zoo curator
ISCO: 1431. Skills: 58. Essential: 45.
Essential skills
- administer treatment to animals
- advise on animal purchase
- anatomy of animals
- animal acquisition
- animal breeding programmes
- animal evolution
- animal welfare legislation
- applied zoology
- assess the compatibility of individuals and animals to work together
- budgetary principles
- chair a meeting
- coordinate events
- corporate social responsibility
- develop recreation programmes
- develop zoonotic disease control policies
- ensure health and safety of staff
- ensure health and safety of visitors
- environmental legislation
- establish daily priorities
- fix meetings
- follow company standards
- liaise with local authorities
- maintain catalogue collection
- maintain professional records
- manage budgets
- manage logistics
- manage recreational facility
- manage staff
- manage supplies
- manage teamwork
- manage zoo staff
- organise zoological exhibitions
- oversee animal management
- perform project management
- physiology of animals
- promote recreation activities
- read zoo reports
- recreation activities
- represent the organisation
- schedule recreation facilities
- set organisational policies
- speak different languages
- supervise daily information operations
- work effectively with animal-related organisations
- zoo regulations
Supporting skills
- analyse transportation costs
- animal transport regulations
- breed reptiles
- coordinate export transportation activities
- coordinate import transportation activities
- create safe working protocols
- liaise with transportation companies
- organise training
- prepare transportation routes
- solve operational transport problems
- speak about your work in public
- study a collection
- zoo exhibit design