Animal Legal Defense Fund

Chief Operating Officer

• Oversee the Human Resources, Technology, and Operations teams, managing the Directors of each of these departments and working with them to set department strategy, vision, and culture, as well as hiring, training, supervising, mentoring, and developing team members.
• Determine and formulate policies and provide overall direction for ALDF operational activities in partnership with your department Directors and team members.
• Direct and implement business objectives to ensure optimal operations, maximize returns on investments, and increase inter-departmental collaboration and productivity.
• Identify opportunities to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of internal operations.
• Collaborate with ALDF’s Chief Financial Officer regarding shared services between the Human Resources and Finance departments, such as Payroll.
• Work with your team leaders, the Executive Director, and Senior Leadership Team to prepare reports for key stakeholders such as the Board of Directors.
• Direct the financial and budget activities for your teams, maximize outcomes, and increase efficiency.
• Work with the Senior Leadership Team and Directors to execute the annual budget planning process for your teams and monitor progress throughout the year.
• Confer with fellow leaders and staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities, and resolve problems.
• Work with other members of the Senior Leadership Team to assess organizational risk and implement measures to ensure compliance and mitigate risk.
• Ensure that ALDF is operating in a manner that reflects sound controls, high mission impact, and manageable workloads for staff.
• In partnership with the Senior Leadership Team, drive a positive, productive, and inclusive work environment at ALDF.
• Oversee the development and implementation of practices that support a healthy culture across the organization, including strong internal communications and supporting the HR Director and other leaders in executing strategies that continuously improve ALDF’s culture.
• Cultivate a positive and collaborative working relationship with fellow Leadership members and Programs staff, and support the Human Resources, Technology and Operations Directors in building strong cross-functional internal relationships.
• Serve as an engaged and active member of the Senior Leadership Team and participate in and contribute to ALDF initiatives and processes.
• Advise the Executive Director and Board on questions of organizational sustainability and other matters.
• Oversee the development and implementation of programs and projects relating to infrastructure, Human Resources, Technology, and Operations and take the lead on internal change management for such initiatives.
• Oversee the implementation and compliance with relevant ALDF policies, including record retention, technology use, employment and labor, communications standards.
• Maintain a working knowledge of significant developments and trends in the fields of animal law.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Attorney

• The Animal Legal Defense Fund summer clerkship program gives law students who demonstrate an interest in animal law the opportunity to work with and be trained by top experts in the field.
• Clerks are integral members of a program team and work on projects that further the current work of the program and advance the mission and goals of the Animal Legal Defense Fund.
• Clerks also participate in activities that will allow them to network across the organization with Animal Legal Defense Fund staff and other clerks, and engage them in the mission and goals of the organization.
• Clerks will complete research for an upcoming Aquatic Animal Law & Policy Textbook.
• Students will assist the Senior Student Programs Attorney with: Completing legal, factual, regulatory, and policy research relating to a wide variety of aquatic animal law issues, with a focus on animals used in entertainment and as companions; General editing and checking sources and citations; and Preparing written work products.
• Clerks will also assist with student chapter outreach, animal law curriculum development, and project and event planning.
• Students will help the Senior Law School Programs Attorney with: Researching self-study content for ALDF Student Chapters, including caselaw, recent legislation, law articles, and scholarship on animal law topics; Compiling materials, documents, and other content for animal law course packets; Assisting with fall project and event planning for Speak Out for Farmed Animals Month and the ALDF Student Convention; and Assisting with data compilation and transfer to a new ALDF Student Chapter and project database, with a primary focus on reviewing and organizing project grant data, summary, and photos, along with miscellaneous tasks as they come available.

Chief Operating Officer

Animal Legal Education & Scholarship Program Clerkship