves representing their institution on a national, regional and global scale and taking part in coordinated zoo activities.
Animal facility manager - Which skills are essential?
Respond to visitors complaints, in a correct and polite manner, offering a solution when possible and taking action when necessary.
Organise zoological exhibitions and the display of live animals and zoological collections.
Plan, monitor and report on the budget.
National, regional and international regulations related to zoos.
Master foreign languages to be able to communicate in one or more foreign languages.
Zoo and aquarium community on a local, regional and global scale. Zoo membership associations, their guiding principles and how this might affect management of individual institutions within the wider community.
Working with others, develop visitor engagement strategies to ensure stability, or growth, in visitor numbers and encourage visitor satisfaction.
Read and process the reports of zookeepers and other zoological professionals, and compile the information for zoo records.
Prepare, monitor and adjust operational budgets together with the economical/administrative manager/professionals in the arts institute/unit/project.
Supervise, instruct and plan work for teams or individual members of the team. Set up time schedules and make sure they are followed.
Apply generation and effective application of business insights and possible opportunities, in order to achieve competitive business advantage on a long-term basis.
The environmental policies and legislation applicable in a certain domain.
Oversee all aspects of animal management.
Implement a strategy for the development and transformation of the company. Strategic management involves the formulation and implementation of the major objectives and initiatives of a company by senior management on behalf of the owners, based on consideration of available resources and an assessment of the internal and external environments in which the organisation operates.
Delegate activities and tasks to others according to the ability, level of preparation, competence and legal scope of practice. Make sure that people understand what they should do and when they should do it.
Manage and plan various resources, such as human resources, budget, deadline, results, and quality necessary for a specific project, and monitor the project's progress in order to achieve a specific goal within a set time and budget.
The customer-oriented management approach and basic principles of successful customer relations that focus on interactions with customers such as technical support, customer services, after-sales support and direct communication with the customer.
Speak about your work to different kinds of audiences. Illustrate aspects depending on the audience and the occasion.
Develop and sustain relationships with other organisations such as charities, government agencies, Non-Governmental Organisations and representative bodies, in relation to furthering animal health and welfare. Communicate veterinary principles and operate within multidisciplinary teams comprised of persons with varying degrees of scientific and administrative knowledge.'
Manage zoo staff, including zoo keeping staff at all levels and/or veterinarians and/or educators and/or horticulturalists.
Understand the various factors that influence effective zoo exhibit design as well as the steps towards realising that design.
Animal facility manager - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Competent use of English; R351refers to level C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
Research and trace the origins and the historical significance of collections and archive content.