Help our dogs find homes! We need volunteers for these important desk positions. (See our fostering page to be a foster volunteer.) If you’re retired or have extra time and would like to volunteer from home, rescue offers the option to do that. If you’re just starting out in your career, volunteer positions can give you an edge in the job market and the ability to enhance your skills and learn new ones. NGPR is always happy to give a reference for a job well done which has helped volunteers gain paying positions they want. Flex-hours and working at home are additional volunteer perks! Add a new skill to your resume by volunteering. We’re eager to put you and your skills to work. Volunteer by completing the application here and tell us the position you are interested in under “Additional Comments” at the bottom of the volunteer application. Or discuss what you’d like to do with us. Thanks for helping the dogs.
Puppy Team Recruitment: The puppies keep coming in-from shelters, owner surrenders or sometimes just found wandering on the road in rural areas. We can have as many as 40 puppies at a time needing homes.
Our puppy team needs fosters to care for the pups and adoption coordinators (see below) to help them find homes. For both fosters and adoption candidates, we believe that puppies do best in situations where there is an adult dog in the home who can show pups the ropes.
Fosters and adoption coordinators on the Puppy Team work together closely to ensure that each pup, with his or her unique personality goes to a home suitable for them.
Adoption Coordinator
Help find homes for both puppies and dogs. Hands-on experience with the breed preferred. Review applications, respond to applicants and conduct phone interviews with them, do vet checks, set up home visits, recommend appropriate dogs to families from listings of available dogs, coordinate travel arrangements, follow through on adoption contracts and placements of dogs.
Skills: Good organizational and telephone skills, access to a computer and e-mail several times a day. Ability to access Rescue Groups online data base. We do not recommend this position for those who only have phones.
Availability: Can be done during the day or evenings.
Tools: Applications list, adopter list, volunteer list and online dog listings accessible through Rescue Groups software. Coordinators receive an hour of virtual training and are assigned a mentor to work with.
Estimated Time: Flexible, 4+ hours weekly.
How It Works: Coordinators are assigned adoption applications to review and process from the pool of applicants who apply to adopt. We receive an average of six applications day—more for puppies and more during peak adoption times of Spring and Fall.
Media Specialist
Good photos and videos are essential to getting dogs adopted or fostered. It would really help to have a volunteer dedicated to obtaining and replacing photos and videos!
Skills: Good organizational and followup skills, access to a computer and e-mail. Ability to access Rescue Groups online database where all our dogs are listed. Skills should include knowledge of basic photo management (sizing, cropping, image enhancing, etc). We do not recommend this position for those who only have phones.
Availability: Can be done during the day or evenings.
Tools: Volunteer database, photo management software such as Photoshop Elements. We can provide a free subscription to Canva. There will be an initial training period and a mentor will be assigned to work with you.
Estimated Time: Flexible, 2-4+ hours weekly.
How It Works: Using NGPRs online Rescue Groups data base and our adoptable dogs page, identify photos that should be replaced. They might be out of season, poor quality or just need updating. Contact fosters and request new photos be taken and forward those photos to NGPR’s designer.
Transport Coordinator
Volunteer transports take place almost every week at NGPR, and need to be organized by the volunteers, moving the dogs from point A to point B, many times with stops in between.
Skills: Good organizational and telephone skills, access to a computer and e-mail several times a day. Ability to access Rescue Groups online database. We do not recommend this position for those who only have phones.
Availability: Can be done during the day or evenings.
Tools: Volunteer database, volunteer map, transport spreadsheet. Coordinators receive an hour of virtual training and are assigned a mentor to work with for as long as needed. Many times, 2 coordinators work together to make a transport happen.
Estimated Time: Flexible, 2-4+ hours weekly.
How It Works: Coordinators are assigned a transport to work on for at least one dog traveling, given the start and finish points and contacts, and work with tools provided to find volunteer drivers to get the dog moved. Once the drivers are found, meeting spots are selected, and a run sheet is emailed out by the coordinator. This details the dog’s journey, including times, meeting places, vehicle information, cell phones, etc. Coordinator is “on call” to monitor the run.
Social Media Coordinator
Be part of the social media team that helps create and administer content on NGPR’s social media platforms—Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. The goal is to build audience and customer engagement. Create content, schedule posts, monitor site metrics.
Skills: Good organizational skills, online access several times a day. Ability to use Photoshop or other graphics program, copy writing ability, understanding of and ability to analyzing data metrics.
Availability: Able to create 3 or more posts or videos a week and attend regular group meetings.
Tools: Canva access (will be provided), Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or other graphics software, NGPR’s Rescue Groups database.
Estimated Time: Flexible, probably 3+ hours weekly or as needed.
How It Works: Read volunteer posts about fosters dogs in NGPR’s Foster Family Facebook group (and other pages). Use these photos and videos to develop stories to create content for other pages and social media outlets. Share posts and related social media activity.
Data Entry Specialist
Help us manage the huge volume of paperwork of rescue. Upload medical records and other data. Run reports and distribute to other volunteers.
Skills: Ability to upload and download data, access to email and our online Rescue Groups database, familiarity with word processing and spreadsheet programs.
Availability: Can be done during the day or evenings.
Tools: Microsoft Office and Google account for shared spreadsheets. Ability to access Rescue Groups online data base. We do not recommend this position for those who only have phones.
Estimated Time: Flexible, 2+ hours weekly or as needed.
How It Works: Volunteers will be assigned specific tasks that could include uploading medical records, creating journal entries, etc.
If you can drive a transport, do in-home visits or have other skills, visit our “Other Ways to Help” page.
