Public Affairs Specialist

About the St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center

For over 80 years, St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center has been dedicated to helping animals in need and serving communities across New Jersey. With a people-focused, community-based approach, St. Hubert’s treats every animal as an individual and emphasizes specialized care for both animals and their families. Built on a foundation of rescue and adoption, St. Hubert’s operates extensive community programs, including access to veterinary care, pet food support, training services, and the nation’s leading pet transport initiative, Way Station.

As part of the Humane Rescue Alliance, headquartered in Washington, D.C., St. Hubert’s is connected to the largest and most comprehensive animal services provider network in the region, impacting the lives of tens of thousands of animals each year.

Like being in the know? Like talking to people, telling good stories, and making things happen online and out in the community?

As a Public Affairs Specialist erts and the Humane Rescue Alliance, you’ll help shape how we show up in the world—from social media and digital storytelling to news coverage, community events, corporate partnerships, and conversations with local leaders.

A big part of your day-to-day work will be telling our stories on social media. You’ll help develop and create engaging content, manage day-to-day activity across our social channels, respond to, and interact with our online community, and look for opportunities to turn what’s happening across the organization into stories people want to see, share, and talk about. You’ll work closely with the Marketing team to keep our content fresh, timely, on-brand, and connected to what’s happening in our shelter and programs.

You’ll also help us build relationships and stay connected beyond our social channels. You might talk with a reporter about an animal in our care, coordinate a meeting with an elected official, work with a corporate partner on an activation, attend a community event, or help prepare a spokesperson for an interview. You’ll be someone who can move comfortably between writing a social post, answering a media request, planning an event, and talking with people in the community.

Reporting to the Director of Public Affairs, you’ll help make sure our voice is present, engaging, and consistent wherever people encounter us. We’re looking for someone who is curious, creative, organized, comfortable meeting new people, and able to spot a good story when they see one. If you enjoy variety, love social media, and want your work to connect people with animals and a mission you care about, this could be the role for you.

• Serve as a point of contact for routine media inquiries.
• Draft press releases, media advisories, statements, and background materials.
• Coordinate interviews and prepare briefing materials for organizational spokespeople.
• Monitor media coverage and maintain tracking reports.
• During Director absence, manage day-to-day media coordination with established escalation protocols for strategic or sensitive matters.

• Coordinate meetings and logistics with elected officials, community leaders, and key stakeholders.
• Monitor local legislative and civic developments and flag relevant updates to leadership.
• Assist in preparation of talking points, briefing materials, and stakeholder communications.
• Support public affairs initiatives designed to advance HRA’s policy and community engagement priorities.

• Contribute to and execute integrated social media strategies, managing content creation and storytelling for HRA’s social media channels in alignment with…