Development Director Application - Animal Charity Evaluators

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Qualifications

These questions aim to assess your fit with the essential qualifications for the development director role at ACE. They also illustrate what this role entails.

Are you regularly available between 8am and 10am Pacific Time?(Required)

Yes

Have you set measurable goals for sales, marketing, or fundraising in a current or previous position?(Required)

Yes

How comfortable are you communicating in English, both verbally and in-person, with people you’ve never met?(Required)

On a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being very uncomfortable and 5 being very comfortable

1 - Very uncomfortable

2 - Somewhat uncomfortable

3 - Neither uncomfortable/comfortable

4 - Somewhat comfortable

5 - Very comfortable

Have you drafted a budget for a project or organization in a previous role?(Required)

Yes

Animal Charity Evaluators has a unique theory of change and guiding principles. Share one example of how your personal or professional values have aligned with ACE’s approach to increasing animals’ wellbeing.(Required)

Learning Opportunities

At ACE, we expect that even if we do our best, we will make mistakes or suboptimal choices—sometimes even significant ones. We view these situations as learning opportunities.

Without naming where you worked, describe two specific mistakes you’ve made in fundraising campaigns. What were the mistakes, what were the measurable results, and what did you learn from them?(Required)

Without naming where you worked, describe two specific mistakes you’ve made in your major gifts strategy and execution. What were the mistakes, what were the measurable results, and what did you change because of them?(Required)

Experience

Working in a fully remote environment requires specific strategies for effectiveness. Tell us about a time when you successfully led a complex project remotely, detailing how you ensured productivity, collaboration, and successful outcomes.(Required)

How do you view the current philanthropic landscape, particularly in the U.S. animal protection space? Highlight one trend, one challenge, and one opportunity that you believe is most relevant for Animal Charity Evaluators.(Required)

Share a specific example of a time when you provided constructive feedback to a colleague or team member to address a performance gap. How did you approach the conversation, and what was the outcome?(Required)

Demographic questions

Diversity, equity and inclusion are a crucial and permanent part of our strategy to help animals. To help us increase and maintain a diversity of perspectives of our staff at all levels in our organization, we invite you to fill out this voluntary survey so we can further our DEI efforts. Filling out this survey is optional and declining to answer these questions will not affect your application. If you do choose to answer, your responses will be fully anonymized: they will not be visible to the hiring committee, and will not be associated with your application, your name, or your email address. This data will only be used in aggregate to help us determine whether our hiring process was accessible to a sufficiently diverse pool of candidates, which we believe gives us the best chance of finding the most qualified candidate for the role.

How do you racially identify? (optional to share)

What is your gender?

Do you identify as the same gender you were assigned at birth?

Yes

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What is your romantic and/or sexual orientation? (optional to share)

For instance, gay, bi, lesbian, asexual, heterosexual, queer

What is your disability status?

This can include intellectual, psychiatric, physical and sensory disabilities

Person with a disability

Person without a disability

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What is your age?

Under 18

18-24 years old

25-34 years old

35-44 years old

45-54 years old

55-64 years old

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Was English your first language?

Yes

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What is your residency status?

I live in the country I was born in and am a documented citizen there

I have moved to the country I now live in and am a documented resident there

I have moved to the country I now live in and am a naturalized citizen there

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Do you live in the USA?

Yes

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Are you an underage child’s guardian or parent?

Yes

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Suggestions, feedback, and questions

If you have answers to some of the following questions, please share.

How can we improve this survey? What phrasing do you think currently works well? What other categories, especially those underrepresented in research and animal advocacy, should we ask about? Do you have suggested reading you'd like to share? How do you think the data that comes out of this survey can increase animal welfare?

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