Animal Rights Advocacy/Vegan Education Officer
We are recruiting a Vegan Education Officer/Vegan Advocacy Officer to develop the advocacy aspect of our work.
Job Title: Vegan Education/Animal Rights Advocacy Officer
Organisation: Eden Farmed Animal Sanctuary
Location: Kells, Co Meath
Hours: This is a full time 5 day week post (approximately 39 hours per week)
Salary Rate: €36,700 per year
Contract Type: 1-year contract
Start date: As soon as possible
Vegan Education & Animal Rights work at Eden
Eden Farmed Animal Sanctuary is a not-for-profit limited company founded in 2008.
Our vision is for a world in which the rights of other animals are respected, primarily their right not to be the property of humans. We work towards a world in which humans are vegan, and other animals are no longer bred to be used as commodities such as food, clothing, research, education, entertainment, labour etc. We envisage a world in which free living animals thrive, and humans and other animals co-exist in a healthy environment. Our mission is to use the information and insights that the rescued animals on our vegan sanctuary provide about their sentience and needs, in such a manner that our public presence reflects the need to completely and rapidly abolish all animal use by humans everywhere through anti-speciesist, animal rights advocacy, and vegan education.
Vegan Education/Animal Rights Advocacy Officer Role
The Vegan Education/Animal Rights Advocacy Officer will work alongside the Sanctuary Director to bring the lives and personalities of the animals we rescue to the public, highlighting their sentience, the effects of their histories of exploitation on their right to health and life, and our moral obligation to be vegan.
Duties include:
duties include intensive collaboration with the animals at Eden to understand their needs, individualities, and lives to deeply inform the advocacy and education work
- Intensive collaboration with the animals at Eden to understand their personalities and needs to inform the advocacy and education work
- Vegan education with the public
- Researching and writing submissions to key public consultations
- Representing Eden at relevant educational events
- Researching for written online articles on animal rights, veganism, intersectionality, and multi-species justice
- Communicating with the public
Skills, Experience & Attributes
Essential:
- A passion for anti-speciesist animal rights and a shared vision for the complete abolition of human use of other animals
- Demonstrable knowledge of, and interest in, farmed animals living on vegan sanctuaries
- An ability to recognise the individual personhood of other animals and to communicate their uniqueness
- An ability to convey the philosophy of antispeciesism and animal rights in a simple, coherent, uncompromising and eloquent manner
- An ability to convey the distinction between animal welfare and animal rights, a plant-based diet and the philosophy of veganism
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Experience working as part of a busy team
- An appreciation of intersectionality and multispecies justice
- Demonstrable organisational, time management and workload prioritisation skills
- An ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbally
- A flexible and positive attitude to the role
- Full driver’s licence and own transport
Desirable:
- An ability to understand and reference research in communications
- A third level qualification
- Previous publications (journals, relevant research papers or articles, book chapters etc)
- Knowledge of how animal agriculture contributes to the climate crisis and loss of biodiversity, as well as an appreciation of how the climate crisis impacts other animals
- Experience in animal rights campaigning and vegan education
- Experience public consultation submission writing
- Experience in event organisation
Conditions of Employment
The successful candidate is required to be resident in Ireland and eligible to work in Ireland.
Our office is located on our sanctuary in Kells, Co Meath
Regular meeting attendance required
The role requires occasional travel and occasional weekend or evening work.
Work related expenses are reimbursed by the sanctuary.
Pension auto-enrolment (1.5% employer contribution)
Statutory annual leave and public holidays
Cycle to Work scheme
How to apply
- Please email your CV and a Cover Letter to [email protected]
- Please put “Vegan Education/Animal Rights Advocacy Officer” in the email subject line.
- In your cover letter please outline your motivation for this position and include why you believe your skills and experience will enable you to deliver on the responsibilities and duties of this role
- Applications for this position must be received by 18:00 on 9th July 2026.
- Late submissions will not be considered