Job Location: San Diego Campus - San Diego, CA 92110,
Position Type: Full-Time,
Salary Range: $26.60 - $29.61 Hourly,
Job Category: Humane Law Enforcement , San Diego Humane Society is hiring a Full-Time Administrative Animal Protection Officer for our Humane Law Enforcement Team!
At San Diego Humane Society, we’re united by our mission to Inspire Compassion, providing hope and advancing the welfare of animals and people. Animal Protection Officers (APO) impact the lives of more than 40,000 animals each year by patrolling designated areas to enforce state laws and local ordinances and ensure humane treatment of animals.
In this role, you will support animal protection investigations, enforcement workflows, and community response through a primarily administrative role. This position serves as an initial connection point between the community, field officers, partner agencies, and internal departments by screening concerns, gathering information, maintaining accurate records, and ensuring timely communication and follow-up. While primarily office-based, the Administrative Animal Protection Officer remains prepared to assist with field response, animal handling, and emergency operations as needed in support of SDHS’s commitment to animal welfare and public safety.
This role delivers service at the gold standard level in alignment with the SDHS Way, to meet the needs of animals and the people who love them by leading with compassion, finding creative solutions, providing personalized care and building connections. If you’re passionate about making an impact in the animal welfare movement, we’d love to talk to you.
What’s in it for you?
At SDHS, we’re proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and commit to being a place where every person – staff, volunteer, and guest – can feel a sense of belonging. We support and invest in employees through conscious delivery of benefits and a workplace environment based on our Core Values.
To successfully perform this job an individual must have genuine interest in animals and their well-being with strong interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
Candidates must pass a full background check post offer. Additionally, you must be able to pass a medical exam and drug screening.
Location & Hours: Based out of our San Diego Campus, with expected travel to all SDHS campuses and across the greater San Diego County. This position works a standard 5/8 schedule, 5 days a week for 8-hour shifts.
Pay: Starting range is between $26.60 – $29.61 per hour and is eligible for an hourly bilingual-Spanish premium.
Recruitment Incentives: Candidates with animal shelter experience or field enforcement experience may be eligible for up to a $3,000 recruiting incentive. 1 year full-time paid minimum to qualify for bonus.
Recruiting incentives for HLE positions are limited to a one-time payment per candidate and cannot be received for multiple roles (e.g., for APO and for HLEO).
The listed hiring range for this position depicts the target range of pay rates for candidates. The maximum of the hiring range is reserved for candidates with the highest qualifications and relevant experience. Compensation for internal candidates may increase beyond the listed range based on performance over time. For all candidates, the actual starting pay rate is determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to your years of related education and experience, internal pay equity, and position location.
To learn more about our benefits and perks, click here.
San Diego Humane Society, an open-admission shelter, is creating a more humane world by inspiring compassion and advancing the welfare of animals and people. Our lifesaving safety net has helped San Diego become one of the largest cities in the U.S. to achieve zero euthanasia of healthy and treatable shelter animals.
With campuses in El Cajon, Escondido, Oceanside, Ramona and San Diego, we provide animal services for 13 cities within San Diego County. We not only care for more than 40,000 animals in our communities each year, but also share the expertise we gain through our innovative programs with shelters across the country so they can save more lives in their communities.
Although we are committed to serving as a national leader in animal welfare, our top priority is meeting the needs of our San Diego community. We provide exceptional care for all animals through world-class veterinary medicine, shelter and most of all: love.
San Diego Humane Society is looking for candidates who support our mission to create a more humane world by inspiring compassion. We thrive on a Culture of Care, offering competitive pay and benefits, and our benefits are designed to help staff to lead healthy, productive and rewarding lives, both at work and at home.
