Term of Employment: Full-Time, Exempt
Reports To: Head of Marketing
Union: Bargaining Unit Position, Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU) 

Location: Remote (U.S Based)

Who We Are: 

The Animal Legal Defense Fund’s mission is to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system. The Animal Legal Defense Fund accomplishes this mission by filing high-impact lawsuits to protect animals from harm, providing free legal assistance and training to prosecutors to assure that animal abusers are held accountable for their crimes, supporting tough animal protection legislation and fighting legislation harmful to animals, gathering data about and advocating for effective regulation of animal exploitative industries and providing resources and opportunities to law students and professionals to advance the emerging field of animal law. 

Role Description: 

The Direct Marketing Specialist executes ALDF’s multi-channel campaigns across digital and direct mail, supporting fundraising, advocacy, and other supporter engagement initiatives. Reporting to the Head of Marketing, this role implements the operational systems that move campaigns from planning through launch — coordinating timelines across internal teams and external partners, producing and deploying in-house email campaigns, and ensuring all communications reach the right audiences effectively and on time. This role plays a critical role in driving revenue growth, deepening supporter engagement, and mobilizing advocates, ensuring ALDF’s campaigns are executed with precision and impact. 

How You Will Make a Difference: 

Campaign Coordination

• Own the campaign calendar and production timelines across digital, SMS, and direct mail channels. 
• Develop and maintain cross-functional timelines with internal teams, agency partners, and external vendors (mail shops, printers, platform providers). 
• Partner with Head of Marketing to shape campaign engagement journeys, integrating educational, advocacy, fundraising, and stewardship opportunities, as appropriate, through the arc of a campaign.  
• Ensure creative, data, and production deliverables stay on track from concept through launch. 
• Identify and proactively escalate risks to campaign timelines or delivery. 
• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for agency partners, consolidating feedback and ensuring deliverables align with campaign goals, timelines, and budgets. 

Email Production

• Pull, segment, and manage audience lists for email campaigns, including fundraising appeals, petitions, action alerts, newsletters, and event communications. 
• Build, test, and quality-assure emails within the email platform, including rendering, link validation, and seed list checks. 
• Schedule and deploy campaigns to targeted audience segments, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery. 
• Support ongoing list growth, segmentation, and targeting strategies to improve engagement and performance. 

Performance Tracking

• Produce regular performance reports across digital and mail channels, tracking revenue, engagement, and spend against goals. 
• Analyze campaign results to identify trends, insights, and opportunities for optimization. 
• Monitor A/B and multivariate testing results and translate findings into actionable recommendations. 
• Partner with team to refine targeting, messaging, and channel strategy based on performance. 

Please note, this job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position, which are subject to change in order to best advance ALDF’s strategic objectives and mission.

We Are Looking for Candidates With: 

• A bachelor's degree in communications or a related field is preferred. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 5 additional years of fundraising experience may be considered equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in direct response fundraising, with meaningful exposure to both digital and direct mail channels 
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex production timelines across multiple concurrent campaigns, with experience coordinating internal teams and external agency partners 
• Hands-on experience building, testing, and deploying campaigns in an email marketing platforms (Engaging Networks preferred) 
• Experience working with donor or supporter CRM systems (Salesforce preferred) 
• Strong understanding of segmentation, audience targeting, and lifecycle marketing across both donors and non-donor supporters 
• Comfort working with performance data and translating results into actionable insights 
• Demonstrated interest and experience with animal welfare issues and committed to the mission of the Animal Legal Defense Fund 
• The ability to travel periodically for staff meetings and retreats (estimated 1-3 trips annually)

We Offer Competitive Compensation with Excellent Benefits, Including: 

• Starting annual salary of $86,499 for most geographic locations.
• For candidates located within 25 miles of Washington D.C., Cotati, CA, and Los Angeles, starting pay is $91,052 
• For candidates located within 25 miles of New York City and San Francisco, starting pay is $95,604 

To ensure salary equity, we do not negotiate salary outside of the published starting rate. Rate is determined by role, using set geographical factors.

• Comprehensive health care, dental, life and vision benefits (100% employer paid); Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Dependent Care Account (DCA) are also available
• 192 hours of PTO
• 19 paid holidays 
• 1-month paid sabbatical after 5 years of continuous employment
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• 401k plan with a maximum 5% employer contribution match after one year of employment
• Alternative work schedules (at manager’s discretion)
• One-time remote work allowance of $750
• Annual professional development reimbursement of up to $1,000?

Maintaining a healthy work/life balance is a core value for the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

Additional Information: 

This role is included in a collective bargaining unit that is represented by the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU). Certain terms and conditions of your employment, including wages and benefits, have been negotiated with the Union and are included in a collective bargaining agreement between ALDF and the Union. 

This is a U.S. based position. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. 

The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing an employment environment which is welcoming of persons from diverse backgrounds and free from unlawful discrimination and harassment, and in which all legal rights of our employees are recognized and protected. ALDF conducts all internal and external operations, programs, and employment-related decision making (including hiring decisions) without regard to actual or perceived race, ancestry, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, immigration status, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, political affiliation, disability or medical condition (including physical, intellectual, or psychiatric), sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, age, or other protected category, and in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local anti-discrimination and anti-harassment laws.
 

Consistent with the organization’s mission, our offices and events are free of animal products and byproducts.

The application deadline for this position is August 20, 2026.  Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage applicants to apply early as we may make a decision before the deadline closes.