Click on job titles to view details.
Are you passionate about animals and the people who love them?
Purpose of Position: Responsible for the management and oversight of shelter operations. Cultivate a team atmosphere, promote adoptions, animal enrichment programs, and ensure a high standard of animal care (physical, mental, emotional). Foster community relationships, boost volunteer programs, develop services and educate the public, manage shelter and grounds, work with veterinarians, and manage budget. If you’re ready to lead with compassion and passion, apply now to join our dynamic team. Together, we will continue to create a bright future for animals and our community!
Read more and submit your resume on Indeed.com.
DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITLIES
- Manage and monitor all aspects of the HSPS shelter operations including pet admissions, animal care, veterinary care, and adoptions, ensuring the wellbeing and development of all pets in our care.
- Train staff on the most current and effective dog and cat enrichment, behavior modification, and training methods and protocols.
- Effectively communicate with the public, staff and volunteer under stressful and emotional circumstances.
- Increase efficiency and continuously improve shelter methods.
- Help promote the reuniting and rehoming of pets with great story telling through social media and other mediums.
- Maintain facility to provide a safe and sanitary environment for animals and people. This includes the adherence to and monitoring of mandated standards (e.g., PACFA).
- Manage and develops an effective team: providing effective communication, leadership, guidance and resources. Determine staff qualifications and competency: recruits, interviews, selects, hires, trains, orients, mentors, evaluates, coaches, counsels, disciplines, and rewards. Establishes and monitors staff safety and regulatory compliance.
- Lead and collaborate on strategic goals while working with the leadership team to creatively meet all shelter needs.
- Maintain adoptable pet information on the HSPS website. Maintain adoptable pet information for upload to other websites.
- Monitor and evaluate processes and procedures to maximize efficient use of resources.
- Ensure strong communication and coordination with all municipal and law enforcement partners.
- Maintain the Shelter Operations Manual, in conjunction with the ED, to document proper procedure for all shelter activities. Train staff in proper procedures as enumerated in the operations manual. Update staff regarding procedure revisions.
- Manage external vendors to provide services as needed.
- Support the development and monitor budget for the facility.
- Support the development of policies and procedures and ensure they are updated, followed, and communicated with staff and volunteers.
$55,000 – $65,000 per year
Benefits:
- Paid time off
- Discounts at the thrift store and animal shelter
Full-time, Onsite or Hybrid DOE.
Do you love animals? Are you looking for a way to use your amazing marketing and communication skills to help better the lives of pets in need and provide critical pet related support services to their people and our community?
The Marketing and Communications Manager (MCM) role is to develop and implement marketing and communication plans and strategies including public relations, media relations, print marketing, online marketing, digital communications, key messaging, storytelling, and branding to further our mission.
Submit your resume on Indeed.com.
DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITLIES
- Communicate HSPS’s brand and initiatives efficiently and accurately via all marketing channels (website, email, printed materials, social media, video promotion, etc.).
- Collaborate with Exectuvie Director to create and manage marketing and communications strategies and calendars, including multi platform social media strategies.
- Collaborate with the Executive Director to develop the annual marketing budget.
- Oversee vendors and contract workers that help fulfill the organization’s marketing strategies (i.e. writers, graphic designers, web specialists, photographers and videographers, printers, etc.).
- Create and manage all public relations, media content and advertisements.
- Ensure marketing deadlines are met and timelines upheld.
- Lead writer/editor of written communications which includes press releases, newsletter articles, emails, social media posts, direct mail appeals, acknowledgement letters, staff communications, grants, organizational promotional materials and more.
- Graphic design of and/or overseeing of graphic design which includes direct mail appeals, newsletters, emails, social media posts, brochures, flyers, advertisements, and all other organizational promotional materials and more.
- Maintain media and public relations outreach lists.
- Oversee social media platforms, content creation, strategy, scheduling, and engagement.
- Oversee mail and email appeal creation, list management, and distribution.
- Oversee the creation and distribution of all other marketing and communications.
- Ensure branding consistency.
- Seek and develop opportunities to enhance the image of the organization.
- Create monthly progress and budget summary reports.
- Proactively identify, develop and communicate HSPS programs, animal stories and events.
Event Marketing
- Collaborate with volunteers and leadership team to create and manage all promotional materials, public relations, and media content for events.
- Oversee design and distribution of all event marketing materials and digital platforms.
Knowledge, Skills, Talent and Abilities
- 3+ years of experience in marketing program oversight.
- Ability to manage a marketing budget and meet revenue and budgetary goals.
- Ability to develop and implement marketing strategies, with the support of contract workers as needed.
- Ability to analyze the effectiveness of all marketing and communications efforts.
- Exceptional and effective communication and writing skills.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Ability to build relationships among staff, vendors, partners, and donors.
- Multi-task efficiently while managing a high-volume workload in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Ability to make decisions based on big picture goals, priorities, and needs.
- Ability to organize and plan projects, handle multiple priorities, anticipate problems and address them proactively.
- Availability to work events outside of normal business hours on occasion.
- Must be technically savvy and proficient in Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Experience in Adobe Suite, Photoshop and InDesign, preferred but not required.
- Ability to consistently demonstrate compassion, empathy, professionalism, and accountability.
- Must be willing to learn and continue training in skills relevant to our work.
$55,000 – $60,000 per year
Benefits:
- Paid time off
- Discounts at the thrift store and animal shelter
The Donor Relations and Events Coordinator’s primary responsibilities are initiating and overseeing timely and crucial donor interactions, devising strategies to engage prospective donors, and orchestrating effective fundraising events.
Our mission is to provide a safe haven for animals in need, promote adoptions, humanely reduce pet overpopulation through aggressive spay/neuter programs, support lifelong pet ownership through community programs and services, and to educate the community.
Submit your resume on Indeed.com
DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES
Donor Relations
- Maintain donor communications, including electronic, direct mail, phone, and in-person.
- Create and oversee a robust donor retention and acknowledgement program.
- Create reports and analysis to ensure fundraising success and report findings to the BOD.
- Oversee the management of donor databases.
- Maintain and utilize donor databases in fundraising activities and reporting, and to increase engagement, sustain relationships, and recognize gift impact.
- Identify new and creative opportunities to generate funding.
- Expand recurring giving, planned giving, and major gift programs.
- Collaborate with the ED on implementing strategic plan.
- Identify, educate, cultivate, engage, and solicit individual, foundation, corporate, and in- kind prospects to support program and operating goals.
- Oversee development and distribution of annual and special appeals, including the creation of online and offline communications such as newsletters, direct mail appeals, email solicitations and social media.
- Stay current with philanthropic trends and best practices in donor centered fundraising.
- Manage agency profiles on nonprofit discovery websites and partner resources (e.g. 211, GuideStar, Charity Navigator, etc.).
Event Planning
- Participate in meetings and long-term planning in partnership with Fundraising Committee.
- Plan, manage, delegate, and provide day-of oversight for special events to generate funds and increase donor/community engagement.
- Obtain event sponsors, manage sponsor benefits, facilitate communication and relationship.
- Obtain all necessary permitting and licensing for events.
- In collaboration with the Marketing and Communications Manager, assist with distribution of all event/fundraising marketing materials and digital platforms.
Grant Support
- Research new grant opportunities to support existing programs and build capacity for new programs.
- Collaborate with the ED, and any other appropriate staff to complete grant narratives, gather supporting documents, meet grant deadlines, and oversee grant submissions.
- Work with ED to oversee compliance and coordinate tracking and reporting for all agency grants.
Administrative Support
· Among other duties as they arise, this role will cross train and assist when need certain administrative activities.
Knowledge, Skills, Talents and Abilities
- 2+ years of experience in leading fundraising programs a plus
- Exceptional and effective communication and writing skills.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Excellent “people person” with the ability to build relationships among staff, vendors, partners, and donors.
- Multi-task efficiently while managing a high-volume workload in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Ability to organize and plan projects, handle multiple priorities, anticipate problems and address them proactively.
- Availability to work events outside of normal business hours on occasion.
- Must be technically savvy and proficient in Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel, as well as CRM Software, social media, Zoom, etc.
- Ability to consistently demonstrate compassion, empathy, professionalism, and accountability.
- Must be willing to learn and continue training in skills relevant to our work.
Perks of the Position
- Eventual opportunity to work part-time remote, local to the area.
- Accrued paid time off (PTO) after three months of employment.
- Discounts at the thrift store and animal shelter.
Pay: $20.00 – $25.00 per hour
Expected hours: 24 – 28 per week
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Paid time off
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Ability to Relocate:
- Pagosa Springs, CO 81147: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Do you love animals and people? Are you a superstar at motivating and organizing people and schedules? If so, the Humane Society of Pagosa Springs has a great position for you.
The position includes acting as a liaison between all volunteers and staff and being responsible for overseeing the operating framework for volunteer and recruitment, training, supervision, and recognition.
Submit your resume on Indeed.com
Some of the DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITLIES
Volunteer Coordinator
- Recruit, onboard, train and retain volunteers for the Shelter, Thrift Store, Events and special projects.
- Screen volunteer applications, conduct initial volunteer phone interviews and match appropriate candidates with volunteer tasks. Conduct home visits when necessary.
- Schedule and lead orientations and trainings for volunteers for the different roles across the organization from animal shelter to the thrift store and organization events.
- Establish and manage parameters for Community Service volunteers.
- Input volunteer data and hours in CRM software and spreadsheets, and produce reports as needed.
- Develop volunteer outreach programs and work with Executive Director and/or Marketing Director to create, develop and implement campaigns and programs to recruit and retain volunteers.
- Develop and oversee volunteer scheduling.
- Maintain and organize our animal foster program.
- Recruit, train, mentor, supervise, and serve as primary contact for foster volunteers. Establish positive relationships with foster volunteers, while ensuring compliance with all PACFA policies.
- Facilitate movement of shelter animals into foster care and oversee continuous care until their scheduled return to the shelter. This includes coordinating vaccinations, health checks, and spay/neuter surgeries.
- Keep all foster materials and programs up to date. Provide appropriate orientation materials, manuals, and handouts to all foster volunteers.
- Develop and maintain specialized foster parent training programs to ensure growth of foster programs.
- Conduct annual home inspections.
- Oversee and provide rapid response to foster animal questions and emergencies. When on-call after hours and overnight, must have a plan in place for quickly and efficiently responding to various foster emergencies.
- And many other exciting tasks as indicated in the full Job Description.
Knowledge, Skills, Talents and Abilities
- Excellent customer service and people skills.
- Excellent written, verbal and communication skills, including being comfortable with public speaking and making presentations.
- Attention to detail, ability to multi-task, and ability to work independently and as a part of a team.
- Ability to represent HSPS in a professional manner in all situations with the public, volunteers, and staff.
- Must love animals, with an ability to handle animals safely and with patience and gentleness.
- Basic computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office, CRM Software, and Zoom, social media.
- Experience working with the public providing excellent customer service.
- Reliable transportation, good driving record and ability to drive on mountainous terrain.
- Must be able to regularly lift at least 40 pounds without assistance.
Perks of the Position
- Flexible schedule.
- Accrued paid time off (PTO) after three months of employment.
- Discounts at the thrift store and animal shelter.
If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of dogs and cats pets and your community and have the skills necessary for this role, we encourage you to apply. Please submit your resume and cover letter detailing your relevant experience.
Pay: $19.00 – $23.00 per hour
Job Type: Full-time
Expected hours: 30 – 40 per week
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Paid time off
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Ability to Relocate:
- Pagosa Springs, CO 81147: Relocate before starting work (Required)