Looking for a job that impacts the animals? We’re hosting open interview days at our Atlanta location for our open Animal Welfare Specialist roles. This role starts at $15 an hour and Atlanta Humane provides an employer-paid healthcare plan, a 6% 401K match, and pet benefits including discounts with Purina and VCA.

The Process

• Fill out an application online at atlantahumane.org/aws. If you don’t have a computer or access to the internet, skip this step and we’ll let you fill it out when you arrive during our walk-in interview times.
• Print your resume, if possible, and bring it to our Atlanta location during the event timeframe.
• We’ll provide you with a tour of our new Atlanta location, and a team member will meet with you to talk about your fit with our Animal Welfare Specialist roles.

Job Description

Our Animal Welfare Specialists provide humane animal care and superior customer service in accordance with the Atlanta Humane mission, goals, and management philosophy. They support humane animal husbandry by providing physical and emotional enrichment to all animals and through feeding, cleaning, and daily maintenance of the kennel facilities. They assist adoption center guests by providing information regarding humane animal care, providing department services, facilitating visitations with animals, and completing adoption counseling, which includes exceptional human customer service, compassion for our human families, and facilitating great human-animal matches. For full job details, visit atlantahumane.org/aws.

Job Benefits

To support our team members that carry out our lifesaving work each day, we offer a comprehensive selection of affordable quality health benefits, paid time off, and financial benefits and resources.

Benefits include medical/Rx insurance, life insurance and AD&D, dental insurance, vision insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, a flexible spending account, an employee assistance plan, a 401k retirement savings plan with employer match, a financial wellness program, a public service loan forgiveness program, and more. We also recognize 11 calendar days as holidays.