Where a zoo section leader can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a zoo section leader already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Zoo section leaders are responsible for managing and leading a team of zoo keepers. They will carry out daily care and management of animals as well as, in cooperation with colleagues, long term management and organisation of the species and exhibits in their section. They are also accountable for various aspects of staff management for the keepers in their section. Depending on the size of the zoo and animal section they may have additional responsibility for appointing staff and budgeting.
Also known as head of section, zoo team leader, section leader-aquarium, lead zoo keeper, senior zookeeper, senior aquarist, senior keeper, section leader-great apes, senior zoo keeper, section leader, zoo section head.
Service and sales workers 41 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: dog breeder, 59%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A zoo section leader needs 32 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- assess environment of animals information skills
- follow zoo safety precautions assisting and caring
- manage zoo staff management skills
- organise zoological exhibitions management skills
- assist in general veterinary medical procedures handling and moving
- chair a meeting communication, collaboration and creativity
- promote animal welfare assisting and caring
- assess management of animals information skills
- care for juvenile animals handling and moving
- administer drugs to facilitate breeding handling and moving
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a zoo section leader does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- zookeeper 74% covered · difficulty 33.8
- cattle breeder 53% covered · difficulty 56.2
- fur animals breeder 53% covered · difficulty 56.2
- horse breeder 53% covered · difficulty 56.2
- pig breeder 53% covered · difficulty 56.2
- sheep breeder 53% covered · difficulty 56.2
- zoo educator 25% covered · difficulty 80
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Zoo section leader is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a zoo section leader’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.