Assistant Primate Keeper

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

Research Animal Resources is seeking an Assistant Primate Keeper to provide animal care to a breeding colony of group-housed monkeys in an indoor/outdoor setting at the Johns Hopkins University off site location. Care includes feeding, cleaning, enclosure maintenance, provision of environmental enrichment, health monitoring, and behavioral observation. Extensive and regular training will be given and required for new staff of all experience levels, to include safety, husbandry and care SOPs, animal behavior, and other related topics. Assistant Primate Keepers will never be required to work at the facility alone, and must always report daily to the Animal Facilities Manager or their delegate.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide daily care to primates, including but not limited to, feeding, cleaning animal enclosures, and preparing and distributing enrichment.
• Clean indoor and outdoor animal enclosures and other associated areas, ensuring safe use of cleaning solutions and sufficient disinfection of surfaces according to facility SOPs
• Perform routine enclosure maintenance, including raking, minor repairs, and other routine maintenance activities.
• Complete daily census of animals.
• Observe and report out on physical condition and health of animals.
• Monitor and report out on animal behavior and social interactions.
• Inspect facilities and animal enclosure elements to ensure safety and security.
• Shift, capture, restrain animals as needed.
• Provide daily occupational environmental enrichments and inspect, clean, and replace physical enrichments.
• Perform routine maintenance and make minor repairs to equipment and facilities.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and SOPs.
• Maintain records, inventories and other information.
• Assist with receiving and shipping non-human primates.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or graduation equivalent.
• One year of prior full-time employment in any field of work.
• Additional education may substitute for experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Must be able to work a rotating weekend and holiday schedule.

Physical Requirements

• Job entails the ability to lift up to at least 40 pounds
• Work is performed indoors and outdoors with exposure to all seasonal weather conditions, with frequent exposure to and contact with animals, that can carry the risk of zoonotic disease transmission.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working with animals.
• Prior experience working in an outdoor setting.

Classified Title: Assistant Primate Keeper
Role/Level/Range: ACRO40/E/02/CB
Starting Salary Range: $15.40 - $23.25 HRLY (Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Monday – Friday 7:00 – 3:30, Some weekends and holidays
Exempt Status: Non-Exempt
Location: School of Medicine Campus
Department name: ​​​​​​​Research Animal Resources
Personnel area: University Administration

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