Work with us

We need someone like you to join the fight!

Join an inclusive, energetic team whose love for wildlife and farmed animals helps us move the world to protect them.

Our focus on 'Values & Belonging' gives everyone a seat at the table, recognises different perspectives to approach our work, and brings our team together to genuinely have fun.

We pride ourselves on our highly competitive global pay policy that ensures you’re compensated for fighting the good fight for animals.

Here, we believe having the flexibility to care for yourself and your (human or fur) family, means greater impact towards our vision of a world where animals live free from cruelty and suffering.

Flexible working

• Hybrid working (three days office, two days home for full time) pro-rata for part time
• 7-hour workday (30 min lunch) - 35-hour week (fulltime)
• Option for flexible hours (start early, finish early, start late finish late, school drop off pick up navigation) or compressed work week i.e 9-day fortnight if appropriate an approved by your leader
• Public holiday swap options
• Salary Packaging options through SimplyGreen
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Employees can work 30 days overseas in a 12 month period.

Supporting wellbeing

• Sydney based EAP (in person or virtual counselling sessions)
• Birthday leave (on your birthday or make your birthday weekend a long weekend)
• Bereavement/Compassionate Leave (10 days)
• Pregnancy Loss Leave (10 days)
• Fertility Treatment Leave (five days per cycle, up to max three cycles)
• Companion animal bereavement Leave (two days)
• ‘Pawternity’ leave🐾 (time to settle a new companion animal) (two days)
• Two gifted days off in July to enhance wellbeing (global)
• Gifted days off between Christmas and New Year’s (Global)
• Wellbeing activities: Crafternoons and monthly full team physical wellbeing outings e.g. tennis, nature walks.
• Fortnightly morning teas
• One additional day of annual leave per year of service up to a maximum of five years
• Formal TOIL programme (submit TOIL for any additional hours worked greater than one hour in one working day)

Diversity and inclusion

• Government parental leave topped up to full pay for duration of government pay plus continued superannuation payments
• Disability Leave (10 days)
• Menstrual and Menopause Leave (12 days)
• Gender Affirming Medical Leave (20 days)
• Gender neutral bathrooms

Growing people

• Training allowance
• Four days study leave (for work approved courses)
• Three days per year volunteer leave

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Protecting your privacy

At World Animal Protection we are committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what we will use it for. This privacy policy sets out how and why World Animal Protection collects and uses your personal data for recruitment purposes, and how we keep it private and secure.

Read our recruitment privacy notice