Community Initiatives Manager

SPARC

Job Description

At SPARC, we understand the profound impact stories and messages have on pet families. We help the animal care and well-being sector strengthen, grow, and do its best work for pets and people through narrative change.

The Community Initiatives Manager will be integral in mobilizing better narratives through an active, engaged online community of animal welfare practitioners. You will expand SPARC’s audience, build innovative, empathic online spaces for learning, and champion better messaging and storytelling. The right candidate will recognize and respect the love and deep connections between pets and people from all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. You will be excited to launch ideas from scratch and have the creativity and energy to ensure they flourish.

The Community Initiatives Manager is a new position that will play a vital role in helping SPARC achieve our mission. You will work remotely (within the United States), with some travel expected (~10%), and report directly to the Executive Director. The role is full-time (approximately 40 hours a week) with the possibility of occasional evening work to support the training program. Salary is $77,000 annual.

--> Experience
- Have previously built or managed an online community (either professionally or personally) and have grown it to a significant size.
- Tech savvy and a track record of engaging audiences through online community platforms and content such as: blogs, newsletters, and social media posts.
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--> Qualifications
- Passion for the well-being of animals and people, and a commitment to approaching people and issues with respect, empathy, and patience.
- Solid understanding of the animal care and well-being sector and knowledge of current animal welfare and sheltering issues.
- Ability to create inclusive and accessible learning environments for virtual and in-person participants.
- Strong communication skills that include deep, active listening and expressing complex ideas and concepts concisely and clearly to different audiences.
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills; successful experience in working with diverse people of varying age, socioeconomic background, race, ethnicity, gender, and identity.
- Committed to learning, adapting, and growing both as an individual and as part of a community.
- Maintain confidentiality, discretion, integrity, and professionalism in day-to-day and challenging situations.

--> SPARC Statement on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Inclusion is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation at SPARC. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich our team and allow us to achieve SPARC’s mission. We are committed to excellence in messaging, learning, and research as inextricably linked to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

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This is a full time job