Description
The Louisiana SPCA is seeking its next Director of Animal Services to lead a critical, high-impact division at a pivotal moment of growth and stabilization. This is a role for a leader who is as comfortable developing people as they are managing operations, someone who can bring clarity, steadiness, and connection in complex, emotionally demanding work.
The Director of Animal Services will oversee a multi-site, multi-function operation that includes animal care, field services, intake, adoptions, and community-facing programs. While the scope is operational, success in this role is deeply human. This leader will be responsible for bringing teams together, supporting managers, and helping the broader organization operate as a cohesive whole in service of a shared mission: creating a more humane community for people and pets.
This is a broad and dynamic leadership role overseeing multiple core functions of the Louisiana SPCA’s Animal Services division. Responsibilities include:
- Leading and supporting a team of managers across animal care, field services, intake, adoptions, and related functions
- Ensuring alignment and coordination across departments to improve outcomes and support smooth collaboration
- Translating organizational priorities into clear, actionable plans
- Supporting and strengthening community engagement and partnerships
- Overseeing shelter operations across multiple locations
- Contributing to disaster preparedness and emergency response efforts
- Managing budgets, resources, and operational performance
- This role operates within the organization’s EOS framework. While prior experience with EOS is not required, the Director will be expected to engage with its tools and approach over time, using them to support clarity, accountability, and team alignment.
Requirements
The work of Animal Services at the Louisiana SPCA is complex and demanding. This role requires both strong leadership capability and meaningful experience within animal welfare or a closely related field.
- Senior leadership experience managing teams in complex, people-centered environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead through others and develop managers
- Experience navigating multi-function operations or similarly complex systems
- Strong operational and organizational management acumen
- Comfort working in a structured, accountability-driven environment
- A deep commitment to animal welfare and community impact
- Direct experience in animal welfare, animal services, sheltering, or a closely related field
Additional Considerations
- Ability to obtain a valid driver’s license
- Willingness to become trained in key operational aspects of the role as part of leading and supporting the team
- A sense of humor—this is serious work, but not a humorless place
