MISSION
To supply sanctuary for rescued farmed animals, advance their welfare via schooling, and encourage compassion and duty towards all nonhuman animals by advocating a vegan way of life.
VISION
Animal Place is working in the direction of a world the place all animals are valued, revered, and guarded.
OVERVIEW
Greater than 10 billion land animals are raised and slaughtered for meals in the USA every year, and over 80 billion worldwide. This large industrial meals manufacturing system harms the animals, who reside in a state of continuous struggling till they face a terrifying and painful demise. It harms the atmosphere by dumping large quantities of animal waste into streams, rivers and personal wells; it additionally provides considerably to local weather change, harms the individuals who work in these industrial amenities and slaughterhouses, and poses a danger to public well being, via the overuse of antibiotics used within the animals’ feed, in addition to considerably rising human publicity to Salmonella, e-Coli, and different ailments.
Animal Place gives sanctuary for farmed animals and promotes a vegan, cruelty-free way of life difficult manufacturing unit farming, an business that takes the lives of billions of land animals every year in the USA.
Based in 1989 by Kim Sturla and Ned Buyukmihci, VMD, Animal Place is a 501 (c)(3) animal sanctuary and is likely one of the oldest, largest, and most revered sanctuaries devoted to farmed animals in the USA.
Kim and Ned, pushed by their compassion for animals, offered their houses, emptied their financial savings, and acquired 60 acres of uncooked land in Vacaville, CA to construct an animal sanctuary. Whereas transferring to their new residence, the shelter the place Kim labored took in a stray piglet, which the workers doted on and named Zelda. Zelda formally turned the primary resident.
For greater than 36 years, Animal Place has made a distinction within the lives of farmed animals within the U.S. and has fostered a compassionate group that’s working in the direction of a future the place all animals are valued, revered, and liked.
Animal Place operates in two areas: a sprawling, 600-acre sanctuary in Grass Valley, CA, that gives refuge for a whole bunch of abused and uncared for farmed animals; and the Rescue & Adoption Middle in Petaluma, CA, devoted to putting farmed animals into loving, everlasting houses.
Whereas Animal Place’s foremost mission is to offer sanctuary for farmed animals, the group firmly believes that lasting change comes from schooling and advocacy. Every year, the sanctuary welcomes 1000’s of holiday makers to study farmed animal conduct, the realities of animal agriculture, and the advantages of dietary change.
Animal Place provides hands-on alternatives, from every day animal care to group outreach. Animal Place additionally invitations everybody to place compassion into motion by selecting a vegan way of life, volunteering, donating, adopting animals in want, and even rescuing farmed animals themselves.
Nestled within the Sierra foothills, between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe, Animal Place’s everlasting shelter, a 600-acre farm, is a northern California vacationer vacation spot that cares for 200+ animals.
Animals arrive at Animal Place from small and enormous farms, slaughterhouses, public sale yards, cruelty impounds, analysis amenities, and particular person rescues. Irrespective of the place they arrive from, all animals discover a haven the place all their wants are met, and their particular person quirks are revered.
Along with offering sanctuary for farmed animals, Animal Place is an schooling and advocacy heart working to finish the cruelest manufacturing unit farming practices and promote a vegan way of life.
Animal Place provides guided excursions – public, non-public, and college group excursions – to coach folks concerning the emotional lives of farmed animals and the realities of commercial farming. The group additionally conducts cooking lessons and workshops on the sanctuary, in addition to volunteer and internship alternatives.
ANIMAL PLACE’S RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER
Animal Place’s Rescue & Adoption Middle, positioned in Petaluma, CA, homes rescued animals till they can discover their ceaselessly residence with a compassionate adopter. Beforehand often called Rescue Ranch, Animal Place saved tens of 1000’s of hens from egg farms, rehabilitated them, and positioned them in ceaselessly houses.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Animal Place’s “Meals for Thought” program helps animal safety teams show their dedication to compassion by offering them with sources that may allow them to undertake a plantbased menu coverage for his or her occasions. Animal Place observed that whereas many animal shelters and rescue facilities concentrate on the welfare of companion animals, they overlook the impression that meat, dairy and eggs have on farmed animals. Animal Place desires to assist these nonprofits increase the funds they should defend the animals they love, with out exploiting farmed animals. Animal Place addresses this by offering sources, drafting insurance policies, and providing grants to help the transition to plant-based menus.
The following Government Director of Animal Place can be accountable for the general administration of the sanctuary planning, fundraising, and program improvement.
The Board of Administrators is in search of an skilled chief to drive Animal Place’s mission and imaginative and prescient into the longer term. This chief will work intently with the Board, workers, and donors and can play a significant function in overseeing the group’s operations, guaranteeing its monetary sustainability, and advocating for animals. This is a perfect alternative for an animal skilled who desires to:
- Present refuge for animals rescued from abusive conditions, providing them a protected and loving atmosphere.
- Assist folks transfer away from the merchandise of manufacturing unit farming by educating the general public about its realities.
- Play a number one function in advocating for an finish to farmed animal cruelty by supporting laws that protects farmed animals from abuse and neglect.
- Promote plant-based diets and moral consumption decisions that cut back the demand for animal merchandise.
Animal Place has a finances of roughly $2.1M, a small however mighty Board of 5 leaders from the animal safety sector, and a devoted workers of 19.
The Board is in search of candidates who’re seasoned, efficient, and compassionate leaders. They need to have a ardour for the mission of Animal Place and have demonstrated management expertise in animal safety, sanctuary, or shelter sectors. They need to perceive easy methods to encourage via clear communication, possess excessive emotional intelligence, and have efficient, respectful, and honest administration expertise.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
The Government Director’s main duties embrace organizational management, fundraising, advertising and marketing, fiscal administration, and compliance with native, state, and federal legal guidelines. Particular tasks embrace, however usually are not restricted to, the next:
Mission and Technique
- Embody the mission of Animal Place.
- Keep present on altering messaging associated to veganism and animal rights.
- Lead the Animal Place group to satisfy its organizational mission via first-rate animal care, instructional and advocacy packages, group outreach, and strategic planning.
- Present full oversight and route of animal care, packages, campaigns, and communications.
- Be energetic and visual locally and work intently with different sanctuaries, animal safety, civic, and personal organizations to boost the picture of Animal Place and its mission.
- Function the first spokesperson with workers, volunteers, supporters, the media, and the general public.
- Function a thought chief within the subject, partaking with main animal leaders and advocates and contributing data on greatest practices for farmed animal sanctuaries and veganism.
Governance and Operations
- Present inspirational and compassionate management.
- Oversee the hiring, retention, {and professional} improvement of workers.
- Develop and implement methods to satisfy Animal Place’s mission and guarantee compliance with all inner insurance policies.
- Lead Animal Place in a way that helps and guides the group’s mission and imaginative and prescient as outlined by the Board of Administrators.
- Work with the Board to steward its monetary and different sources.
- Advance and embed Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion (DEI) into Animal Place’s tradition and all organizational buildings and actions.
Monetary Efficiency and Fundraising
- Shield the fiscal integrity of Animal Place, together with assuring that the group operates inside the annual finances permitted by the Board.
- Keep a good monetary place for the group by proactively responding to monetary challenges as they come up.
- Develop and execute long-term fundraising objectives and plans, together with a imaginative and prescient for donor relations, to make sure long-term monetary well being.
- Help engagement and fundraising efforts throughout the group.
- Work with workers and the Board to make sure compliance with all California and federal nonprofitrelated legal guidelines, together with tax, enterprise, and employment legal guidelines.
Board Relations
- Collaborate and associate intently with the Board in a respectful and collegial method to ship on organizational objectives and priorities.
- Coordinates with the BOD Chair to report actions to the Board frequently.
- Present related and well timed updates and data to the Board.
- Set up relationships with and steward members of the Board to contribute their expertise, experience, and information to learn Animal Place’s work.
Private Traits
The Board is in search of a person who’s:
- An inclusive, purpose-driven chief who authentically and successfully fashions and advances Animal Place’s mission and values.
- Humble, passionate, and an individual of integrity who conjures up belief.
- Open-minded listener who seeks and values a variety of viewpoints however can also be comfy making a last determination.
- Emotionally clever, versatile, and intuitive, with very good relationship administration expertise.
- Keen about animal safety, shelter, and sanctuary sectors; adherence to a vegan way of life most well-liked.
- In a position to simply convey Animal Place’s successes and alternatives with fervor and depth in each formal and casual conditions.
- An excellent supervisor of battle, who can navigate differing views and will be clear-minded in ambiguous conditions.
- An genuine, sincere, and moral individual as evidenced by how they reside day after day, deal with others, and function within the animal welfare sphere.
- Affected person, persistent, and resilient, and may maintain onto a imaginative and prescient or desired final result no matter obstacles.
- In a position to change ways and approaches when essential.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Data of and expertise within the animal safety subject, ideally inside a sanctuary or shelter setting; a ardour for Animal Place’s mission.
- Understanding of nonprofits and expertise working in a non-profit setting with a missiondriven workers.
- A minimal of 5 years of management and administration expertise within the nonprofit subject.
- Capacity to handle funds; assume duty for managing a finances conservatively.
- Superior supervisory expertise; efficient group builder with a robust dedication to collaborative and team-oriented administration.
- Expertise and confirmed success elevating vital funds Monitor document of cultivating and stewarding main donors and foundations.
- Expertise growing and setting targets and/or implementing strategic plans.
- Sturdy written and verbal communication expertise.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Workplace and Google functions.
- Expertise working in partnership with, and being accountable to, an engaged nonprofit Board of Administrators.
- Perception in a collaborative strategy to management.
- Distinctive listening expertise.
- Familiarity with work administration expertise (e.g. Asana, Slack, WordPress, GoFundMePro, and FreeWill).
Animal Place provides a aggressive wage and advantages package deal.
The compensation vary for this place yearly is between $120,000 and 150,000 and is commensurate with expertise. Medical insurance, PTO and different advantages can be found.
The best way to apply
If you wish to lead this dynamic group, please confidentially submit a present resume and canopy letter to Kittleman & Associates. The quilt letter is a chance to showcase your ardour for Animal Place’s imaginative and prescient and mission, in addition to organizational impression in present or prior roles.
The place will stay open till stuffed. Candidates are extremely inspired to submit their supplies no later than October 3, 2025, for greatest consideration. Submit your software right here.
