Skills and Experience: A minimum of least 3 years of director level, or higher, animal shelter leadership and management experience related to the essential responsibilities, including overseeing large-scale strategy, operations, budgeting and staffing, preferably including oversight of high intake and multiple locations and/or facilities within a municipal shelter system. The SME is responsible, in support of the LAAS general manager and onsite leadership team, for advising the general management of a partner organization's training and implementation of the 3-year LAAS, Best Friends and ASPCA plan, creating systemic change, and achieving safety, efficiency and lifesaving impact for LAAS shelter workers and animals.