Foster Placement Volunteer

Description: Foster Placement Volunteers serve the incredibly important role of placing incoming animals into foster homes. You will help ensure each animal has a loving, temporary home prior to its arrival. This is a critical position that will require consistent effort and excellent communication. In return, you will experience the incredibly rewarding experience of personally helping to save the lives of over a thousand animals in need.

• Reports To: Foster and Adoption Manager.
• Location and Schedule: Remote work. Days/hours vary based on the number of animals in care. 
• Time Commitment:  Approximately 5-10 hours per/wk. We request a minimum of 3 months in this role. 

Core Responsibilities include:

1) Placement

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of each available foster parent, their preferences, experience, expertise, and limitations.
• Match incoming animals with the most appropriate available foster.
• Reach out to each foster individually.
• Gain commitment from fosters that they will pick up their animal at transport.
• Work with the Intake and Medical Manager to acquire the medical history of incoming animals.
• Update and maintain the foster database with appropriate placement information.

2) Communication

• Work closely with the Adoption and Foster Manager, volunteer Coordinator, and peers.
• Respond to all emails, Facebook posts and Slack messages relating to foster placement
• Post an intake album on our private FB group page
• Work with the returns coordinator for any pet that is being returned to the rescue.
• Evaluate the foster placement process and make suggestions for improvements.

Qualifications: Are you?

• A positive and professional teammate?
• An animal lover, committed to saving the lives of animals in need?
• An equally good people-person?
• An excellent communicator?
• Cool under pressure, able to calmly navigate high pressure situations?
• Able to engage in discussions with others about commitments.
• Extremely organized?
• Willing to gain a deep understanding of the fostering process?
• Willing to maintain open, honest, and frequent communications. 
• Familiar with Google Sheets, Slack, and/or other administrative and data entry systems? 
• Have access to a phone, computer, and internet access?

If this sounds like you, please help Louie’s Legacy achieve our Vision to help rescue more animals, more efficiently, by working in a positive, professional and collaborative way with our community.

Important note - Must be over 18 years old to volunteer. All Louie’s Legacy volunteers with access to internal communications, financial information, or personally identifying information must also: 

• Commit to demonstrating the values outlined in our Organizational Cultural Agreement. 
• Sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement in order to maintain a safe and responsible relationship with our volunteers, donors, fosters, and adopters.