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Job Description

The Intake Support Specialist manages key animal intake and community service functions for Ruff Start Rescue, ensuring efficient, compassionate, and mission-driven intake operations. This role provides administrative support for the manager overseeing out-of-state partnerships, owner surrender and stray intake processes, transport arrival operations, intake administration, and community support initiatives, ensuring animals and pet owners receive timely, coordinated assistance.

The Intake Support Specialist provides leadership to volunteer teams supporting transport coordination, intake administration, surrender and stray communications, and out-of-state transport on-site coordination. Working closely with the Intake Manager, this position helps balance intake opportunities with organizational capacity, strengthens operational processes, and ensures compliance with organizational standards and animal welfare best practices.

As a primary on-site resource at the Princeton facility, this role oversees transport arrival operations, supports public intake interactions, assists with distributing community resources, and ensures a positive experience for community members, volunteers, rescue partners, and staff. 

This is a full time job

Contact Information

Job Contact Details

Samantha Bistodeau
Director of Operations

Closing Date: Monday, September 21, 2026

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