Rescue Director

Title: Rescue Director

Department and/or Team: Rescue

Reports to: Executive Director

Works with: The Rescue Director is responsible for maintaining regular and professional correspondence with our shelter partners while conducting and/or overseeing a team performing evaluations of shelter animals for consideration for our program.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Be the main point of contact for all partner shelters and work to maintain a positive relationship, working together to save lives.
• Recruit and perform initial volunteer interviews, as well as work with the Executive Director on promotions and terminations of current volunteers as needed.
• Walk shelters on a weekly basis to evaluate animals and perform dog tests for our program, or have volunteers able to perform evaluations and dog tests.
• Manage team of rescue volunteers, ensure proper training and processes, and direct them ahead of each shelter visit. Also manage admin volunteers to ensure networking albums are up to date.
• Evaluate volunteer animal reports to help determine animal suitability for APPR.
• Responsible for tagging all animals at shelters and communicating results quickly to ensure efficient lifesaving.
• Keep networking albums up-to-date and relevant as new information and/or media is obtained or animals are no longer in need.
• Obtain all pertinent information about animals from shelter staff such as medical paperwork to ensure we can make as educated a decision as possible on our ability to help an animal or not.
• Work closely with other teams to ensure smooth operations within the organization.
• Help evaluate shelters and their needs for potential partnerships.
• Function as a creative, out-of-the-box thinker to development and implement new innovative ideas that allow APPR to save more lives.
• Send updates to Leadership team on the status of new rescues on a weekly basis.
• Ensure that any and all changes in operations, needs, and policies at shelter partners are fully understood and communicated to leadership and all impacted volunteers.
• Serve on Abandoned Pet Project Rescue’s leadership team.

CONTACTS WITH OTHERS: This position will have regular contact with all shelter partners, Foster, Medical, Marketing, & Transport Directors, as well as other leadership members and team volunteers. Occasional contact with other area volunteers and fosters as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to learn and perform any and all functions held by Rescue team volunteers.
• Experience in rescue and/or shelter operations preferred.
• Ability to work virtually (phone, email) on a regular basis.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to maintain professional level correspondence at all times.
• Must be a creative thinker and approach the role strategically.
• Must be self-motivated, organized, and consistent with follow through.
• Excellent problem solving ability and ability to manage others professionally.
• Must have a HS diploma or higher degree of education.
• Must have a flexible schedule and able to communicate during normal business hours, as well as before/after hours as needed.
• Must be located in DFW Metroplex or be familiar enough with the area shelters to manage team remotely.

Time Commitment: 20+ hours per week.