Shelter Engagement Specialist

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🕒 June 18

🏈 Alabama, Florida, +10 more states – Remote

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💵 $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

• Shelter Engagement Specialists play a direct role in achieving Best Friends Animal Society’s no-kill mission and goal by assisting in developing and implementing lifesaving programming. • Perform hands-on lifesaving work, within priority partner shelters to help them achieve no-kill status. • Act with urgency to accomplish important tasks and play a direct role in achieving Best Friends Animal Society’s no-kill mission and organizational success. • Provide coaching and mentorship on an ongoing basis to help shelters implement programming to achieve a 90% save rate. • Participate in direct, hands-on lifesaving work at partner shelter locations, as well as virtually. • Travel to shelters and provide needed lifesaving training directly to staff and volunteers to help reduce the number of animal deaths. • Serve as a mission ambassador, representing Best Friends’ mission and vision within partner shelters.

🎯 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; Public speaking experience is preferred. • Experience managing volunteers is preferred. • Presentation writing and development experience is preferred. • Lifesaving program development and implementation skills are preferred. • Extensive experience with Microsoft Office programs. • High school diploma or GED required. • Must be able to travel regularly up to 50% in 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• great benefits!