Animal Welfare and Policy Officer

5 days ago


Canberra, Australia ACT Government Full time

If you are passionate about animal welfare and making a difference to your community, this could well be the role for you.

Based at the Domestic Animal Services facility in Symonston, the Animal Welfare and Policy Officer provides educational support in the promotion of responsible dog ownership in the ACT. The role provides both internal and external education materials and presentations in relation to the Canberra Dog Model for responsible dog management. The Animal Welfare and Policy Officer attends external events relating dogs and animal management as required, this does require some weekend work.

The role also provides support to the ACT Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (AWAC) Secretariat. This includes attending committee meetings, preparing reports, assisting in drafting of Codes of Practices, and preparing high level briefing documents for the Senior Director, Executive and Government Ministers.

The role includes working with Domestic Animal Services Rangers in attending and responding to Animal Welfare complaints and assisting in preparation of case related documents for regulatory action by Domestic Animal Services.

The role is also required to review, draft and provide input into current and new policies that relate to Domestic Animal Services.

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An order of merit will be established from this selection process and may be used to fill future identical vacancies over the next 12 months.

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**Note**:
This is a temporary position available immediately for eight months.



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