Animal Protection Officer - Denver Animal Protection
Animal Protection Officer - Denver Animal Protection
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About Our Job
With competitive pay great benefits and endless opportunities working for the City and County of Denver means seeing yourself working with purpose for you and those who benefit from your passion skills and expertise. Join our diverse inclusive and talented workforce of more than 11000 team members who are at the heart of what makes Denver Denver.
What We Offer
The City and County of Denver offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. The salary range for this position is $32.44 $50.28. We also offer generous benefits for fulltime employees which include but are not limited to:
A guaranteed lifelong monthly pension once vested after 5 years of service
457B Retirement Plan
140 hours of PTO earned within first year 11 paid holidays 1 personal holiday and 1 volunteer day per year
Competitive medical dental and vision plans effective within 1 month of start date
Location
In this position you can expect to work on site at the Denver Animal Shelter located at 1241 W. Bayaud Ave. Denver CO 80223.
What Youll Do
Within the Denver Department of Public Health & Environment (DDPHE) Denver Animal Protection (DAP) protects the safety and welfare of Denvers animals and residents by fostering the human animal bond. DAP emphasizes public and animal safety and health encourages responsible pet ownership through education and enforcing compliance with animalrelated municipal code requirements and cares for animals at the Denver Animal Shelter (DAS). More information can be found at: DDPHE: Denver Animal Protection.
We foster an inclusive culture by respecting the values customs and authenticity of everyone and by implementing equitable public health strategies so Denver communities can thrive.
DAP has an opening for an Animal Protection Officer. This position will enforce local and regional laws concerning the care and treatment of animals investigate complaints of noncompliance with animal ordinances and laws investigate animal bites to people and animal attacks serve a public health function by inspecting animal related facilities and managing zoonotic disease control act as a court liaison on violations pertaining to the issuance of legal summonses and provide education to the public regarding animal care safety and welfare. Additionally this position will handle domestic and wild animals on a routine basis in situations where situational awareness personal safety and community safety is paramount.
Specifically the Animal Protection Officer:
Investigates animal related crimes
Responds to complaints about inappropriate animal behavior enforces rabies vaccination and licensing requirements and dog leash laws and collects impounds and cares for animals. Issues legal summonses to leash law violators owners of unvaccinated and unlicensed dogs and other violations. Writes legal affidavits for search warrants and court orders executes search warrants and enforces court orders related to animals.
Chases confines and impounds loose animals.
Acts as a court liaison and works with the City Attorneys Office and the District Attorneys Office concerning cases of aggressive or dangerous animals animal cruelty neglect abuse and/or abandonment.
Testifies in court on violations related to the issuance of legal summonses to animal law violations including neglect cases cruelty cases bite cases and other legal violations.
Investigates reported dog bite incidents and quarantines animals when necessary.
Promotes Public Health and a One Health mindset related to domestic and wild animals
Performs inspections of animalrelated establishments and ensures compliance with municipal ordinances laws regulations and contracts.
Provides education and outreach to community groups schools and the public regarding responsible pet ownership proper pet care safe humananimal interactions and answers questions and explains rules policies and regulations pertaining to public health and animal control ordinances.
Respond to calls concerning injured animals identifies sick or diseased animals and takes precautions to prevent the spread of disease to other animals or humans.
Providing public resources
Returns animals to owners when the owner can be identified using city issued tags microchips or information from neighbors before an animal is taken to the shelter.
Administers vaccinations to animals and performs humane euthanasia.
Maintains accurate and complete daily log of all related activities such as calls received for each shift impoundment and the disposition of animals and prepares reports.
Operates vehicle and twoway radio in the performance of duties.
Cleans and makes minor repairs to facilities and equipment as assigned.
Along with all department staff this position will actively participate on an emergency preparedness and response team to support DDPHEs responsibilities outlined in the Citys Emergency Operations Plan. This may require being oncall from time to time to help respond to emergencies. Additional training commensurate with assigned duties will be provided.
Other duties as assigned.
This position requires availability to work shifts in the morning evening overnight oncall on weekends and on holidays. This shiftwork is a core function of the officer job role. Officers including leads work a 4 day per week 10 hours per shift schedule.
This position is physically demanding requiring intermittent periods of intense physical activity broken up by periods of driving or administrative work. Physical demands include lifting large animals into trucks or vans running both short and longer distances climbing pulling pushing biking and sometimes awkward physical movements. Each employee in this position is required to take a Health Performance Evaluation (HPE) on an annual basis regarding this type of work.
What Youll Bring
We value diversity of ethnicity race socioeconomic status sexual identity gender religion language ability and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. Youll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself your work the people around you and Denver to the next level.
Our ideal candidate has some or all the following experience skills and characteristics:
A Bachelors Degree in Animal Science Criminal Justice Public Health Environmental Health or related field.
Superior customer service skills.
Experience in responding to complaints related to public health public safety or animal related nuisances.
The ability to be comfortable collecting impounding and caring for animals.
Bilingual in Spanish/English
This position requires the employee to be available to work morning shifts evening shifts overnight oncall shifts weekends and holidays. This shiftwork is a core function of the officer job role.
To be moved forward in the application process you must obtain the following:
Animal Welfare Association of Colorado (AWAC) State Certification for Animal Control Officers
Expandable Baton Certification
OC Spray Certification
Euthanasia by Injection Certification
NOTE: AWAC Certification must be obtained within 12 months and Baton OC Spray and Euthanasia Certifications must be obtained within 6 months.
Required Minimum Qualifications
Education requirement: Bachelors Degree.
Experience Requirement: Two 2 years of experience conducting environmental/public health inspections investigations or environmental/public health management activities.
Education/Experience Equivalency: One 1 year of the appropriate type and level of experience may be substituted for each required year of posthigh school education.
Additional appropriate education may be substituted for the minimum experience requirements.
License/Certifications: Requires a valid Drivers License at the time of application.
Licenses and certifications must be kept current as a condition of employment.
Application Deadline
This position is expected to stay open until Saturday May 3 2025. Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than that date at 11:59 p.m. to ensure consideration.
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Job Profile
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Position Type
UnlimitedPosition Salary Range
$32.44 $50.28Starting Pay
Based on education and experience.Agency
Dept of Public Health & EnvironmentThe City and County of Denver provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability genetic information age or any other status protected under federal state and/or local law.
It is your right to access oral or written language assistance sign language interpretation realtime captioning via CART or disabilityrelated accommodations. To request any of these services at no cost to you please contact with three business days notice.
Applicants for employment with the City and County of Denver must have valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S.
For information about right to work click here for English or here for Spanish.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
