Cat Town is hiring a Cat Care Attendant to help us provide exceptional care to cats at our Adoption Center. This is a part-time, non-exempt, hourly position located in Oakland, California. Weekend and occasional holiday work is required. For this opening, availability to work on Friday and Saturday mornings is essential.
Starting pay is $20 per hour. Cat Town benefits include paid time off, and a SIMPLE IRA retirement plan with matching contributions of up to 3%.
Cat Town is an equal-opportunity employer and deeply committed to diversity. We strongly encourage women, people of color, first-generation Americans, new parents, single parents, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community to apply.
To apply, please send your resume to andrew@cattownoakland.org.
About the position
Our team of Cat Care Attendants (CCAs) provide routine, daily care to approximately 30-40 cats at our Adoption Center. Primary duties include caring for the cats (feeding, cleaning, medicating, providing enrichment), and keeping the facility exceptionally clean.
The right person is someone who is reliable, excels in a fast-paced, multiple-priority, constantly changing environment, and is able to work effectively with limited supervision. The ideal candidate loves cats, and is passionate about our mission to get hard-to-place cats out of the shelter and into great homes.
The work may be physically demanding at times, and the work environment includes potential exposure to cat urine, feces, vomit, litter, cat bites and scratches, and zoonotic diseases including ringworm, giardia, toxoplasmosis, and others.
Under supervision, the Cat Care Attendant will:
- Provide daily care to cats (e.g. food, water, cleaning litter boxes and facilities);
- Medicate cats;
- Wash, fold, and put away laundry;
- Wash dishes;
- Deep clean and sanitize all surfaces and facilities;
- Set up, break down, and sanitize crates, carriers, litter boxes and other items;
- Unload, lift/carry and organize supplies;
- Observe and report medical and behavior observations about the cats;
- Clean the restroom and other shared staff facilities; and
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Required skills and experience for this position:
- High School diploma or equivalent;
- Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate clearly with a wide range of personalities and work styles, both individually and within groups of diverse constituents;
- Ability to work effectively, both independently and in a team environment, in an atmosphere of multiple projects, shifting priorities, and deadline pressures. Ability to be flexible, detail oriented and able to prioritize;
- Ability to lift and carry cats, and up to 40 pounds of supplies.
- Ability to work in a standing or bent position for long periods;
- Ability to work weekends, early mornings, and/or evenings, and occasional major holidays.
We’re hoping you bring 1-2 (or more) of these bonus qualifications:
- Passion for animal welfare;
- Experience working or volunteering with an animal shelter, rescue organization, veterinary hospital, or similar organization;
- Basic knowledge of cat behavior;
- Basic knowledge of common medical conditions in cats;
- Experience working as a janitor or similar role;
- Experience with cat handling and medicating cats.
About Cat Town
Cat Town's mission is to transform the approach to saving shelter cats, reducing euthanasia nationwide, and to find great homes for cats who are considered unadoptable in the traditional animal welfare model. In 2011, we began this work as a 100% foster-based organization, and fostering continues to be an integral component of our life saving work. In 2014, Cat Town opened the nation’s first cat cafe to help elderly, under-socialized, sick, and injured cats get adopted. Through this Adoption Center and our foster program, our work has proven that cats frequently considered to be "unadoptable" make exceptional companions, and helped reduce Oakland’s euthanasia rate for shelter cats by more than 70% since 2011.
