Zoo registrar

Code 2621.9

Zoo registrars are responsible for the maintenance of a wide variety of records relating to animals and their care in zoological collections. This includes both historic and current records. They have the responsibiltity to collate records into an organised and recognised records keeping system. In most cases this also involves submitting regular reports to regional or international species information systems and/or as part of managed breeding programmes i.e. zoo registrars are usually responsible for both internal and external management if institutional records . Zoo registrars also often coordinate animal transportation for the zoological collection.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • unstructured data
  • animal welfare legislation

Skills and competences

  • speak different languages
  • ensure cross-department cooperation
  • coordinate operational activities
  • produce reports based on animal records
  • create animal records
  • manage data collection systems
  • keep task records
  • maintain data entry requirements
  • process data
  • use different communication channels
  • use ICT systems

Transversal competences

  • data quality assessment

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences