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Fish Welfare Initiative is hiring two key leadership roles for our India work. You can read the full job descriptions and application processes:

  • For Director of Operations here.
  • For Director of Programs here.

Key Details for Both Roles

  • Application Deadline: April 30, 2025
  • Location: On average, you will spend 1-4 weeks per quarter in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. Otherwise remote in India.
  • Position Type: Full-time
  • Salary: INR 20-30 lakhs annually (set based on need and experience).
  • Start Date: ASAP, with some flexibility.
  • We are only accepting candidates who have at least three years of relevant prior experience and are Indian nationals or long-term residents.

About Us

Fish Welfare Initiative is an animal welfare organization that focuses on one of the most numerous and neglected groups of farmed animals: fishes.

We work to improve fish welfare by developing and implementing scalable, cost-effective, and evidence-based interventions. Our main program, the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture (ARA), collaborates with fish farmers in Andhra Pradesh to improve water quality and reduce stocking densities. Alongside this, our Research & Development (R&D) department explores new interventions to identify the most effective ways to help fishes.

Right now, we are in an intervention-development phase—running one core program while conducting research to determine the best strategies for large-scale impact. We aim to transition to a program scaling stage by late 2026.

You can learn more about our work on our blog and website.

Director of Operations

The Director of Operations will oversee our operations in India while helping shape our programmatic strategy and partnerships. 

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Oversee FWI’s operations and legal compliance in India
  2. Serve as a leader in the organization
  3. Lead key partnerships

Ideal Candidate:

We're looking for a leader with:

  • Proven experience in operations management and leadership
  • A systems optimization mindset
  • Openness to change and a lean start-up approach
  • Familiarity with opportunities and challenges of nonprofit work in the Indian context and having the relevant local network
  • Strong time and resource management skills
  • Adept relationship-building skills

How to Apply: Once you have 1.5 continuous hours, please complete the mini test task. You will be informed by May 2 whether you are proceeding on to the next rounds.

Director of Programs

The Director of Programs will lead our growing Programs Department and run scalable, cost-effective, and evidence-based programs to improve fish welfare. 

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Oversight for effectively implementing our programs in India
  2. Lead the Programs Department 
  3. Organization-level leadership

Ideal Candidate:

We're looking for a leader with:

  • Proven leadership experience in running a program or organization, managing a team, and developing strategies—specifically, we are looking for someone with experience in running cost-effective programs
  • Ability to make strategic decisions
  • Openness to change and a lean start-up approach
  • Familiarity with opportunities and challenges of nonprofit work in the Indian context and having the relevant local network
  • Strong time and resource management skills
  • Adept relationship-building skills

How to Apply:

Please fill out this form. We will review all applications latest by April 30 and inform you shortly after.

Flexibility on Job Designation

Depending on the applicant’s skills and experience, we may make them an offer at either a manager or lead level, as opposed to a director level, instead. This change would be reflected both in the final payscale, as well as in the level and array of responsibilities the new hire would be tasked with.

If we believe it would make sense to hire you under a different designation, we will talk with you about this during the hiring process.

 

Apply now or share this opportunity with someone who might be the perfect fit!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Althy at alethea@fishwelfareinitiative.org. 

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