Administrative Manager, Behavioral Sciences Team

Summary:

For more than 150 years, the ASPCA has been on the frontlines to save, transform and protect the lives of millions of animals. The Behavioral Sciences Team (BST) team plays an integral role in the ASPCA's commitment to champion good animal welfare and protect animals from cruelty. We are looking for a Manager, Administration to oversee the daily administrative functions and manage various projects for the department.

The right candidate for this position is so much more than a resume - please take advantage of your cover letter to tell us why you are the one we are looking for! 

The application for this position will be open until 5pm EST on Tuesday, May 12.

Who We Are

The BST supports behavior programs across the ASPCA to safeguard the behavioral health of our animals. The BST’s work focuses on:

• Promoting a holistic approach to the care of ASPCA animals that balances physical and mental wellbeing. We ensure organization-wide alignment of shelter behavior best practices, foundational tools, and behavioral data management.
• Advancing science-based processes and protocols in shelter behavior, including enrichment, socialization, and behavior modification, to improve quality of life of sheltered animals, reduce euthanasia of animals with treatable behavior problems and expedite pathway planning decisions for animals unsuitable for rehabilitation. Through strategic applied research in shelter animal behavior, we prepare ourselves and the field to care for a growing number of at-risk animals.
• Establishing psychological harm as legally cognizable animal cruelty so that animals suffering emotional trauma receive the same protections under the law as animals suffering physical harm.
• Supporting ASPCA’s cruelty and disaster operations through forensic behavior documentation, consultation, research, and subject matter expert testimony. We work closely with Legal Advocacy & Cruelty Response, National Field & Disaster Response, Forensic Science and the Cruelty Recovery Center (CRC) by deploying for animal removals, providing low stress handling, conducting forensic behavior evaluations, and supporting shelter behavior programs at temporary field shelters.

What You’ll Do

The Administrative Manager for BST is responsible for overseeing the daily administrative functions and managing various projects for the department. To succeed in this role, the Admin Manager thrives in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple people’s schedules, booking travel, creating meeting agendas, contributing to documenting, strategizing and driving projects forward, monitoring the budget, copy editing documents and drafting internal communications. The Admin Manager is a strategizing, multi-tasker who maintains a positive and solution-focused attitude, works as part of a cohesive team, and collaborates with various teams across the organization to ensure BST is working efficiently towards our 2030 goals.

• Administrative Manager reports directly to the Vice President, Behavioral Sciences Team and has no direct reports.

Where and When You’ll Work

• This remote-based position (which requires travel, as described below) is open to all eligible candidates based within the United States.
• This role will be expected to work a schedule that aligns with standard working hours in the eastern time zone and requires the ability to work evenings or weekends on occasion when needed.
• This role requires willingness to work flexible hours, long days, and weekends, as required; available to be on-call for last minute deployments.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 5% annually, as needed.

What You’ll Get

 The target hiring range is based on where the employee works, which for remote roles is the employee’s primary location of residence, and its respective cost of labor.  You can view which zone applies to you based on your location (aspca.app.box.com/v/aspcazonetable). For questions regarding locations not on the list, please send an email to Careers@aspca.orgmailto:Careers@aspca.org for more information. 

Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of factors, including but not limited to education, training, experience, location, business needs, internal equity, market deman