Five Years of Animal Advocacy Careers: Our Journey to Impact, Lessons Learned, and What’s Next

By Animal Advocacy Careers, Lauren Mee @ 2024-09-19T15:39 (+1)

This is a linkpost to https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bC4MmaRQ6ybXKvqav/five-years-of-animal-advocacy-careers-our-journey-to-impact

This post is mostly about our key learnings, the impact made and future plans!

• For five years, Animal Advocacy Careers (AAC) has tried to direct passionate professionals towards high-impact opportunities that have the potential to help animals the most. 
• We've filled 105 roles in leading animal advocacy organisations, supported over 150 organisations with recruitment, and launched 3 core programs our online course, job board, and career advising service. At the same time, we built a community of 27,500+ supporters across social media, Slack, and email. Our efforts also led to 12 🔶10% Pledges and 11 🔷Trial Pledges at Giving What We Can. We cautiously estimate adding $2.5 million worth of counterfactual impact from these donations and placements at a spend of $950,000 
• We conducted four talent surveys, which, along with our own independent research, continue to form the foundation of our career advising and strategy.
• Addressing the talent bottlenecks in the effective animal advocacy movement has proven to be far more complex than we first expected. Beyond the initial challenges, we’ve encountered a range of issues that directly impact our theory of change and our ability to drive meaningful impact—such as the scarcity of job postings and difficulties in the hiring process. In response, we’ve broadened our focus beyond just non-profit roles to better address these challenges and open up more opportunities for talented individuals to contribute to the movement.
• Explore more about how AAC is transforming animal advocacy careers and find out more about our exciting plans for the future.
• READ MORE HERE: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bC4MmaRQ6ybXKvqav/five-years-of-animal-advocacy-careers-our-journey-to-impact 
  
  P.S. Crossposted from EA Forum!