Careers

Responsibilities :

• Managing the Feed Formulation activities and coordination with all other veterinarians at WSOS.
• Examining animals and checking their health status
• Dressing the wounds of injured animals
• Maintains animal health by diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries.
• Determines the nature of disease or injury by examining birds and/or large and
  small animals.
• Restores animal health by treating animals surgically or medically.
• Capable of diagnosing diseases remotely and advising the large animal/ small
  animal caretaker on treatment protocols over the phone.
• Prevents rabies, brucellosis, and other disorders by testing animals and
  providing inoculations.
• Promotes the health of animals by advising animal caretakers about sanitation
  measures, feeding, and general care.
• Documents actions by completing and updating forms, reports, and animal
  records and reporting diseases.
• Enhances the organization’s reputation by accepting ownership for
  accomplishing new and different requests, and exploring opportunities to add
  value to job accomplishments.
• Nutritional evaluation of different feed ingredients.
• Providing technical service support.
• Proactively managing critical medicine inventory and its norms.

Skills

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree
• Experience of at least 6 months-1 year in the same field
• Fluent in English, Hindi, and Marathi (speech and script)
• Work experience as a Veterinarian, Veterinary Technician or Veterinarian
  Assistant
• Experience conducting various types of surgeries, vaccinations, and health
  checks on animals
• Knowledge of medical equipment (e.g., X-ray machines) and anaesthesia
  procedures
• Problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain medical terms and
  conditions using simple language
• Availability to take evening or weekend shifts in cases of emergency
• Patience and love for animals

Responsibilities :

• Assisting the foundation in the selection, implementation and monitoring of charitable grants for social causes.
• Fostering relations between the organisation and grantees
• Reporting on foundation and grant utilization progress activities to top management
• Assist in development and recommendation of the grant budget. 
• Draft grant proposals and supporting documents based on the funding requirements of the organization.
• Submit proposals to grant coordinators for approval.
• Maintain positive relationships with fund providers and other stakeholders.
• Maintain records and submit reports related to grant opportunities.
• Study and understand the history, structure, objectives, programs and financial needs of the organization.
• Travel to attend meetings or news conferences
• Perform any other related duties as assigned 

Skills and Experience:

• A master’s degree in Social Welfare 
• Experience of working with charitable organizations, social causes and NGOs will be an added benefit
• Good leadership qualities, Logical and analytical thinking skills
• A passion for social welfare community support, charitable cause and animal welfare
• Ability to work with different types of people
• Work as a team player and be able to motivate staff members 
• Willingness to work from office or site for 6 days in a week 
• Excellent writing and speaking skills 
• Excellent organizational and team coordination abilities
• A pleasant personality
• Proficient in Hindi, English and Marathi – both written and verbal.
• Ability to complete tasks according to timelines.
• Ability to multitask and handle a variety of projects at once.
• Outcome Oriented person

Responsibilities :

• Develop an understanding and awareness about Wildlife SOS work.
• Make presentations and calls and explain about the organization’s work to members of the public in a clear and interesting way.
• Meet set income targets by signing paid supporters and individual donors for Wildlife SOS.
• Develop and manage long term relationship with donors and upgrading them up the donor pyramid.
• To aid the Fundraising and volunteering team.
• To Influence donors to donate or sponsor animals or provide volunteer services by following a prepared script to give organisation’s reference information.
• To ensure that fundraising and resource mobilization information are up to date.
• Manage information and record the profile and fundraising activity of donors on a database.
• Motivate and facilitate supporters to maximise the funds they raise.
• Inspire new supporters to raise money, while maintaining and developing relationships with existing supporters.
• To develop and generate volunteer and donor queries to support BBRC project.
• Any other activities or assignments as requested by the Management.
• Going for appointments.
• Assisting during stalls.

Responsibilities :

• Review and update all human resources policies to meet the organizations needs
• Plan and facilitating HR activities in the team: contract, recruitment, employee relations
• Handle employee grievances formally and informally, forward them to concerned department and follow up for resolution.
• Play the role of employee champion by knowing and counselling their employees as and when required.
• Ensure to develop job descriptions for current/new positions
• Assist the organisation by developing and keeping a list of potential candidates for quick recruitment at any given point of time
• Conduct police verification for employees, employee verification through references, past positions held, due diligence of candidates considered for recruitment
• Maintain current organizational chart and current staff contact list
• Process documentation and prepare reports relating to personnel activities (staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, performance evaluations etc.)
• Handle employee grievances and develop a diplomatic grievance handling method through confidence building and employee recognition.
• Assist the progress of job planning and performance management
• Support for procedures or papers relating to personnel or staffing issues
• Conduct instruction for staff members about admin and hr procedures
• Update and maintain the training database of all the staff
• Develop and maintain updates and historic records of staff for HR and legal purpose
• Organise staff skill building and also employee bonding exercises
• Scheduling job interviews and assisting in interview process
• Orienting new employees to the organization (setting up a designated log-in, workstation, email address, etc.)
• Maintaining current HR Files and employee databases
• Other HR related assignments
• Acting as a first point of contact: dealing with correspondence and phone calls
• Reminding the founders/CEO of important tasks and deadlines
• Managing databases and filing systems
• Collating and filing systems
• Develop quick understanding of the wider groups, internal organization was of working
• Maintain all hard copy and digital records for ongoing executive projects
• Reporting to the deliverables and assignments as and when requirements by the management

Key Skills:

• Graduate/postgraduate in Human resources.
• Proficient in Hindi & English both written and verbal.
• Go-getter and a team player who is excited about the vision of Wildlife SOS
• Should be good at Excel and Power point
• Task and time management abilities are important with ability to prioritise
• Should be a fast learner with the ability to multitask and work under pressure
• Professional demeanor.
• Ability to complete tasks according to timelines.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to multitask and handle a variety of projects at once.
• Outcome Oriented.
• Team player

Responsibilities :

• Source and recruit volunteers through various techniques (databases, e-mail, social media etc.)
• Planning and organizing events, including site selection, logistical arrangements, purchasing supplies, promoting events, scheduling and being the primary point of contact for the event.
• Produce schedules for everyday activities
• Assign responsibilities to the right people for special events
• Coordinate teams of volunteers for large-scale actions
• Communicate frequently with volunteers to ensure they are satisfied and well-placed
• Using marketing tools such as outreach programs, e-mails, and volunteer databases.
• Periodic evaluation of volunteers.
• Community outreach activities.
• Fundraising
• Disseminate information for upcoming actions and events
• Keep detailed records of volunteers’ information and assignments
• Εnsure the purpose of the organization and its actions is clearly communicated
• Other administrative and management duties as assigned.

Skills:

• Graduate/postgraduate in mass media or communications for development 
• Excellent writing skills 
• Excellent organizational and team coordination abilities
• A pleasant, outgoing personality
• Proficient in Hindi & English – both written and verbal.
• Ability to complete tasks according to timelines.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to multitask and handle a variety of projects at once.
• Outcome Oriented.

Responsibilities :

• • Working closely with the Communications team, reporting to Head of Communications and Co-Founders
  • Coordinating with graphic designer to create collaterals, posters, infographics etc
  • Coordinating with field staff and photographers for content or project execution
  • Celebrity engagement – approaching new celebrities, building celebrity database and converting them into supporters/donors/patrons, organizing celebrity visits to the centres
  • Handling all filming projects – Liaison with filming production houses, broadcasters, filming cast and crew, coordinating with various teams 
  • Working closely with the press team to coordinate video interviews, media filming, potential new press stories etc
  • Develop new and imaginative online and offline campaigns and out-of-the-box activities, creating a yearly calendar
  • Organizing and coordinating small scale and large scale events, national and international workshops, seminars
  • Organizing, coordinating with tour operators and other relevant persons for annual expeditions (Founders Trip)
  • Organizing and coordinating digital events, webinars, panel discussions, interviews
  • Thank you calls or emails to people who have donated and/or attended an event
  • Networking with people and HNI’s at events.
  • Creative content creation, video production, creative direction – working closely with the videographer and editor to ideate, execute and deliver final product
  • Updating and tracking various sheets including annual metrics, events, celebrities, donors etc
  • Creating presentations for various events
  • Ideating, scripting, recording and editing the WSOS podcast (Elephant Tails)
  • Organizing interviews with famous personalities, drafting scripts, recording and editing WSOS talk show
  • Regular follow ups and updates to donors, supporters and stakeholders
  • Approaching new corporates/organizations for partnerships or collaborations, managing existing brand partnerships 
  • Drafting proposals for partnerships and collaborations
  • Working with the legal team to create or edit MoU’s or other legal guidance
  • Coordinate with accounts department periodically and as required to end out donation receipts
  • Develop strategies to encourage new or increased contributions.
  • Researching and signing up for upcoming events and conferences
  • Assist communications team with additional help in other areas
  • Assisting with rescue calls and coordinating with rescue team as and when required

  Skills and Experience

  • Graduate/postgraduate in Communications field
  • Established understanding in Public Relations.
  • Must be a people person 
  • Excellent speaking skills – Confident in speaking to small or large groups of people
  • Excellent writing skills (English) and verbal communication skills.
  • Proficient in Hindi & English – both written and verbal.
  • Basic Understanding of prospect donor target markets (ie HNI, CSR, Foundations, Rotary/Lions)
  • A detail oriented person.
  • Ability to work in a team
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
  • Have a flexible approach to work
  • Diligent Worker
  • Ability to Multitask and handle a variety of projects at once
  • Ability to work on their own to drive projects through to completion
  • Should be able to travel to field sites on a short notice
  • Be comfortable to work on field as and when required

Responsibilities :

Collateral & Reports
Will be responsible to support the team in the development of all key collaterals and communication tools for Wildlife SOS.  This will include the drafting and development of copy/content for all collaterals and publications, the regular capture of case studies from the field and proof-reading and editing. Specific tools and collaterals will include, but not limited to, the following:

• Collaterals – Organisational brochure/case for support, program brochures, fact sheets, caselets
• PowerPoint presentations – Responsible for providing inputs into the development and dissemination of PPTs and presentations for Wildlife SOS, case for support, each program and sub program of Wildlife SOS.
• Annual Report – You will be responsible for the collation of content for the ACF annual report in alignment with the AR theme and style (as set by Communications Consultant & Graphic Designer). This will include copywriting, selection of images, internal reports, and testimonials.
• Other publications – You will be responsible for contributing to the development of copy and editing of other internal and external publications i.e. knowledge sharing papers/publications.

Content Support – Digital
You will support the team in the development of quality content to support all online platforms.  This will include, but not limited to:

• Website: You will help provide content for the development of the new Wildlife SOS website and provide new case studies and stories regularly to update and refresh website content.
• Blog: You will work as part of a team to plan and write content for the Wildlife SOS blog. This will include up to 20 articles every month.
• Monthly Newsletter – Responsible for facilitating the planning of 12 x Wildlife SOS Newsletters, including identification of 6-8 story ideas, drafting of stories, and editing. This will also include the oversight of other contributors.  You will also be responsible for driving dissemination growth and strategy, including expansion of the database and overseeing regular update of database.

Content Support – Events & Media
Where necessary you will support the Events & PR Manager, and Media Manager in the preparation of media releases, content for event invitations and collaterals, and other information to support these two functions.

• Media: You will help write media releases, prepare press kits, write articles for feature publications and collate content to inform journalists of the work of Wildlife SOS.
• Events & PR: You will help with the preparation of content and collaterals for wildlife SOS events and PR activities.

Grant Writing, Donor Proposals & Reports
You will provide support to the team for the development of draft content for Wildlife SOS grants, donor proposals, and reports.  This will involve liaison with program managers to gather content and the organization of content in alignment with donor requests and questions.

• Grant Applications – You will play a role in drafting grant applications for a variety of funding opportunities – outlining and developing a strong argument for the need for wildlife conservation in India, and presenting the work of Wildlife SOS and the impact it has created over the years.
• Donor Proposals – You will work with the Fundraising manager to prepare donor proposals and templates.
• Donor Reports – You will work with the Fundraising Manager to draft donor reports regularly, including the collation of case studies, images, and impact data from the field.

Skills and Experience:

• Graduate/postgraduate in mass media or communications for development OR Social Work Graduate with interest/passion for Communications.
•  3-5 years experience in a Communications or journalism role.
• Excellent writing skills with the ability to write in different styles and voices.
• An understanding of the Media and Digital platforms.
• Proficient in Hindi & English – both written and verbal.
• A good eye for design.
• Professional demeanor.
• Ability to complete tasks according to timelines.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to multitask and handle a variety of projects at once.
• Outcome Oriented.