Shelter Engagement Specialist

🔥 21 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $59k - $65k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Best Friends Animal Society

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1984

🤝 Non-profit

🤲 Charity

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Charity • Social Impact

Best Friends Animal Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the number of homeless pets and promoting no-kill animal shelters throughout the United States. The organization operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals, providing adoption, spay/neuter, and educational programs to support animals in need. Best Friends Animal Society strives to reach a no-kill goal by 2025, emphasizing community involvement, animal advocacy, and fostering to prevent the unnecessary euthanization of pets. The society's work is supported by donations, volunteers, and partnerships, aiming to save them all and provide a safe haven for abandoned and injured animals.

📋 Description

• Assist in developing and implementing lifesaving programming within priority partner shelters to help them achieve no-kill status • Perform hands-on lifesaving work at partner shelter locations and virtually • Provide ongoing coaching and mentorship to help shelters implement programming and achieve a 90% save rate • Provide lifesaving training directly to shelter staff and volunteers • Participate in team-building activities with shelter staff to enhance buy-in • Support sustainable lifesaving programs, including progressive pet retention, adoptions, transport, return-to-owner, and return-to-field • Serve as a mission ambassador within partner shelters • Support training and mentoring and develop resources for partner shelters • Support maintenance of statistics within targeted partner shelters • Deliver customer service to partner shelters, community stakeholders, and others • Develop and maintain knowledge of Best Friends’ and animal welfare best practices • Reach set goals for implementation of offers of support for reduced shelter killing • Collaborate with Best Friends’ team members to develop, evolve, and implement efficient processes • Follow policies, procedures, task lists, communications, data entry, and recordkeeping requirements • Respect partner policies when working in partner facilities

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in animal welfare in a shelter environment is required, preferably for 5+ years • Comfortable presenting/training in person and virtually, to individuals as well as large groups • Extensive experience with Microsoft Office programs • High school diploma or GED required • Must be able to travel regularly up to 50% for shelter presentations and trainings • Must be detail-oriented with excellent verbal and written communication and editing skills • Must have excellent critical thinking, organizational, strategic planning, and problem-solving skills • Valid driver's license • Ability to be added to Best Friends insurance • Ability to travel, including overnight stays • Ability to work indoors and outdoors in a variety of weather conditions including extreme heat and cold • Ability to lift up to 40 pounds, carry, reach, stoop, squat, clean, and bend • Applicants for employment in the U.S. must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S. by Best Friends Animal Society.

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