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The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) is a non-profit organization supported by sister organizations around the world. It is consistently audited by a multinational auditor company and operating under the formal agreement with the Indonesian Ministry of Forest to conserve and rehabilitate orangutans. BOS manages orangutan rescue, rehabilitation and re-introduction programmes in East and Central Kalimantan. With almost 1000 orangutans to care for and over 400 staff BOS is the biggest primate conservation NGO worldwide. BOS is employing top notch professionals in the fields of biology, specifically primatology, of psychology, veterinary medicine, botany and forestry.Assistant Coordinator for Releasable Orangutan Care
Responsibilities:
- Ability to train, mentor and discipline care takers
- Make animal caretaker time schedules incl. rotation and vacation planning
- Identify all orangutans individually by sight alone
- Suggest and discuss seating plans and social grouping for orangutans with the Coordinator of Orangutan Care
- In cooperation with Coordinator of Orangutan Care , develop/revise SOPs, implement SOPs
- Coordinate and supervise all sanitation, orangutan handling, grouping, feeding, enrichment, and training by staff inside the releasable orangutan department, and across departments with Veterinary and Technical Service staff.
- Inform Veterinary department daily on perceived health of every individual orangutan.
- Understand orangutan behaviour, supervise standard data collection and individual orangutan training by caretakers, evaluate observations and devise recommendations to the Coordinator of Orangutan Care for orangutan management on that basis
- In cooperation with Coordinator of Orangutan Care, develop standard procedures for orangutan rehabilitation, and reintroduction, implement these.
- Produce reports and summaries of activities as required by the Coordinator of Orangutan Care
- Assist in budget planning, esp. with respect to enrichment and nutrition
- Assist in planning and construction of holding facilities
- REPORTS TO: Coordinator of Orangutan Care
- STAFF MANAGED: 30 direct reports
- MAIN TASKS: Implement standards for daily routine operations, husbandry, and orangutan training, including supervision of basic behavioural recording by the care takers to provide top level care, enrichment and rehabilitation for releasable orangutans.
- Minimum S1 (Bachelor’s) degree in Zoology or Psychology
- Practical knowledge of orangutan behaviour and conservation
- At least 2 years of practical experience with rehabilitation/reintroduction of slow life history mammals
- Leadership skills
- Computer skills, especially MS office and emailing
- Fluent Indonesian language skills, spoken and written
- Basic English Language skills, spoken and written
- Knowledge of behavioural observation and recording methods
- Planning, project management, and organizing skills
- Capable of working both individually and as part of a team
- Experience with observing/censusing wild orangutans in the field
- Fluency in English, written and spoken
- Practical experience with rehabilitation/reintroduction or captive keeping of primates/orangutans.
Coordinator of Orangutan Care
Responsibilities:
- Together with Scientific Advisory Board design standards for the rehabilitation process for rescued orangutans
- Coordinate the implementation of rehabilitation standards in Samboja
- Together with Scientific Advisory Board, experts and Forestry Department design release and post-release monitoring of rehabilitated and translocation orangutans.
- Prepare and organize the implementation of orangutan release and post-release monitoring
- Support the supervisors of releasable and unreleasable orangutan care in optimising routine operations, developing/up-dating SOPs for basic husbandry, sanitation, and enrichment
- Develop, together with the Coordinator for Veterinary Medicine, a population management plan incl. social groupings, birth control, and construction of additional modern orangutan holding facilities suited for the different kinds of orangutans in the programme.
- Design basic data collection and analyses to monitor the success of enrichment and rehabilitation measures on an individual basis
- Support supervisors of releasable and unreleasable orangutan care in training animal care takers
- Provide the organisational preconditions to enable collection of scientific research data by external scientists/students that have an MoU for scientific research cooperation with the Samboja Satwa programme.
- communicate individual orangutan stories to donors’ Marketing and Fundraising departments
- write project reports in English on releasable and unreleasable orangutan activities as required by the donor(s) and BOSF
- communicate needs of orangutans and care staff to Satwa manager
- REPORTS TO: Project Manager of Reintroduction Orangutan
- STAFF MANAGED: Two direct reports, 45 in total
- MAIN TASKS: To provide top level care for all orangutans in the programme by setting the standards for daily routine operations, husbandry, and rehabilitation, and to manage the Samboja orangutan population by directing the supervisors for unreleasable and releasable orangutan care, and by collaboration with the Coordinators of Veterinary Medicine and Technical Services.
- Training in Zoology (Masters or Ph.D. level)
- Thorough understanding of ape behaviour and psychology
- Networking with experts and professionals
- Project management skills.
- Leadership skills.
- At least 2 years experience with managing multiple staff
- Fluent Indonesian language skills, spoken and written
- Basic English Languange skills, spoken and written
- Good – excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to effectively and positively interact with people in a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment
- Capability to work both individually and as part of a team
- Specialisation on Primatology or Behavioural Ecology
- Experience with observing/censusing wild orangutans in the field
- Fluency in English, written and spoken
- Experience with enrichment programmes for captive primates
- Experience with captive primate keeping in at least one WAZA zoo, a primate research facility, or a sanctuary.
All applications will be acknowledged, however only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Short-listed candidates will be requested to supply contact information of three persons for recommendations. Letter of interest and CV including contact information of three referees should be sent by email to:
Human Resources Department, BOS Foundation
hrd@orangutan.or.id
(Please indicate the position in the email subject line)
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