Partnerships and Programme Specialist

Animal Advocacy Careers (AAC) is seeking a passionate and driven Partnerships and Programme Specialist to join our remote team.

 As the Partnerships and Programme Specialist at AAC, you'll lead our efforts to expand our network and impact through strategic collaborations with organisations within the animal advocacy movement and adjacent sectors. Additionally, you will take the lead in being an ambassador for our proprietary database programme designed to significantly improve the retention and redistribution of talented individuals in our sector. 

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With the right person, this role has the potential to multiply the impact of our proven cost-effective programmes and reach many more people who are looking for a more meaningful career.

Requirements

As a priority: 

• Create AAC's partnership strategy, providing insights and recommendations based on industry trends, market research, SWOT analysis, stakeholder feedback, and organizational goals.
• Take primary responsibility for the promotion and external communications of AAC towards organisations and supporters, such as regular communication of our new programmes and strategic updates to relevant channels.
• To enhance AAC's outreach and visibility, develop and nurture relationships with animal advocacy organisations and others in adjacent sectors to the movement, such as universities, media outlets or governmental institutions. 
• Identify and source organisations to feature on our job board with a focus on the organisations’ priorities e.g. more adjacent sector opportunities and LMICs (Low and Middle Income Countries).
• Build and maintain relationships with existing partner organisations, ensuring effective communication and collaboration and exploring further opportunities for partnership growth and innovation.

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Programme management:

• Take ownership of the operations of AAC’s B2B candidate database, pro-actively sourcing new clients, ensuring seamless onboarding of new clients and renewals, and maintaining up-to-date documentation of users and organisations.  
• Maintain & build relationships with client organisations through a regular cadence of interactions, pro-actively assisting them with recommendations and eliciting feedback.  
• Maintain semi-regular communication and touch points  with candidates providing them with resources and motivation and  ensuring their details remain up to date so the product is as useful as possible. (A big part of this could be easily automated) 

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Ensure up-to-date evaluations and reporting:

• Take the lead in evaluating partnership effectiveness by tracking key performance metrics, gathering feedback from partner organisations, and preparing reports for internal review or external stakeholders.
• Take the lead in monthly reporting of the candidate database by tracking key performance indicators and preparing reports for internal review or external stakeholders. 

If time permits beyond the priority tasks; there will be a lot of autonomy in the role to decide what you think can help most in achieving our objectives and align best with your skills. This could be for example:

• Working with an agency to develop media and public relations
• Collaborating with other outreach channels.

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Benefits

• An opportunity to contribute to the development of an exciting early-stage nonprofit startup that works to help animals as effectively as possible.
• A highly autonomous working culture, with primary responsibility for the direction, goals, and achievements of your work produced. What this looks like in practice:
• You will create your own goals and get them approved instead of your manager creating them for you. You will receive guidance as needed, but there will not be any handholding.
• We will not control what hours you work or how you work. We will agree on due dates with you and expect you to adhere to them.
• We have monthly all-staff meetings, weekly 1:1 check-ins with managers, and additional meetings as needed. Outside of these meetings, we do not have a lot of opportunities for socialising with team members.
• This will not be the right fit for everyone, and that is OKAY. Please think carefully about it
• Fully remote work environment and team.
• Flexible working hours.
• Generous and flexible self-managed time off policy
• Optional 2 days of direct volunteering work e.g. at a sanctuary, protest, or self-care days. 
• 1-month paid sabbaticals after every 3 years
• Encouragement and support to spend at least 5% of paid time on training and development and a $500 professional development surcharge budget.
• A clear compensation policy with opportunities for promotion annually.

Please do not send us your resumes to this address - it will not be counted as an application. Our process starts with filling out this form where you can attach your CV.