Veterinarian

Position title: Veterinarian

Main duty station: Cuc Phuong, Ninh Binh (100km away from Ha Noi)

Introduction to Save Vietnam’s Wildlife

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) is a national Non-Profit Organisation in Vietnam that was established under the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations with registration license from Ministry of Science and Technology. Read more on our website: http://savevietnamswildlife.org/

Mission statement

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife ensures a secured future for threatened wildlife in Vietnam.

Aims

• Delivering effective education programs to empower people to take informed action.
• Working with Government to effect positive, long-lasting change for wildlife.
• Rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing confiscated threatened wildlife, and contributing to conservation-breeding programs for globally-threatened species, in support of wild populations.
• Increasing understanding of conservation requirements of threatened wildlife through rigorous scientific research.
• Demonstrating and promoting good animal welfare to organisations throughout Vietnam.

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife is looking a position of Veterinarian

Duration: Permanent position

Expected starting date: As soon as possible.

Salary: To be discussed.

Work place: Save Vietnam’s Wildlife, Cuc Phuong National Park, Nho Quan, Ninh Binh.

Responsibilities of Veterinarian

• Train CMT staff in their monitoring of the health and behaviour of the captive animals, basic preventative health procedures and identify and develop long-term solutions for veterinarian care for the centre.
• Maintain the health of all animals held at SVW including preventative health management, treating unwell animals, deal with disease outbreak effectively, minimising animal morbidity and mortality and reducing risks to human health.
• Responsible for the health of all animals coming into SVW through rescues, coordinating quarantine procedures and rehabilitation of rescued animals.
• Contribute to the development of husbandry and rescue guidelines for SVW.
• Conduct post mortem examination of all animals that die at SVW to improve understanding of the normal anatomy, physiology and common pathology of small carnivores and pangolins.
• Develop and carry out veterinary research relevant to improving the conservation of the focal species
• Participate in Rapid Response Team to help FPD, Vietnamese zoos, rescue centres in veterinary work for confiscated wildlife from illegal wildlife trade
• Work with the Captive Management Team to improve husbandry and increase the successes of ex-situ conservation.

Requirements

• Must be Vietnamese.
• Bachelor degree in veterinary, veterinary pharmaceuticals with a love of Wildlife.
• At least 1 year experience in wildlife veterinary.
• Experience with husbandry management is an advantage
• Fluency in both English and Vietnamese.
• Strong skills of science, critical thinking, reading comprehension to approach to problems, identify alternative solutions and conclusions.
• Good organizational and reporting skills
• Willingness to undertake frequent travel

Opportunities

• Working in a NGO and English speaking environment
• Having chances to be trained in professional courses of veterinarian
• Opportunity to become Veterinary and Husbandry Manager of Save Vietnam’s Wildlife
• Working office based in a beautiful Cuc Phuong national park

How to apply

Interested Vietnamese candidates should send their recent CV and a cover letter (written in English and Vietnamese) to email: [email protected] or [email protected] by 31 May 2016. Acknowledgements will be sent to short-listed applicants only.

Phone contact: 0303848053

Application Deadline: Tuesday, 31st May 2016