Manager, Harmony Equine Center - Animal Welfare Organization

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Manager, Harmony Equine Center | Humane Colorado | Franktown, CO

Humane Colorado is seeking an experienced and mission driven leader to manage the Harmony Equine Center and oversee daily equine shelter operations. This role ensures the highest standards of humane care while leading staff, volunteers, facilities, and community partnerships.

The Manager provides hands on operational leadership, drives process improvement, supports fiscal responsibility, and fosters a strong, people centered team culture. This position is ideal for a confident equine professional with supervisory experience who thrives in dynamic environments and is passionate about advancing horse welfare.

If you are ready to lead with integrity, compassion, and operational excellence, we invite you to apply.

Provide leadership and day-to-day management and oversight of the operations at the Harmony Equine Center, in alignment with overall organizational shelter operations.

• Direct, monitor, and ensure humane treatment and handling of horses and other animals, including monitoring and ensuring sanitation standards are adhered to and treatments are consistent with protocols.
• Monitor the maintenance, cleanliness, sanitation, and safety of equipment, facilities, and grounds.
• Ensure that the highest level of people care is delivered to staff, patrons, volunteers, partners, donors, and vendors.
• Monitor and evaluate processes and procedures to ensure efficient use of resources and effective systems for equine sheltering.
• Stay up to date with best practices and new innovations in equine welfare, to ensure the League is providing optimal care and optimizing outcomes. Ensure SOPs are updated, practiced, and communicated to staff and volunteers.
• Assist with performing euthanasia.
• Serve as a liaison and promote the organization’s goals to the local community, law enforcement agencies, courts and other animal welfare related organizations, including local animal control agencies.
• Represent the Harmony Equine Center at various community functions/special events and develop and maintain relationships with local businesses and community organizations.
• Manage external partnerships and vendors to provide services as needed.
• Ensure the proper utilization of and integration of department volunteers.
• Assist with the development and monitoring of the budget.
• Manages and develops an effective staff: providing effective communication, leadership, guidance and resources. Determines staff qualifications and competency: recruits, interviews, selects, hires, trains, orients, mentors, evaluates, coaches, counsels, disciplines, and rewards. Establishes and monitors staff safety and regulatory compliance.
• Develop and fulfill realistic and ambitious departmental objectives and plans.
• Oversee daily financial transactions.
• Participate in inter-departmental meetings and discussions to support and develop organizational initiatives.

People are the key to fulfilling our mission. Making internal and external patrons and their needs a primary focus is expected in all situations. This position interacts with and collaborates with employees at all levels of the organization. Communication occurs through face to face, telephone, and electronic interactions and may also include contact with the general public and League business partners.

Communication and contact must be clear, understandable, cooperative, professional and respectful in all circumstances. Employees are expected to actively support a positive team environment, directly address conflict, and appropriately express concerns.

Competencies are work behaviors and expectations necessary for successful job performance. They encompass knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and actions. Additional definitions for competencies may be obtained from Human Resources.

• Integrity and Ethics
• Adapting to Change and Ambiguity
• Customer and Community Focus
• Emotional Intelligence
• Excellence

• Project and Process Management
• Delivering Results
• Developing Direct Reports
• Building and Leading Effective Teams