Role: Birds Trainee Keeper - Taronga Zoo
- Located at Sydney’s Iconic - Taronga Zoo!
- Ongoing, Full-time position
- TCSA Salaried Employees Award, Trainee Keeper, annual package from $60,158 (includes base salary $53,077 + plus superannuation & leave loading)
Taronga Zoo Sydney is looking for an experienced and motivated Birds Trainee Keeper to join our Australian Fauna Precinct team!
An extremely unique and exciting opportunity is soon becoming available at Taronga Zoo Sydney, for those avid Zoo Keepers who have a true love for birds!
This is a rare (and really cool) full-time position, where you’ll join the Australian Fauna Precinct team as a Bird Keeper!
About the Role…
Deliver high quality animal husbandry and management practices for the Taronga animal collection and convey environmental and conservation messages to provide inspiring and educational messages to our visitors.
Key Accountabilities…
- Work without supervision to safely provide high quality animal husbandry and management techniques in line with Taronga policies and procedures to assist Taronga in meeting WHS and animal care and welfare targets and in complying with all relevant legislation.
- Comply with Taronga's Animal Welfare Charter to ensure industry leading standards of animal welfare are maintained and animals in our care are assured of Taronga's 5 Freedoms.
- Communicate Taronga's education and conservation messages both internally and externally, ensuring all communications align with Taronga's values to inspire behavioural change in accordance with Taronga's vision and strategic pillars.
- Deliver high quality customer services experiences in order to provide excellent guest experiences and promote repeat visitation.
- Work effectively as a member of a high performing team including peers, volunteers and students to assist Taronga in its achievement of strategic outcomes.
- Comply with sustainability practices in the workplace to help achieve Taronga's sustainability targets and reduce environmental impact.
About You…
We are looking for candidates that have/ are willing to:
- NSW C Class Drivers Licence (or ability to transfer current unrestricted licence)
- TB Screening
- Vaccinations against Zoonotic disease – (in accordance with Taronga's Zoonotic disease vaccination matrix) including; Q Fever
- 0 – 4 years of paid animal husbandry related experience
- Obtain and maintain a current paid NSW Working with Children Check at own expense.
Benefits…
Our employees enjoy generous employment conditions including some of the following:
- Flexible Hybrid work model - Taronga supports a blend of in-office, remote, and on-the-go workers!
- Complimentary family and friends passes across both Taronga’s Sydney & Dubbo Zoo’s
- Free onsite car parking, outside of peak periods
- A wide range of discounts on our award winning accommodation across both sites
- Discounted food and beverage purchases across the sites
- Discounted Fitness Passport
- We’re a social team - there’s always lots going on around the zoo that we get involved with!
- + more!
We Value Diversity…
Taronga is an equal opportunity employer, where we recognise the diversity of our workforce and community – be it on the basis of gender, age, culture, religion, language or personal circumstances.
Taronga is also committed to building on the perspectives, experience, knowledge and skills that this diversity brings to our organisation.
About Applying…
Please submit your resume and a cover letter of one page. You are also required to complete the two target questions as part of your application.
- Describe a time when you had to work closely with a team to implement an animal care or enrichment plan. What was your role, how did you collaborate with others, and what was the outcome?
- What interests you most about working with birds, and how have you prepared yourself to care for them in a professional setting?
- How many years of paid full time equivalent work do you have in zookeeping?
Applications Close: 11:59pm, Monday 21 July 2025