Do you love dogs and adventures? Do you value community and democracy in your workplace?

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Then Adventure Pups Cooperative might be right for you!

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We strive to create a workplace culture that is anti-oppressive, anti-racist, inclusive, safe, and democratic. We work only with positive reinforcement and force free training for the pups. We all share in our responsibilities. While some of us are worker-owners and some employees, we all have a say in how the business is run and practice democracy in our everyday work.

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We are currently looking for someone who has volunteer or professional experience working with dogs (i.e. volunteering in a shelter, working at a daycare, etc.). You should be comfortable working with 3-4 dogs at a time.

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Adventure Pups is a cooperative, so that means joining our team is a little different than applying to a more traditional job! Here at Adventure Pups Cooperative, you start off as an employee and then you may have the opportunity to become a worker-owner after six months of working with us! Becoming a part-owner of Adventure Pups Cooperative gives you access to voting power and profit sharing with the company. We know this isn’t like other companies, so please feel free to ask us any questions you might have. We will also explain everything when we finally meet in-person, as we aim to be as transparent as possible. Plus, we love talking about our cooperative structure!

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Some of our other benefits include:

• Health & dental insurance

• $40k starting yearly salary

• Generous Paid Time Off

• Paid gas mileage

• Employees and worker-owners are not “at will”, which means they can not be fired without cause

• Training in basic positive-reinforcement, dog social interaction, and more

• Opt-in training on financial literacy/business administration/digital marketing

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We'd love to hear from you if you are interested in becoming an Adventure Guide! Please email us at info(at)adventurepupscooperative.com with a cover letter and your resume, and answer the following questions:

• Why are you excited to work with dogs?

• Do you have experience working with dogs?

• What excites you about being part of a cooperative?

• Why do you want to become a worker-owner?

• How do you feel about working in a team? What do you think are the pros and cons of working in a team?

• Do you have a car? If so, what experience do you have driving in the city?

• Tell us about your values and how you think they would fit in with a cooperative's values. If you want to learn more about what a cooperative is and what they stand for, go check out ica.coop!​

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Our ideal prospective adventure guide has a car (and experience driving in Somerville), a smartphone, experience working with dogs while using R+/force free training methods, is reliable and communicative, comfortable driving for several hours during the workday, is willing to be flexible for any last minute schedule changes, is energized by the idea of working outside during all seasons/weather, and feel they can eventually handle up to 4 dogs on leash at a time. We can't wait to meet you! Woof!