Career Advising Specialist

Animal Advocacy Careers is looking for a Career Advising Specialist. You'll help value-aligned talent figure out where they can do the most good for animals, and then help them design a plan on how to get there.

You'll run personalised 1:1 advising sessions with AAC applicants and connections, supporting them through career planning and into high-impact positions in the animal advocacy sector, while also serving as a trusted talent scout for the movement.

• Deliver personalised 1:1 career advising sessions to AAC applicants and connections, assisting them in career planning and securing high-impact positions within the animal advocacy sector
• Manage and expand the mentorship programme, ensuring a consistent and effective flow of mentors to support particularly impactful advisees
• Maintain long-term relationships with past advisees, providing continuous support and guidance as they navigate their career paths
• Adapt the advising programme based on evolving organisational goals, including adjusting call frequency, duration, and the number of sessions per applicant
• Build and maintain a clear, evolving picture of what a top candidate looks like for the roles hiring partners are trying to fill
• Identify advisees and connections most ready for high-impact roles, and add them to the talent database with honest assessments of their strengths, gaps, and fit
• Use feedback from hiring organisations to test judgement and correct for consistent bias in candidate ratings
• Represent AAC at conferences to provide career advice and establish strategic connections within the animal advocacy and effective altruism communities
• Deliver workshops and presentations on career paths in animal advocacy, including travelling to EA chapters and groups as required
• Maintain deep expertise in the animal advocacy landscape, identifying nonprofit talent bottlenecks and high-leverage opportunities in adjacent sectors
• Analyse advisee data and industry trends to provide feedback and identify areas for service improvement
• Maintain rigorous data records of all coaching interactions, ensuring information hygiene and identifying patterns that can refine operational processes

• Ability to deliver high-quality, individualised 1:1 career advising which enables professionals to make a successful transition into animal advocacy or other roles which have potential impact for animals
• Excellent verbal communication and active listening skills; ability to build rapport quickly and adapt approach depending on who's in front of you
• Good judgement under real constraints; ability to make and defend prioritisation decisions
• Genuine motivation by doing the most good for animals
• Strong, accurate sense of how to match someone's skills and background to realistic paths, including ones they hadn't considered
• Real fluency in the animal advocacy sector: the organisations, roles, hiring patterns, and where the talent bottlenecks are right now, or a clear track record of getting up to speed quickly in a new field
• High social budget and desire to have multiple conversations with people in a day
• Willingness to travel occasionally within Europe for conferences and workshops
• Strong, honest judgement about people, and the confidence to give candid assessments
• Desirable: Experience advising, coaching, recruiting, or mentoring people through career decisions, ideally in or near the nonprofit or animal advocacy world
• Desirable: Familiarity with effective altruism and how it approaches prioritising between causes and interventions
• Desirable: Background in or exposure to nonprofit, mission driven, or advocacy work
• Desirable: Familiarity with career paths outside traditional animal advocacy (e.g. corporate food roles, government and policy, journalism, finance, or academia)
• Desirable: Comfort working with data to track outcomes over time and use it to refine a process

Complete the application form on the link below. Selected candidates will be invited to complete a series of work tasks, followed by a cultural and behavioural interview (video call), a technical interview (video call), and a short meeting with the CEO (video call).