zoo curatortoanimal facility manager
A zoo curator already meets 69% of what the animal facility manager role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.
69%
32.7/ 100
1 Share of the animal facility manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the zoo curator profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A animal facility manager role treats 13 of its required skills as things a zoo curator already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- environmental legislation
- manage budgets
- manage teamwork
- manage zoo staff
- organise zoological exhibitions
- oversee animal management
What stands in the way is 6 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 14 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A animal facility manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a zoo curator background worth leading with.
- already held read zoo reports information skills
- already held zoo exhibit design arts and humanities
- already held zoo regulations business, administration and law
- already held manage zoo staff management skills
- already held organise zoological exhibitions management skills
- already held oversee animal management management skills
All 14 carried skills, including the 13 the animal facility manager role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 6 missing skills fall into 3 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held zoo community required
- required, not held customer relationship management required
- required, not held implement strategic management required
- required, not held respond to visitor complaints required
- required, not held develop visitor engagement strategies required
- required, not held apply strategic thinking required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a animal facility manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 develop visitor engagement strategies skill · occupation specific
- 02 zoo community knowledge · sector specific
- 03 apply strategic thinking skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 14 skills that carry over
- already held environmental legislation knowledge
- already held manage budgets skill
- already held manage teamwork skill
- already held manage zoo staff skill
- already held organise zoological exhibitions skill
- already held oversee animal management skill
- already held perform project management skill
- already held read zoo reports skill
- already held speak about your work in public skill
- already held speak different languages skill
- already held work effectively with animal-related organisations skill
- already held zoo exhibit design knowledge
- already held zoo regulations knowledge
- already held study a collection skill
0 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
43 held skills the animal facility manager role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role administer treatment to animals skill
- not needed by the target role advise on animal purchase skill
- not needed by the target role analyse transportation costs skill
- not needed by the target role anatomy of animals knowledge
- not needed by the target role animal acquisition knowledge
- not needed by the target role animal breeding programmes knowledge
- not needed by the target role animal evolution knowledge
- not needed by the target role animal transport regulations knowledge
- not needed by the target role animal welfare legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role applied zoology knowledge
- not needed by the target role assess the compatibility of individuals and animals to work together skill
- not needed by the target role breed reptiles skill
- not needed by the target role budgetary principles knowledge
- not needed by the target role chair a meeting skill
- not needed by the target role coordinate events skill
- not needed by the target role coordinate export transportation activities skill
- not needed by the target role coordinate import transportation activities skill
- not needed by the target role corporate social responsibility knowledge
- not needed by the target role create safe working protocols skill
- not needed by the target role develop recreation programmes skill
- not needed by the target role develop zoonotic disease control policies skill
- not needed by the target role ensure health and safety of staff skill
- not needed by the target role ensure health and safety of visitors skill
- not needed by the target role establish daily priorities skill
- not needed by the target role fix meetings skill
- not needed by the target role follow company standards skill
- not needed by the target role liaise with local authorities skill
- not needed by the target role liaise with transportation companies skill
- not needed by the target role maintain catalogue collection skill
- not needed by the target role maintain professional records skill
- not needed by the target role manage logistics skill
- not needed by the target role manage recreational facility skill
- not needed by the target role manage staff skill
- not needed by the target role manage supplies skill
- not needed by the target role physiology of animals knowledge
- not needed by the target role prepare transportation routes skill
- not needed by the target role promote recreation activities skill
- not needed by the target role recreation activities knowledge
- not needed by the target role represent the organisation skill
- not needed by the target role schedule recreation facilities skill
3 further entries not listed here
2 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held zoo community required
- required, not held customer relationship management required
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.