Customer Experience Officers The Lost Dogs Home location Melbourne.

About us The Lost Dogs' Home is one of the country's largest animal welfare organisations, caring for up to 14,000 cats and dogs each year. We pride ourselves on employing dedicated individuals who demonstrate a strong commitment to animal welfare, shelter medicine, community education and the cause.

About the role the Lost Dogs' Home has seen an increase in the number of enquiries for lost pets and an increase to the number of cats and dogs we are adopting yearly, which means we need more staff to help with the work load. We are looking for four new team members to join our Customer Experience Team in North Melbourne.

In this varied role, you will be responsible for providing a high level of customer service to members of the public who are visiting the Home for a multitude of reasons, including fostering, adopting, reclaiming animals, looking for lost pets, surrendering and so on.

This is a unique opportunity to bring your customer service skills to a challenging, yet rewarding role. You will play a role in helping lost pets be reunited with their owners and also assist with finding potential adopters their perfect cat or dog to take home. This role is a mixture of fast paced customer service, administration and some animal handling. Some of your key responsibilities will be:

Providing excellent customer service to all members of the public visiting the Home, reflecting the Home’s values. Administration tasks including recording all relevant information, ensuring integrity of information entered into our systems, adhering to legislation, writing/updating adoption profiles, communicate with councils, and ad hoc duties receiving incoming calls in a professional, friendly manner, screen and direct calls to appropriate stakeholders, answer general enquiries regarding shelter operations, such as adoptions, lost/found animal information.

General husbandry of cats and dogs, including microchip checks, transferring from carriers to crates/pods, occasional cleaning, feeding & exercising. Educating public about responsible pet ownership and maintaining the health and wellbeing of their pets. Assisting in reuniting animals with their owners through actively trying to contact the owner. Guiding potential adopters through the adoption process, including facilitating the meet and greets with our adoption animals. Processing financial transactions as required and undertake daily banking procedures to balance.

About you we are looking for an individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, who will bring their energy, enthusiasm and passion for customer-centric service and animal welfare to an already dynamic and unique team. Our newest team member will be comfortable handling animals and have a basic knowledge of animal behaviour, and must feel comfortable handling customer de-escalations. You will be flexible and available to work on weekdays, weekends (rotating roster)and public holidays. You will also have extensive customer service experience (essential).

Sound animal handling skills and confidence handling dogs and cats of different breeds (essential). Interest and passion for animal welfare in a shelter setting. Proven ability to work both autonomously and within a team. Experience with systems and data bases (Zendesk experience well-regarded). Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Sound emotional maturity and ethics regarding animals and their welfare.

What you will get in return fantastic career development and opportunities in the animal welfare field. Discounts at our vet clinic, Frank Samways Veterinary Clinic. Access to our Employee Assistance Program and onsite counselling service. Paid parental leave entitlements. Access to the Foster Care Program. A unique and friendly working environment, regular social activities organised by the social club.