Zero Stray Pawject, Inc is looking for an experienced Program Manager and Chief of Staff to join our team.
Zero Stray Pawject, Inc is an innovative organization with a public health and animal welfare angle that designs, executes, and measures stray animal prevention programs to solve the root-cause of stray dogs and cats BEFORE THE DOG OR CAT ENDS UP STRAY. Zero Stray Pawject is a small and growing NGO with a team of public health, law, veterinary, animal welfare, business management and economics experts across three continents. Zero Stray Pawject works closely with municipalities, its mayors and directors of public health, law enforcement, local veterinarians, and schoolmasters. We design and execute municipal stray prevention programs that reduce the "production" of stray pets and at the same time drive societal change that is long term orientated. We ensure to have clear KPIs in place to measure success. 
Zero Stray Academy is Greece’s first academy (and presumably the world’s first academy) that trains municipalities, police and the judicial how to reduce the number of strays systematically and sustainably. ZSP academy attracts some of the best subject matter experts across Greece and internationally, including government officials, municipal speakers, senior leaders across law enforcement, the judicial arm, leading veterinarians, industry experts and key animal welfare leaders.
Job description:
The Program Manager and Chief of Staff is a crucial team member of Zero Stray Pawject who works closely with the founders, board and funding partners across both, Zero Stray Pawject and Zero Stray Academy. The Program Manager and Chief of staff has a direct 
reporting line into the founders, based in New York. 
- The Program Manager and Chief of staff is a strategic and analytical thinker with a strong program management background who can deliver programs and projects under the most challenging conditions.
- He/ she will be the strategic and executional link between the founders and ongoing work of Zero Stray Pawject and our funding partners and answer any program specific questions to the funding partner, including epidemiological-type analysis 
and data reviews.
- He/ she is a self-starter and acts as a confidential advisor, helping the founders and board to executive strategic priorities aligned with the funding partners to deliver impact towards ending pet homelessness in Greece.
- The chief of staff has a high level of project and program management responsibility and oversees large, strategic programs, bringing together stakeholders and driving decision-making. He/ she will work with opposite opinions and will be confident to drive decision making forward in the most diplomatic way to achieve results.
- He/ she is also in charge of administrative tasks, such as managing calendars of key decision makers, managing budget, plan meetings, workshop and events. He/ she will need to be highly organized.
- He/ she must provide hands-on support and help transform ideas into reality while monitoring progress through well defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) by working hand in hand with the country director and director of the academy to deliver results back to the board, founders and funding partners.
- To this end, he/ she must help execute KPIs to measure and improve performance of programs.
- He/ she will play a crucial role in team efficiency by guiding department heads.
- He / she will be also a personal timekeeper and potentially organize schedule and travel arrangements.
- Towards the funding partner, he/ she will answer on behalf of the founders, act with integrity, trust and expertise.
- He/ she will present the founders and other board and funding partner members with detailed company operations analysis and complete special projects with skillful oversight and support.
If you are the person as described below, you will thrive in this position: 
• University degree, 15+ years of work experience in business management, university, teaching or in public affairs. Previous chief of staff experiences of advantage.
• Rigorous critical thinking is a must
• Highly organized and strong attention to detail 
• Highly analytical
• Trustworthy and reliable. Team spirit
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivation and goal orientation even under difficult conditions
• Results orientated and at the same time diplomatic to get tasks accomplished
• Ability to manage various stakeholders with sometimes very opposite opinions without losing     the big picture
• Ability to build strong relationships across the board, founders and funding partners
• Truly passionate about making a difference to stray animals 
• Highly proficient in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
• Proficiency to manage various projects and knowledge of project management
• Greek national, or fluent in written and verbal Greek. English is a must
• He/she must comply to our credo: http://www.zerostraypawject.org/credo
• Based in Athens, or remote in Greece

The role will have a fair remuneration and 4 weeks of paid holidays. The role will work with a small, but truly diverse international team based in the US, around Europe and Greece.

People who really want to see true change and improve communities. This is a full-time position, and you will be expected to work according to its requirements and needs, which might involve out-of-business hours or weekend commitments. Travel will be limited. 

The role is currently limited until October 2025, but with a high likelihood to continue beyond. Visit Zero Stray Academy.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter in English to info@zerostraypawject.org