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Position Objective: As the local outreach coordinator for TeachKind, you'll strive to make the world a kinder place by helping teachers, students, and schools learn how to help animals! Your focus will be on the areas in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina where PETA’s Community Animal Project (CAP) serves and you’ll work closely with this division at PETA. Whether it's creating lessons, reaching out to schools, conducting presentations for students or teacher workshops (virtual or in-person), or organizing events to promote empathy for animals, your work will make a huge impact on teachers, students, and school communities! TeachKind's work to foster compassion for animals in young people is growing every day, and we need someone with classroom experience and knowledge in humane education to help us build strong relationships with schools in the local communities we serve.   Primary Responsibilities and Duties: • Creating lessons and conducting...

Position Objective: To use a variety of undercover investigative methods to conduct field investigations in PETA's focus areas, including the use of animals for food, clothing, experimentation, and entertainment   Location: Varies based on assignment   Primary Responsibilities and Duties: • Travel to different states and temporarily stay on location for various assignments for as long as necessary, sometimes several months at a time • Conduct assigned short- and long-term field observations from beginning to end, including the following duties: o Prepare for and research assignments, as directed by the vice president o Visit and/or obtain employment in various industries that use animals            o Submit daily log notes in a detailed and orderly fashion            o Use photography and videography to...

The Photo and Video Specialist (PVS) creates visual assets that bring Sanctuary to life for our members and the millions of people we reach on social media.  Behind every Farm Sanctuary image—moving or still—is a story of hope and compassion. The PVS will be part of a Webby-nominated team working to change the way society views and treats farm animals. Located at our 300-acre flagship Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, NY, the PVS has unfettered access to life on Sanctuary and the approximately 800 animals—herds of cows, flocks of sheep, droves of pigs, turkeys, hens, roosters, and ducks—that call Farm Sanctuary home.  The PVS reports to the Photo and Video Manager. Responsibilities: Shooting and Producing Responsible for capturing life on Sanctuary at our flagship Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, NY Capture milestones and daily life—the herds moving to pasture in the spring, the pigs rooting around the pig woods or chilling in a favorite mud puddle before disappearing into...

Shelter Caregiver Assistants are part of a team of shelter workers who are assigned one of four animal care areas each day: barn cleaning, animal feeding and watering, shelter projects, or animal health care assistance. Shelter workers must be able to complete any of the four areas assigned and complete all tasks assigned within these animal care areas. Shelter Caregiver Assistants should have a strong desire and ability to do hands-on shelter work and a personal commitment to rescuing and protecting farm animals. Shelter Caregiver Assistants are vital team members of our shelters, where providing quality animal care is the number one priority. Responsibilities: Animal feeding and maintaining animal-feeding schedules Animal watering and maintaining animal-watering schedules Barn cleaning Shelter cleaning projects as assigned Assisting with animal health care and health checks Qualifications: Good animal-behavior observation skills Able to...