ASPCA

Manager

• Develop a strategic framework for cultivating ASPCA celebrity ambassadors.
• Design and implement a celebrity partner retention strategy that fosters authentic, value-aligned relationships with celebrities, building long-term partnerships that amplify the ASPCA’s mission.
• Serve as the primary internal point of contact for celebrity engagement efforts, working closely with the external celebrity/media agency to ensure alignment and execution.
• Develop personalized outreach strategies, including written ask letters and proposals, to secure celebrity participation in key initiatives.
• Maintain a comprehensive internal database of talent contacts, engagement history, and partnership status that supports continuity and relationship management.
• Align celebrity engagement efforts with organizational priorities, including fundraising, advocacy, and brand visibility.
• Build and manage a structured engagement calendar to support ongoing activations and maximize impact.
• Monitor industry trends and identify opportunities for strategic partnerships.
• Negotiate agreements and participation terms with celebrity representatives.
• Oversee project planning and execution for celebrity-related initiatives, ensuring clear timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder alignment.
• Organize and facilitate meetings by creating agendas, capturing notes, and developing actionable next steps.

Senior Manager, Celebrity & Talent Relations

• Coach and provide leadership, direction, motivation, and supervision of direct reports and flex workforce, ensuring we develop, reward and retain staff members
• Develop and engage direct reports through regular interaction and discussion of progress towards individual, departmental and organizational goals, ASPCA behavioral competencies and core values
• Model and provide an environment that supports and expects productive engagement and communication; with each other, internal and external partners and stakeholders
• In collaboration with the Director, manage and provide oversight of staff and flex workforce drivers, including on-boarding, training, motivating, and resolving conflicts, ensuring adherence to all guidelines and SOPs related to the safe and humane transport of animals
• Embody feedback as a key tool of coaching and team development, seeking opportunities to share feedback and encourage it in others; Track department and individual performance; resolve and elevate challenges as they arise, give and receive timely, productive and relevant feedback and celebrate successes
• Lead with care and concern for the safety and well-being of self, animals and others, especially during stressful situations
• Coordinate with Extended Workforce and employer of record to gather information for leadership regarding employment, management and performance of flex workforce
• Lead established hiring committee for flex workforce and provide candidate screening and preparation, hiring recommendations, onboarding and support
• Lead the continuing development of a healthy and balanced working environment for self and team using communication, flexibility and support, by strategically prioritizing and completing work projects and tasks
• Identify current and future training and growth opportunities for direct reports and engage direct reports in proactive and long-term career pathway discussions for high-performing individuals within the Relocation and Placement team
• Conduct feedback sessions and annual performance reviews; focus on developing team members’ interpersonal, communication and time management skills and role specific skills with a goal of elevating performance through active, actionable feedback
• Oversee updated project information utilizing selected data collection processes; research, provide metrics and prepare materials for scheduled and impromptu reports utilizing existing framework and prescribed data platforms for communication with internal and external partners
• Coordinating with leadership, the Senior Manager will plan and coordinate work to support ASPCA teams across departments as requested
• Maintain positive relationships and establish efficient methods of communication with relevant vendors and internal stakeholders (People Team, Finance, Procurement and Real Estate and Facilities)
• Design and schedule regular, professional communication with program staff and team members to obtain feedback or ideas for improvement
• Partner with the Directors, Senior Managers and Managers to create, maintain and update all relevant Standard Operating Procedures and training materials
• Working with the Manager, Resources and Engagement to oversee the incident report process. Participate in purchasing, tracking and maintenance of program assets and supplies, including ordering and implementing updated technology for the relocation team
• Engage in regular, professional communication with program staff and team members to obtain feedback regarding program growth and opportunity
• Support the Director’s work with partners, staff and contractors to create and implement action plans
• Promote ASPCA tools and resources to partner organizations and internal staff to expand national relocation efforts
• Keep all internal and external participants informed, motivated and engaged. Participate in planning celebrations when milestones toward goals are reached
• Support the department’s work with internal and external committees and groups to advance the work of animal welfare and the ASPCA
• Learn and demonstrate proficiency in scheduling and route planning systems to provide support for logistics and drive teams while they are on the road, even after normal working hours, in the event of an issue or problem, such as inclement weather conditions
• Periodically accompany or meet program drivers on assignment in the field to provide evaluation, coaching and training regarding individual and program standards, performance and processes
• Develop and maintain a solid knowledge of safety requirements for animal transport and handling by ground and air including knowledge of OSHA requirements
• Support the department’s work with internal and external committees and groups to advance the work of animal welfare and the ASPCA.

Senior Manager, Animal Relocation – Performance and Engagement

• Develop and manage data collection, aggregation, reporting, and evaluation systems across departments at the ASPCA
• Manage organization-wide data collection, the centralized database, as well as related data visualizations
• Develop procedures for data input, data reporting, analysis, and integration
• Collaborate with multiple internal and external partners to ensure work is executed on schedule and consistent with protocols to ensure data quality
• Create documents for communicating data findings for multiple stakeholders
• Guide the interpretation of research findings and their application to decision-making and messaging for ASPCA programs
• Identify opportunities for and build data visualizations that accurately and effectively communicate the data
• Recommend data sources to be used in research activity or programmatic evaluations, and articulate their meaning
• Conduct analyses of data to compare and evaluate various courses of action
• Provide administrative support to other researchers, such as data management, cleaning, or data visualization
• Analyze data and articulate findings
• Conduct academic literature reviews

Senior Manager, Strategy and Impact Measurement

• Develop and execute recruitment, engagement and communication plans to achieve network growth and advocacy goals
• Develop trainings, workshops and advocacy opportunities to help farmers tell their stories to the media, lawmakers and the public, including drafting content like LTEs, public comments, testimonies, quotes for the media and social media posts
• Set up surveys, check-ins, farm visits and community events to ensure that farmer leaders, members and potential members feel supported, empowered, engaged and understood in their challenges
• Represent the network with media, farmer audiences, other non-profits in this space and lawmakers
• Plan and execute regular events, especially legislator farm tours, but also virtual and in-person farmer listening sessions, policy briefings, advocacy trainings, conference events and fly-ins – often in collaboration with our Government Relations team and other departments
• Coordinate all event logistics including scheduling, travel, lodging, venues, food and materials
• Develop and manage short and long-term work plans, deliverables, timelines, calendars, contact lists and tracking systems for the network
• Develop tools and systems that facilitate communication amongst leaders, members and from the network to its members
• Provide regular updates and strategic recommendations to network partners

Senior Manager, Farmer Advocacy

Director

• The Director, Scholarship Management, leads the day-to-day operations of the ASPCA Veterinary Scholarship.
• The Director ensures that the scholarship program aligns with the organization’s strategic goals for access to care and impact, and that the program's goals, eligibility criteria, application timelines, and evaluation rubrics are consistent with organizational values, objectives, and standard practices.
• The Director also leads the creation and implementation of the ASPCA Veterinary Scholar Network, ensuring that current and former ASPCA Scholars remain engaged with the organization throughout their award lifecycle and beyond.
• This position requires a great deal of initiative to develop and launch a new program while learning and adjusting along the way.
• The Director will oversee the external scholarship management firm and guide the collaboration with Legal, Finance, and Communications.
• The Director will also be comfortable working independently to make sound and timely decisions while navigating potential ambiguity in launching and managing two new programs.