Assistant/veterinary Surgeon

**Job Category**:Terai Tiger Project

**Location**:Pilibhit/Katarniaghat

**Date Posted**:09-June-2024

Qualification - B.V.Sc

Experience - 0-2 Years

**Key responsibilities**:
1) Work closely with the entire project team with the sole objective of providing emergency relief to animals in distress

2) Support the mobile veterinary service through the use of appropriate veterinary and animal husbandry skills for stabilization and treatment of injured or distressed wildlife, and transfer of animals that require special and protracted care to the field station or rescue centre.

3) Address human-wildlife conflict in and around Protected Areas of the project location and look for appropriate placement options for the displaced animals

4) Strengthen all disease diagnostic operations with laboratory investigations by collecting, preserving and despatching appropriate specimens, including the conduct of autopsies on all birds, reptiles and mammals that die under care

5) Provide wildlife health support to the PAs in project location by attending to wildlife mortalities, recording wildlife deaths and epidemics, and following appropriate disease diagnostic, control and preventive measures

6) Use appropriate restraint and handling methods without causing behavioral damage and without impairing their rehabilitation potential

7) Monitor key released taxa using appropriate post release monitoring protocol

8) Maintains records of all rescue operations, from admission of animal to its final disposition in all 3 formats. This would also include maintaining records/registers of treatment, husbandry, anesthesia, surgery and laboratory investigations, besides entering rescue cases online using the app and maintain the master excel file.

9) Conduct awareness program, stakeholder meetings and training of frontline field staff.

10) Additionally responsible for all field level governmental and partner liaisons at appropriate levels for the project and local public relation needs, with the PI/Regional Facilitator

11) Responsible for maintenance of all assets of the organization (veterinary expendable, veterinary non expendable, and fixed assets

12) Additional responsibilities will be as mentioned in the individual targets