Adoption Coordinator

Description

Job Description: Adoption Coordinator
Classification: Salary – Non-Exempt
Salary: $34,000
Reports to: Adoptions Manager

Summary/Objective: Richmond Animal League is seeking a Full-Time Adoption Coordinator responsible for facilitating the adoption process for dogs and cats at the shelter. The Adoption Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring the well-being of animals, assisting prospective adopters, and promoting our adoption program. This role involves engaging with volunteers, maintaining records, and creating a positive adoption experience for both animals and adopters. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills, a passion for animal welfare, and a desire to contribute to our team.

Essential Functions:
1. Support and Coordinate Adoptions: Serve as a primary point of contact for adoption inquiries and facilitate the adoption process to ensure successful placements
2. Communication Management: Answer phone calls, return messages, prepare adoption-related communications, and maintain accurate records in our database
3. Volunteer Engagement: Collaborate with volunteers, providing assistance, guidance and support to adoption counselors as needed
4. Animal Care: Monitor health and well-being of animals in the adoptions area, ensure clean and sanitary animal and public spaces, provide necessary care
5. Administrative Tasks: Assist with data entry, paperwork, and administrative duties related to adoptions and animal care
6. Flexibility and Teamwork: Display initiative, time management skills, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a dynamic team environment
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Competencies: Initiative, interpersonal skills, time management, organizational skills, effective decision making, desire to be a team player, ability to work independently.

Supervisory Responsibility: This position has no direct staff supervisory responsibilities, but does support volunteer adoption counselors.

Work Environment: The work environment includes the shelter and clinic, which can have high noise levels, exposure to cleaning chemicals, animal-related allergens, and potential for bites and scratches. Physical demands may include lifting, extensive walking, bending, and standing. Work will occur both indoors and outdoors.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: This is a full-time non-exempt salary position. This role will require one weekend day per week. Regular and reliable attendance is essential.

Ideal Candidate:
1. Strong written and oral communication skills
2. Ability to effectively work with diverse groups of individuals
3. Appreciates the significance of the human-animal bond

Required Experience:
1. High School diploma or equivalent
2. Comfortable working with basic software systems/databases

Preferred Experience:
1. Bilingual (additional compensation for bilingual hires)
2. Experience with animal sheltering/veterinary software
3. Animal handling and behavior experience/knowledge

Full Time Benefits:
• Comprehensive medical, dental + vision plans
• Short-term disability
• Life insurance
• 7 Annual Holidays + 21 days/year PTO
• Retirement Savings Plan w/ match

Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

If you are interested in this position, please send your cover letter and resume to karuna@ral.org. No phone calls, please.

Job Duties

Essential Functions:
1. Support and Coordinate Adoptions: Serve as a primary point of contact for adoption inquiries and facilitate the adoption process to ensure successful placements
2. Communication Management: Answer phone calls, return messages, prepare adoption-related communications, and maintain accurate records in our database
3. Volunteer Engagement: Collaborate with volunteers, providing assistance, guidance and support to adoption counselors as needed
4. Animal Care: Monitor health and well-being of animals in the adoptions area, ensure clean and sanitary animal and public spaces, provide necessary care
5. Administrative Tasks: Assist with data entry, paperwork, and administrative duties related to adoptions and animal care
6. Flexibility and Teamwork: Display initiative, time management skills, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a dynamic team environment
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Schedule

This is a full-time non-exempt salary position. This role will require one weekend day per week. Regular and reliable attendance is essential.