Best Friends Animal Society

Research Analyst

• Support shelter attribute data reconciliation efforts across multiple platforms.
• Research and document discrepancies at the individual organization level.
• Flag inconsistencies for review by senior team members.
• Collaborate with Programs and/or Network teams as needed to gather information and validate findings.
• Research organizations to document required information in preparation for data collection.
• Maintain accurate records in Airtable.
• Identify potential organizations not currently in our database.
• Reconcile open-source data collection checklist data to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Communicate progress, questions, and findings to team members through regular updates.
• Document processes and procedures to support knowledge sharing within the team.
• Compile shelter metrics into a standardized template as needed.
• Management of a shared email inbox as needed.
• Perform other data collection, research, and quality tasks assigned.

Data Research Specialist

People Operations

• Uphold a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, trust, inclusivity, and respect by modeling Best Friends Animal Society's Guiding Principles.
• Provide proactive, high-level administrative and strategic support to the Directors, Senior Directors, and broader People & Culture team to ensure smooth operations, follow-through on priorities, and overall departmental effectiveness.
• Support and help lead execution of culture-related initiatives, team-building efforts, and wellbeing activities.
• Help organize and track employee data, surveys, and reporting-overseeing Workday reporting requests and ensuring accuracy, confidentiality, and compliance with internal standards.
• Coordinate the pre-boarding process for new hires, including verification, onboarding forms, I-9 compliance, and welcome kit distribution.
• Schedule and support onboarding sessions such as new hire check-ins and Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) sessions.
• Assist with department-wide engagement initiatives such as PAWS Week, employee service awards, and survey administration.
• Maintain key people & culture resources and systems, including the Point Person Directory, Best Friends Connect content, and Fetch platform updates.
• Prepare and manage departmental administrative and operational needs, including expense reports, invoices, scheduling, and presentation materials.
• Maintain and organize legal and employee records in accordance with internal policies and compliance requirements; provide administrative support for Employee Relations (ER) initiatives as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

People & Culture Operations Specialist

Recruitment

• Consult with and build relationships with candidates, hiring managers, and colleagues to foster trust, build credibility, and ensure a positive candidate, hiring manager, and colleague experience reflective of the Best Friends culture and brand.
• Manage daily staffing requisition workload and carry out all functions of the recruiting and hiring lifecycle from position requisition through a new employee's start date.
• Facilitate recruitment strategy calls for new requisitions with the hiring manager and other stakeholders.
• Determine search strategy, create job ads and post positions internally and externally that attract diverse talent.
• Build candidate pipelines, search for qualified candidates according to relevant job criteria, using databases, social media, networking, internet recruiting resources, non-profit and animal welfare publications, cold calls, and employee referrals.
• Review applications, pre-screen applicants, arrange hiring manager/team interviews, create offer letters, initiate pre-employment checks, and hire candidates.
• Assist with applicant tracking system (ATS) testing as new functionality is released.
• Perform data entry into ATS to facilitate the hiring and onboarding process.
• Run candidate and new hire reports as needed.
• Mentor managers and employees on staffing and people policies, and procedures as needed.
• Travel up to 10% of the time for in-person client visits, participation in job and career fairs, and attendance at other Best Friends-sponsored events.
• Perform other duties as assigned.​

Data Research Specialist

People & Culture Operations Specialist

Talent Acquisition Partner