Position Objectives:
To assist PETA India’s emergency response team in handling urgent animal emergencies, rescues, and cruelty cases involving animals.
Term of Employment:
Full time
Work Schedule:
Work as per a roster-based schedule, which will include morning, evening, night, and weekend shifts, with two rotational weekly offs.
Reports to:
Director-Emergency Response team
Primary Responsibilities and Duties:
• Respond to emergency and general cruelty-case calls and e-mails in a prompt and appropriate manner.
• Respond to issues related to emergency and general cruelty-case work, such as housing societies that wrongly impose restrictions on animal feeders and caretakers, with form letters and other approved means
• Arrange timely, hands-on help for animals in need in Mumbai and Delhi with the assistance of the senior paravet and office assistants, in accordance with PETA’s standard operating procedures and in consultation with the relevant supervisor.
• Coordinate effectively with approved animal-protection organisations, volunteers, activists, government bodies,



and designated officials to facilitate emergency rescues in remote areas across the country..
• File police complaints and First Information Reports, visit relevant agencies and case sites when needed, and perform similar tasks as necessary and assigned.
• Inform members of the public about ways they can help animals with appropriate responses to cases
• Maintain and update a database of contacts and services available to PETA India’s emergency and cruelty-case response team as requested by the supervisor
• In accordance with professional standards, ensure that thorough records are maintained for calls and e-mails received about emergencies and cruelty cases, including how they were handled and concluded
• Participate in professional development training on animal handling, restraining, first aid, and other lessons relevant to appropriate emergency and cruelty-case response
• Provide other services related

📌 Emergency Response Assistant (India)
🏢 PETA India
📍 India