Doggy Day Care Coordinator - Holiday Barn Pet Resorts
Richmond, VA
About the Job
We are looking for a highly motivated, responsible dog lover to be a leader within our Day Care Pack at Camp Holiday Barn at our Midlothian location. The Day Care Coordinator ensures that operations at Camp Holiday Barn are successfully maintained and integrated into the service goals of all other departments at Holiday Barn, ensuring the health, safety and happiness of our day care guests. The Day Care Coordinator is a hands-on employee within Camp Holiday Barn and the entire resort. The coordinator works closely with the Day Care Manager, the Facility Manager, other department managers and pack members to provide premiere care and service to our guests while also integrating Holiday Barn's values into all interactions with all pack members, customers and guests.
What is Dog Day Care like at Holiday Barn? Dog Day Care at Camp Holiday Barn is an action-packed day care program which entertains your dog all day. There are many benefits to our day care program. Your dog will come home tired and happy. Your dog will get quite a bit of exercise.
The Day Care Coordinator works in both supervisory and hands on roles with the Day Care Manager and Day Care Associates at Camp Holiday Barn to ensure the health, safety and happiness of day care guests.
Day Care Coordinator requirements include:
- Supervisory experience - 1-2 years experience leading a team
- Pet care experience in a professional pet care environment
- Strong communication skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Ability to work well within a team and lead a team
- Positive, can-do attitude
- Love of Dogs!
- Basic understanding and knowledge of dog behavior
- Ability to work in a fast paced, physically demanding environment. The Coordinator must be able to lift pets up to 50 lbs. Holiday Barn Pet Resorts are active places to work. Our work environment is typified as a moderately physical work place. Our responsibilities include heavy lifting, handling energetic pets, repetitive arm motions, long periods of standing, body-bumping, loud noises, health conscientious cleaning, and LOTS of dog and cat interactions!
- Flexibility. We are a resort, which means we are busiest on weekends and holidays. Candidates must be willing to work weekends and major holidays. *Earn an additional $2/hr on weekends and major holidays!!! (New Years Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving weekend Thurs - Sun)*
Holiday Barn will provide: competitive compensation, access to company sponsored health benefits, personal leave time, and ability to grow within a company that insists on high values for our customers and employees.
Holiday Barn is a drug free workplace.
Holiday Barn is an equal opportunity employer.