Coordinator, Shelter Partnerships - NW AR

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Demonstrate kindness and the Golden Rule in our everyday actions by practicing inclusion and respect for every person for the value they bring to the table. Be a role model for the spirit of authenticity, kindness and positive influence with each other, our visitors, and volunteers as well as to the animals every day. This includes listening, being present, being supportive of others and demonstrating compassion and curiosity in conflict. • Coordinate and conduct shelter partner support activities including working directly with shelter staff on a day-to-day basis as needed on sustainable lifesaving programs in accordance with partnerships, MOUs or contracts, including participating in direct, hands-on lifesaving work. • Lead and empower volunteers and volunteer teams in support of programs with the goal of utilizing volunteers to the greatest extent possible to expand Best Friends lifesaving capacity; deliver and lead superior customer service. • Serve as a mission ambassador, representing Best Friends’ mission and vision within partner shelters; supporting training, mentoring; participate in developing resources for partner shelters on proven programs support their success in achieving no-kill; support the maintenance of statistics within targeted partners shelters. • Develop comprehensive knowledge of Best Friends’ and community partner programs to best match individuals and organizations to opportunities to support lifesaving or deliver or receive services. • Work collaboratively with and assist Best Friends’ team members in all areas of operations to develop, evolve, and implement efficient processes to achieve lifesaving goals; follow policies, procedures, and task lists, including accurate and timely communications, work completion, data entry, and recordkeeping. • Responsible for maintaining a safe workplace, valuing, and modeling safe work practices, adhering to organizational safety practices and rules, and communicating about unsafe practices and conditions. • Travel could be up to 25% primarily around Arkansas, but may include travel to neighboring states.

Prison Break. Breakout. Fixer Upper. This Old House.: Are these shows your jam? Imagine if there was a job where day-to-day was a combination of these types of shows - assisting dogs and cats to bust out of traditional shelters, where staff love them but often don’t have enough resources to save them. That’s where you come in! By working with those same shelter staff members who want to help them, you can get those animals out and give them a place to land safely at the shelter of the future, The Best Friends Pet Resource Center, where our staff can help with their rehabilitation journey. And, not only do you get to help the dogs and cats, but you also get to help the staff who try so hard to save the animals in the traditional shelter set-up by giving them support to improve their shelter, make their jobs more rewarding, and to save more animals. Shelter Partnership Coordinators are on the front line of lifesaving, playing a direct role in achieving Best Friends Animal Society’s no-kill mission and goal by selecting and pulling animals from priority shelters, and then helping priority shelter partners make enhancements to their shelter and develop and implement lifesaving programming. We’re seeking someone who is savvy with dogs and cats, loves problem solving, is great with people, and not afraid to get covered in fur to bring about the future of animal sheltering. Does this sound like a dream job to you? If so, apply today for the Shelter Partnership Coordinator role and make that dream a reality!