About this role

• Shelter animal management
  • Meeting daily medical needs, enrichment, nutrition, and exercise
• Shelter facility management
  • Daily cleaning, maintenance, shopping, and DIY/gardening
  • Oversee the rest of the shelter staff
• Daily administration
  • Precise record-keeping, daily financials, and HR management
  • Maintaining records for medications, injuries, illnesses, and veterinary trips
• Team management
  • Recruitment for staff and volunteers as required
  • Management of shelter caretakers
• Use of skills
  • Using your skills outside of shelter management (like photography,  copywriting, media, DIY, or graphic design) to help develop the organization.
• Veterinary visits to the international clinic in Danang as needed

Additional Responsibilities:

• Organisation Development
  • Supporting the directors in the development of the organization to include running outreach programs, assisting with mass sterilization projects, and promoting animal rights
• Social media, marketing, and fundraising
  • To assist the DOO in gaining relevant content for our online channels, posting on social media platforms, and generating funds.

About you

VAAR is seeking a dedicated, highly-organized, experienced, and compassionate Shelter Manager and Vet Tech/Nurse to oversee the daily operations of our sanctuary in Hoi An, and help the organization expand into projects that will prevent animal suffering in central Vietnam.

The Manager will be working alongside the sanctuary’s Founder and Director to understand the intricate challenges and systemic solutions to preventing animal suffering.

Taking care of animals is much more than feeding them. A clean shelter is essential to ensuring the health of the animals, and as the Founder ran their own nonprofit veterinary clinic for several years, they will train you on how to maintain clinic standards.

When we have enough funding, we will re-start our mobile vet clinic for medical animal emergencies with local poverty-stricken families, as well as vaccination and sterilization community projects.

Vietnam’s borders are now open and there are currently no COVID restrictions.

Our location

Hoi An is a historic port city in central Vietnam with excellent museums and a well-preserved UNESCO World Heritage Site old town. The shelter itself is between Old Town and An Bang Beach. The beach is one of the most untouched areas considering Da Nang’s beachfront has been taken over by large corporate hotels and office buildings, and we often like to sneak down to the beach in the evenings to enjoy the sunset and some beachfront restaurants. As this is a touristy town, there are many cultural exchange experiences and tours for learning about the unique culture and history of this region.

We work in animal rights in a country with very little legal or social support for animals and the capacity of the veterinary industry is extremely low, so this will be a learning experience for anyone not familiar with low-resource animal rescue.

Our offer

Job Requirements and Benefits:

• 5 working days per week / 2 days off
• 6 to 8 working hours per day
• Offsite accommodation stipend up to 3 million VND (the cost of housing in Hoi An is generally less than this)
• 21 days annual paid holiday
• $500 USD per month (11.6 million VND) with the possibility of a pay increase after a training period

It's time to apply

Please email us with your CV and cover letter. We are eager to fill this role as soon as possible!