Area Organiser
When We Need You
From 11/01/2012 onwards
About Opportunity
Are you passionate about animal welfare and making a real difference to local pets and owners? If so this role could be for you.
Being a volunteer Area Organiser involves organising the Pet Fostering Service and The Blue Cross Foster Scheme in your area, coordinating the intake of animals and promoting the service PFSS offers and the need for new homes for pets in The Blue Cross Foster Scheme.
You will build relationships with local volunteers and professionals, e.g. social workers. Much of this role involves telephone calls from home but will also involve some travelling in the local area.
Availability
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Flexible
About Pet Fostering Service Scotland
Pet Fostering Service Scotland (PFSS) provides short-term care for pets in volunteer foster homes. We aim to support pet owners who suffer from poor health, temporary homelessness or who are fleeing a domestic abuse home.
Our key aims are to reduce the stress to both pet and owner and to reunite them as soon as possible.
If pets are unable to be reunited with their owner PFSS collaborates with The Blue Cross to find those animals loving new homes.
Skills & Experience
Experience of pet keeping
Friendly and professional phone manner
Administrative experience OR business-like approach to record-keeping, correspondence, finances
Good communication skills
Good problem solving skills
Restrictions
We would ask that the successful candidate be able to take calls through the day and not be in fulltime employment.
Candidates should have a landline and answer-service.
Candidates should have a driving license and access to a car.
Requirements
Driving license and access to a car
Not in fulltime employment and willing to take calls through the day
Training and Induction Details
Induction Training
Ongoing Training
Work Type
Homebased Volunteering
Client Group
Homeless / Housing
Womens Groups
Animals
Disaster / emergencies
Health/Hospitals/hospices
Expenses Detail
Each region is given a float to ensure volunteers are not out of pocket, floats are topped up on request.
Frequency & Commitment
Fostering requests calls are transferred to the volunteer's home landline between the hours of 9am-7pm. Often there will be months with no requests at all and other weeks there can be 4-5 requests a week. Volunteering is flexible and we would ask if you could have an answer machine to be able to take messages and return clients calls as needed. Volunteers telephone numbers are never given out by the charity.
Minimum Age
Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age.
Tags
Reference Code
VMP Ref: 1047
Contact Details
PO Box 6
Callander
Scotland
FK17 8ZU
Contact: Natalie Hogg
Tel: 0844 811 9909
Email: volunteeringwithpfss@yahoo.co....
Website: http://www.pfss.org.uk
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Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian, Edinburgh City, Glasgow City, Midlothian, Shetland Islands, West Lothian
