Animal Control Director

This is a full-time position with benefits. This position is responsible for directing the operations of the Animal Control Department.
Major duties include but are not limited to:

1. Evaluates and reports on the holistic organizational goals, statistics, mission, and efficiency; ensures that policies, local ordinances, applicable rules and regulations, training standards, and other accountability processes meet or exceed requirements.
2. Responds to all operational and legal information requests, including statistics, open records, sponsorship, individual animal descriptors, drug logs, euthanasia logs, and management subpoenas; communicates with clients by email, telephone, and in writing.
3. Manages staff inside the shelter and in the field; ensures HR standards, county policy, shelter service standards, and department standard operating procedures are met or exceeded; creates, revises, and enforces policy manual; holds staff meetings or individual counseling sessions on changing policies, evaluations, and infractions.
4. Handles all public relations programs and elevated customer service matters; updates Web sites, conducts education program and tours, responds to media requests, submits press releases, and handles aggravated cases.
5. Maintains budget and fiscal integrity; ensures that physical assets are maintained current and in stock; drafts purchase orders, supervises payroll and daily tender, balances and drafts annual budget, and reviews performance measures.
6. Manages field services, comprehensive shelter database, aggravated investigations, and court dockets; tracks individual employee accountability; ensures that proper protocols are followed during the complaint taking, mitigation, dispatch, investigation, and response to each call.
7. Performs other related duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with completion of baccalaureate degree in a course of study related to the occupational field.
• Experience sufficient to thoroughly understand the diverse objectives and functions of the subunits in the division/department in order to direct and coordinate work within the division/department, usually interpreted to require three to five years of related experience.
• Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid driver's licenses issued by the State of Georgia for the type of vehicle or equipment operated.