Vice President, Cruelty Recovery Center

Summary:

Summary: The Vice President of the Cruelty Recovery Center (VP) leads the sheltering component of the ASPCA’s national response to animal cruelty and natural disasters. Based at the Cruelty Recovery Center (CRC) in Columbus, this role oversees a highly skilled team providing lifesaving care for animals rescued from large-scale cruelty cases and emergency situations. Working closely with leaders across disciplines, the CRC team delivers integrated, quality care—from intake through outcomes—both at the CRC facility and in temporary shelters established in the field.

For more than 150 years, the ASPCA has been on the front lines to save, transform and protect the lives of millions of animals. The CRC team takes the ASPCA's commitment to the very heart of where help is most urgently needed. We are looking for a VP to lead our team, improving the lives of vulnerable animals who need us most.

The CRC provides intake, care, and outcomes for animals impacted by cruelty and natural disasters, serving as a vital part of the ASPCA’s national efforts to help communities respond effectively to animal cruelty—particularly in cases involving large populations of animals. At the CRC, sheltering, veterinary, and animal behavior professionals work side by side to deliver compassionate, high-quality care. The CRC team is comprised of staff, responders, and a growing number of volunteers and foster families.

For the planning of new cases, CRC leadership joins a multi-disciplinary group of ASPCA departments who collaborate to ensure coordinated operations and excellent care, supporting animals at the CRC facility in Columbus and in temporary shelters established in the field.

The Vice President of the CRC oversees the ASPCA’s Columbus-based shelter, ensuring consistent, efficient, and forward-thinking operations for animals in the CRC’s care. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Shelter and Rehabilitation Operations (SVP SRO), the VP leads teams in delivering fully integrated care, while ensuring medical, behavioral, and operational teams work seamlessly together. Under this leadership, pathway planning is a shared responsibility across all functions, balancing excellent care with the urgency required to be ready for the next critical request for assistance.

The role also plays an important part in strengthening local engagement, building relationships within the Columbus community to grow adoptions, foster participation, and on-site volunteer support.

The Vice President is a strategic, people-centered leader who drives excellent operations, models collaboration within a complex, matrixed organization, and helps advance the field of animal sheltering. This role combines big-picture planning with boots-on-the-ground leadership—guiding teams through fast-moving work while supporting staff resilience. In doing so, the VP helps ensure the CRC continue to strive to be a model for emergency sheltering.

For a leader inspired by purpose, innovation, and teamwork, this is a rare opportunity to shape national animal welfare efforts within a mission-driven organization.

As a member of the Shelter and Rehabilitation Operations Leadership Team (SRO LT), you will serve as a key leader, working collaboratively to advance the ASPCA’s shelter operations in ways that benefit animals, people, and the sheltering field. You will be an influential leader fostering alignment, engagement, and commitment across programs. The SRO LT models professionalism, collaboration, and open communication, creating and maintaining programs that are a great place for people to work and for animals to receive care.

• VP, the Cruelty Recovery Center reports directly to the SVP, Shelter and Rehabilitation Operations and has 4 direct reports.

• This is an on-site position based at the ASPCA’s Cruelty Recovery Center in Columbus, OH.
• The regular schedule for this position is Monday through Friday and requires flexibility, as some early mornings, evenings and weekends are required based on operational needs in support of a 7-day per week operation. Work schedules are subject to change at the discretion of…