Tracy Poston Email & Phone Number

United States

Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States

• Responsibilities
• Collaborate with Board of Directors to identify, create and implement strategic plans including establishing goals, identifying and obtaining grants, and collaboration with national, state, and local partnerships and.
• Identify and implement best practices and standards to achieve organizational goals including financial objectives and active participation in fundraising planning and execution.
• Lead shelter operations and programs including maintaining standards of animal care, recruiting, hiring, and coaching team members (staff and volunteers), facilities management, day-to-day operations, social media.
• Decreased euthanasians from ~35% to establish shelter as no-kill within 3 years.
• Collaborated with other local and out-of-state shelters to intake their at-risk pets.

Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States

• Responsibilities
• Assumed responsibility and leadership of the adoption team.
• Managed billing and purchasing motions.
• Managed intake of dogs, cats, and other animals as applicable, determining best course of action to maximize likelihood of placement. Key Achievements
• Implemented conversational adoptions to increase adoption rates.
• Identified opportunity to improve workflow efficiencies, sought approval and implemented the shelter's first software-based shelter management system.

Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States

• Responsibilities
• Own responsibility for direct animal care of cats.
• Listen potential adopters to help match with varying pet personalities.Key Achievements
• Established repour with several adopters, often successfully matching multiple pets immediately or over time.