Companion Animal Officer

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• Are you passionate about animal welfare and community safety?
• Permanent Full-time opportunity
• 9-day fortnight
  
  
  • Are you passionate about animal welfare and community safety?
  • Permanent Full-time opportunity
  • 9-day fortnight
    
    
  Here, your ideas and efforts directly shape the places where you and your community live, work, and play.
  
  City of Newcastle has an opportunity for a Companion Animal Officer to join our dedicated Rangers team to ensure the health, cleanliness, and well-being of animals is at the forefront, whilst also providing support to animal welfare initiatives.
  
  As the Companion Animal Officer, you will apply your strong focus on an animal's health, cleanliness, and well-being to provide companion animal management, care and associated education services to both the Council and our community.
  
  You will be responsible for providing efficient operation of hands-on tasks related to the care, comfort, and safety of companion animals, such as feeding, watering, grooming, and exercising the impounded animals according to established standards and guidelines.
  
  The role will also provide valuable support for the Rangers team through managing the administration of animal registrations, customer requests, and business procedures in support of the CN's Animal Management Facility.
  
  This position will see you working a 7-day rotating roster.
  
  Find out more about your new career by viewing the position description here.
  
  Life at City of Newcastle (CN)
  
  You'll get to experience your work up close alongside the brilliant minds of your colleagues who care for one another and the region.
  
  You'll chip away at ambitious plans with a talented, passionate crew alongside you, shaping the very fabric of our community. Showing up for neighbours not shareholders.
  
  Every single day offers the chance to think big and act local. Planning and prioritising to achieve the most important outcomes with the community.
  
  You'll add value in the moments that matter. From librarians to lifeguards, in a range of iconic places, we achieve a better Newcastle together.
  
  Whether we're planning to host major events, providing essential services or supporting creative artists, it's what we do when the cameras aren't rolling that matters most.
  
  And we'll be there for you in important times in your life. We embrace flexible work arrangements to find a balance that allows us to enjoy the city we shape.
  
  Our focus on inclusion and respecting culture, will help you feel a deeper connection with others. You'll connect with internal communities that will help you to feel a sense of belonging and reflect the diversity of the growing region.
  
  You'll do meaningful work and do it sustainably as you take ideas from plan to play, in your own backyard.
  
  With hundreds of different roles, each person adds their uniqueness to our culture and plays their part as we head towards our 2040 vision.
  
  With natural assets and a focus on the environment, co-create a sustainable region with us.
  
  Why join CN?
  
  At CN, we value our employees, and their well-being takes priority. We encourage employees to make time for what's important and provide the benefits to enable a work-life balance that allow us to enjoy the city we shape. To read more, visit here
  • 38-hour working week with flexible/hybrid work arrangements/model as well as an optional 9-day fortnight
  • 4 weeks of annual leave, 3 weeks of personal leave plus 2 additional paid public holidays
  • 17.5% annual leave loading yearly payment
  • Paid parental leave for primary carers
  • Industry leading employment conditions
  • Corporate Fitness program from as little as $12.90 per fortnight
  • Access to a range of exclusive CN employee benefits programs including Novated Lease options as well as access to reward and recognition vouchers
  • Annual performance development plans and ongoing training and development opportunities
  • Leading the CN Way leadership program
  • Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (IDE) employee networks and initiatives
  • Access to Health & Wellbeing programs including an Onsite Physiotherapist, Yoga and Mental Health Ambassador Groups
    
    
  We champion inclusion so that everyone is valued, and we encourage innovation and creativity. We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where different styles, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, encouraged, and respected.
  
  People with diverse lived experiences (including but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, people with diverse gender identities and sexualities, people from different cultural, racial, ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability, carers, and veterans) are encouraged to apply.
  
  Don't just work for the city, co-create it. Join and expand your career at the City of Newcastle.
  
  Application Closing Date: Sunday, August 31st 2025
  
  Remuneration: $75,712.71 + 17.5% annual leave loading yearly payment + 12% Superannuation per annum for a 38-hour week
  
  Contact: Racheal Davis - Ranger Co-Ordinator - 02 4974 2787
  
  If you need any adjustments to be made to the recruitment process or if you would like to discuss any accessibility requirements, please contact

recruit@ncc.nsw.gov.au for a confidential discussion.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

CN do not accept unsolicited resumes, and we respectfully ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us at this stage.

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