Through the delivery of daily animal care and feeding, this role plays a key part in maintaining animal welfare and enabling high-quality scientific research.

What You'll Do In This Role

- Provide husbandry and animal care support across aquatic (including Zebrafish), aviary, wildlife and rodent facilities, including sanitisation, plant maintenance, and water quality monitoring.
- Ensure animals are fed daily in accordance with all feeding protocols.
- Monitor animal health and wellbeing daily, ensuring appropriate care, clean food and water, and an enriched living environment
- Maintain accurate records of animal history and related data as required.
- Support ethical animal care and use by maintaining accurate records and compliance with animal ethics and regulatory requirements.

To be successful, you'll have About The Employer At Deakin, we offer more than just a job - we offer a lifestyle. Across our campuses in Geelong, Melbourne, and regional Victoria, you'll find everything you need to thrive: on-site childcare, gyms, medical centres, cafes, accessible public transport, and convenient parking.

Enjoy flexible working arrangements that support your work-life balance, generous leave entitlements including extended parental leave and the option to purchase additional time off, plus a wide range of staff discounts on travel and more. Our health and wellbeing services, ongoing professional development opportunities, and inclusive,



supportive culture make Deakin a place where you can grow - whether you're working remotely or immersed in the vibrant energy of campus life.

Are You Ready?

Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are an agile, dynamic, and innovative university committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education, research and innovation and the contributions we make to the wider community.

We understand that our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff and we offer a energetic and diverse working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure that people choose to come, and stay at Deakin and contribute to our ongoing success.

About The Candidate

- Completion of an Associate Diploma level qualifications with relevant work experience or a certificate level qualification with post-certificate relevant work experience.
- Completion of a post-Trades Certificate or Advanced Certificate and extensive relevant and on the job training; or
- An equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.
- Demonstrated experience in the care of animals e.g aquatic, avian, wildlife and rodent species.
- Knowledge of animal use in research and teaching in a broad range.
- Availability to work outside business hours, weekends, public holidays and on-call shifts

📌 Assistant Animal Technician (Waurn Ponds)
🏢 Geelong Careers
📍 Waurn Ponds