
OUR IMPACT
Animal Advocacy Careers’ mission is to address the career and talent bottlenecks in the animal advocacy movement, especially the farmed animal movement.
We were founded in late 2019, through the Charity Entrepreneurship incubation program. Since then, over 50 thousand people have visited our website and many have changed their career plans based on our advice.
CASE STUDIES
INTRODUCTION TO ANIMAL ADVOCACY
ONLINE COURSE
IMPACT OF OUR SERVICES
Our online course plays a crucial role to achieve one of our priorities: support promising individuals to evaluate, explore, and prepare for high-impact career paths in the animal advocacy movement.
It introduces people to the sorts of career opportunities that exist in the space and supports them to evaluate which options will be the best fit for them and for animals.
1500 +
Sign ups
370 +
Completions
50 +
New relevant positions
Job, internship, or volunteering within 6 months
REGIONS OF PARTICIPANTS
EXAMPLES OF PARTICIPANTS' LEARNINGS
“I got new ideas concerning possible career paths that I had not considered earlier. I also feel that I am more capable of analysing my potential in possible roles more systematically than before and have more tools to do research on them.”
“I've always thought I would like to volunteer or work in a sanctuary. After this course I want to entirely focus on institutional interventions.”
“Since I started the course I found a job in an NGO focused on animal advocacy. The knowledge I have gathered in the course has provided me with a view on the movement as a whole and validates my work by making me realize the contributions I am making.”
FUNDRAISING WORK PLACEMENT
Our work placement programme is supporting and encouraging highly promising candidates to enter careers in effective animal advocacy nonprofits.
We are focusing first on offering this service specifically for fundraising roles, because our research about hiring difficulties has confirmed that nonprofits find it especially difficult to hire high-quality candidates for this type of work.
We had 206 applications, of which we’ve selected 9 to be placed at different organisations across 6 countries, working an equivalent of 3 FTE months.
206
Applicants
9
Placements
3
FTE months each
Animal Advocacy Careers is an exceptional organisation and Lauren Mee is a superb leader.
Through AAC's paid (by ACC) Fundraising Work Placement program, Lauren matched us with a very talented Development Consultant who helped enormously with our fundraising program, particularly through the year-end charitable crush so many nonprofits face.
AAC and Lauren are providing a unique and much needed resource for the animal protection movement. And each time I'm asked for advice on starting or further developing a career in animal protection, I'm reminded of how fortunate we all are to be able to point to AAC as the place to start.
— David Ebert, Co-Founder at Animal Defense Partnership
RECRUITMENT SERVICES
Our team has been working on finding highly promising candidates for roles that are especially difficult to hire for, in nonprofits within the animal advocacy movement.
22
Organisations helped
4
Hires
Our recruitment specialist has also offered a small number of consultancy calls to organisations with their hiring processes; 6 out of 8 organisations estimated the quality of the candidate that they hired was somewhat better after this consultation and 2 out of 8 organisations estimated they at least doubled the amount of candidates who applied after the consulting.
WHAT OUR PARTNERS SAY
CAREERS ADVICE
SKILLS PROFILES
Our skills profiles provide detailed guidance on specific role types within animal advocacy, focusing on the key areas that are most difficult to hire for — and thus tend to have a higher impact for animals.
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Skills profiles
4000 +
Downloads and page views
Our skills profiles include:
CAREERS ADVICE CALLS
Our career advice calls help animal advocates plan their career to help animals as much as possible. Our team has given both one-on-one and group career coaching calls, helping people to take the steps towards a high fulfilling, high impact career.
107
One-to-one calls
63
Group coaching calls attendees
20 +
New relevant position, internship, or volunteering within 6 months
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT OUR CAREERS ADVICE
“The career advice is tailored, supportive and most of all, motivating. Thank you for this.”
“He listened attentively, asked thoughtful questions, and gave practical advice and resources. He was also encouraging and warm in a way that gave me more confidence to proceed with my explorations!”
“I thought that the way he matched my interests / skills to potential career paths was super helpful. And I found the info he gave on those career options to be very informative.”
JOB BOARD
Our animal advocacy job board connects animal nonprofits with candidates looking for an animal advocacy role.
We list roles at impact-focused animal nonprofit organisations where we expect that the role has an unusually high impact potential for animals.
Our job board is also a great tool for attracting people interested in animal advocacy roles for our website. Almost 35% of our traffic arrive at our website through the job board page.
We’ve heard of 7 people who have found their roles through our job board. But since we have thousands of people visiting our job board each month, it is likely that the true number is higher.
7
People have found their roles
1500 +
Monthly users
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT OUR JOB BOARD
“Your job board at AAC was my to-go place to check for new roles available.”
“I had been looking for jobs basically anywhere in the animal movement… But once I looked at the job descriptions on your site it was actually exactly what I was looking for.”
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HOW WE CONNECT WITH INDIVIDUALS TO DRIVE CAREER CHANGE
We inspire, motivate and support individuals who want to help save animals in their careers. The content in our website and other platforms helps to educate the public about careers in animal advocacy and build a stronger movement by empowering animal advocacy organisations with more qualified talent.
7900+
LinkedIn Followers
1700+
LinkedIn Group Members
3200+
Email Subscribers
1400 +
Facebook Followers