Home from Home Volunteer Assistant
Our Home From Home (HFH) Volunteers make a huge contribution to the success of our Home From Home (Fostering) scheme. Many of our canine residents prefer the stable, comfortable and quiet environment of a foster home to kennels. HFH Volunteer Assistants perform a wide range of administrative tasks help our HFH Coordinators find these pups their paw-fect foster home.
What will you be doing?
- administrative tasks that may include email, telephone, scanning, typing, filing and data entry
- writing thank you cards and letters for fosterers whose dogs have been adopted
- transporting our dogs between their foster homes and rehoming centres
- bringing food, medication, or other equipment to foster homes
- relaying information related to the dogs and fosterers back to the HFH Coordinator
- creating foster dog profiles to display in the rehoming centre.
We’re looking for someone with:
- a full UK driving license
- excellent inter-personal skills
- a diplomatic approach to problem-solving
- ability to work comfortably both in a close-knit team and alone
- conscientious with a can-do attitude
- ability to follow instructions.
- an interest in dogs and dog welfare.
For this role volunteers must be at least 18 years old.
What this role will offer you:
We will provide you with a main contact who will manage your tasks, answer any questions you might have and help you with the volunteer rota. You’ll also received ongoing role-specific training, guidance and support as well as an opportunity to gain and develop new skills. We will provide a Dogs trust volunteer uniform, and will recognise the work you are kindly undertaking by enrolling you in our Volunteer Merits Scheme.
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