Who Are We?
Austin Animal Center‘s mission is to enhance the lives of pets and people by preventing animal homelessness, to help lost pets find their way home or find new homes, to provide education and resources to preserve the human-animal bond, and to administer animal-related ordinances to ensure public and animal safety, all while achieving a 95% live outcome rate for sheltered pets.
Why work here?
If you love animals and want to make a positive impact on our community this is the place for you!We at Austin Animal Center is committed to the wellbeing of animals in our community and shelter. On a daily basis, the work we do here helps hundreds of animals and people within our network.
What’s the Job?
As a Customer Care Rep you must have the ability to communicate effectively and give your undivided attention to citizens when delivering customer services. This position will rotate between conducting conversations with customers that want to adopt an animal (Adoptions) and conversations with customers to assess their needs to connect the customer with resources that will enable them to keep their pet in the home, as well as providing resources for pet finders that walk up to our Pet Resource Center and recommend alternatives to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes and to deepen the customers’ understanding of our policies and procedures. (Intake).
This position will advise and respond to complex customer inquiries regarding services, ordinances, and procedures related to sheltered animals and general animal welfare, including animal availability, service timelines and fees; while accurately creating, updating, and maintaining electronic records associated with customers and animals. Customer communication will occur in person, email, fax, phone or 311.
The Customer Care Representative will have the ability to respond to inquiries as quickly as possible while showing compassion and empathy and the ability to handle problems with little or no supervision. The ideal candidate will be a professional, extremely strong verbal communicator, with great listening and organization skills. The individual will have the ability to create effortless experiences by assisting our customers in issue resolution with helpful, efficient, and accurate answers to their questions. Able to be a successful team member with strong verbal communication skills who excels at customer interaction, delivers practical solutions, thrives in quick paced, ever changing, ambiguous and collaborative team environment.
