As an animal lover, we are sure that you will be ecstatic at finding a job advertisement for an animal adoption coordinator position!
Imagine the satisfaction that you will receive from helping rescued and homeless animals find forever homes! It is a feeling beyond anything else! A dream job? For sure!
But are you prepared to handle the intense duties of working as an animal adoption coordinator?
Working in this position does not only mean that you will be handling adoption paperwork. You may even be involved in the rescue and care of animals in the shelter that you work for.
To understand each animal’s adoption needs, you will have to work very closely with them. Deep knowledge of the animal kingdom and the various attributes each animal under care is known for.
Working as an animal adoption coordinator, you will come across many people who want to adopt animals but are not really animal lovers.
This is where your analytic and decision-making skills will come in. It will be your duty to ensure that the animal which you are giving up for adoption, finds an owner who is kind and considerate to its needs.
So what will be your actual duties? Here is a list:
Animal Adoption Coordinator Duties and Responsibilities
• Oversee and manage all aspects of the animal adoption program
• Receive applications for animal adoptions and review them to verify information in them
• Match adoptive families with appropriate animals based on their love for animals and ability to look after them
• Coordinate with prospective adoptive families to attend adoption events
• Approve or deny adoption applications based on suitability or families
• Confer and counsel clients on various animal breeds, characteristics and state adoption policies and procedures
• Develop and implement promotional tools and procedures to ensure that adoption programs are properly run
• Evaluate each animal to determine its suitability for adoption
• Assist in the development of legal documents to complete adoption processes
• Contact various mediums such as newspapers and television producers for time and space to highlight pet adoptions
• Arrange meetings between animals and prospective adoptive families to determine if they like each other
• Educate adoptive families on the specific needs of adopted animals and ways of training them according to their inherent natures
• Develop educational materials on each type of shelter animal to assist during educational workshops
• Assist adoptive families in adjusting to their new family members by providing them with advice and tips and tricks
• Check up on adopted animals to ensure their welfare and to make sure that they have settled in well