Executive Director position for new Animal Rights
charity Anti-Cruelty/Animal Rights 501(C)(3) in St. Louis, MO
We are a charitable trust in St. Louis, Missouri with
$2,000,000 in initial funding, two experienced and entrepreneurial
Trustees, and an unusual opportunity for an unusual person who is
courageous, resourceful, and committed to making a difference in the way
non-human animals are treated. Our long term goal is legal rights for
non-human animals, and our shorter term goals involve reducing their
institutionalized torture.
We are seeking a person who wants very much to organize
and spearhead an organization that will be aggressive in this area. Not
aggressive in the sense of high profile gestures; but, rather aggressive
in the ways that bring about change. He or she has always wanted to be
the person in charge. He or she is comfortable with, and enjoys bringing
forth, something from nothing. He or she is comfortable setting
ambitious goals and finding ways to meet them. He or she sees mistakes
as learning opportunities and doesn't say, "It's not my fault" very
often.
Degrees and experience with other non-profits are
considerations, but we are more interested in your attitude, pragmatism,
commitment to making a difference in this area, and your entrepreneurial
instincts. Your Board will consult and advise with you, and then get out
of your way and let you do your job.
Your first responsibility will be to find space, set up
our offices, hire staff, and organize our fund raising campaign. The
primary pieces of the fund raising campaign will be television ads, a
web site, an affinity card, and knowledgeable people to field calls
stirred up by our TV ads and other publicity measures. You will need to
train the people answering the phone until they are expert at turning
those calls into members and contributions. You will need to manage our
first annual competition among film schools to
produce TV ads for us. Once you have taken care of our fund raising
needs, you will be responsible for a steady stream of press releases and
other public information to support our efforts. Then you will be
responsible for either managing our own programs, and/or forming
alliances with other organizations and providing funding/monitoring for
their efforts.
Compensation is negotiable. We expect it will be in the
range of $50,000 plus benefits. We are located in St. Louis, MO, and we
will assist with the costs of relocation. Most people who live here
enjoy it and see it as an excellent place to live and raise a family.
St. Louis has most of the culture and benefits of larger cities but
without the traffic, high housing costs, and many of the other
drawbacks.
We have an affiliation with a media company that
produces TV ads and buys TV time in almost 15 markets across the United
States. By blending their expertise with ours, we believe we can build
an organization that is uniquely able to have an impact on the way
non-human animals are treated. We might even rate a paragraph or two in
the history books when the history of rights for non-human animals is
written. Who wants to help us make it happen?
If you do, please e-mail your resume to Steven Wise at
[email protected].
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