Give the Time of Your Life
| We are looking for people to come and join
our team! Are you interested in working with dogs and with people to help clear the path for a rescue GSD to find his true Forever Family? Are you ready to feel the joy of being involved in the perfect placement of a great dog with a loving, deserving family? Or are you thinking about how great it would be if you could get more involved in helping GSRNE evaluate and take in new dogs and work with them? Or does helping foster homes and foster dogs "be all that they can be" sound attractive to you? Or would you like to help "save the day" by organizing transports for dogs? If so, please read the following job openings in GSRNE and contact the listed person for more information.
All positions involve a training period and lots of support from the current team.
There are many other jobs that we can use help with. Many of these don't take a lot of time, just someone dependable that can give some time as needed. Please drop us a line if you can help us!
Jeannie McMahon valjeanmc@comcast.net
1.) Assistant Foster Home Coordinators
We'd love to have a number of people working in this capacity, in different areas of New England. This job involves working directly with both the dogs and with foster home people. This job is one of the most "hands-on" parts of GSRNE and can be very satisfying work as you watch "your" foster dogs blossom and your foster homes develop dog handling skills! This is where you can make a *major* difference in the life of a dog, and in the life of the foster homes caring for those dogs.
Job Description: · You understand the basics of dog behavior and can help foster families with a foster dog's basic issues. You enjoy working with dogs and making incremental improvements in their behavior. We prefer that you have a basic grounding in dog behavior, but you don't have to be anything of an expert. GSRNE will provide guidance, guidelines, and backup support for you to help "your" foster homes and continue to learn at the same time.
· You enjoy teaching people and look forward to enhancing their "dog knowledge" as foster homes. This is what ensures the success of each dog, after all! You like demonstrating and explaining to people how to work with a dog, you like people and dogs, and you enjoy training challenges as they crop up. You understand that different types of people sometimes need different approaches to learning how to handle the varying temperaments and activity levels of GSDs.
· You like to talk with people in person and on the phone (and possibly in email, too). You look forward to chatting with foster homes about their dogs on a regular basis, offering suggestions and help, perhaps meeting them and working with them on their foster dog occasionally.
· This job does involve some travel once in awhile, so you need a vehicle that works. We'd like to set up Assistant Foster Coordinators regionally so that travel is kept to a bare minimum, however. Travel involved is sporadic, not constant: it could be taking a dog from our intake facility to his new foster home to help him settle in; perhaps sometimes visiting a foster dog at his foster home to demonstrate some techniques to work on; or perhaps attending an adoption visit for that dog with the foster home.
· You would review regular progress reports on your foster homes and their dogs - you need to be interested in how your foster dogs are doing, and be willing to share the information with the Foster Home Coordinator (FHC) on a regular basis via email or phone. You would be reporting on all behavior work you're doing, providing updates on each dog, asking questions and learning new techniques from the FHC to try, etc. We'll be working together to help make each dog as adoptable as possible.
· You may work with the Adoption Coordinators, the Dog Intake Coordinator, and the Dog Transport Coordinator to help facilitate both ends of the rescue process, between Intake to Adoption.
· You must have email and telephone access for this position.
This position is one of the best ways to become immersed in dog behavior work and hone your skills with humans, too. You will get to know the working team of GSRNE very well. Your dog knowledge will expand exponentially as you gain hands-on experience in working with different kinds of dogs and different kinds of people. While it may sound like a lot, the interesting part of this is that most people do this part-time, on a regular schedule, while working full-time. Ideally, you'd have only 1-3 foster homes to work with at a time, and can concentrate clearly on just your group of dogs/foster people.
Contact Jeannie McMahon valjeanmc@comcast.net to discuss this opening
2.) Assistant Adoption CoordinatorThis job involves you in the heart of the Adoption process! As part of the Adoptions team, you will be one of the main faces representing GSRNE and you will work with a number of different departments in the group. You'll be doing hands-on work with people waiting to adopt and people actively in the adoption process. This job has huge rewards of seeing our dogs matched to people who dearly want a new GSD in their lives. You will see firsthand the magic of when a dog finds their forever people! It helps to have a strong background in GSDs and their varying temperaments and needs. You also should like to give advice and help people resolve any potential problem that might crop up. Of course, you can depend on lots of guidance and support from GSRNE! Job Description · This is a telephone-oriented position. You will be speaking on the telephone with our adoption applicants at various stages of the adoption process to update them on progress, find out more information from them, and set up adoption visits. This role is very important! You will need to have some dedicated time each week to do this, and it really helps if you like talking with people, especially about their dogs. Good listening skills are essential. · Assist in making adoption matches, organizing adoption applications, coordinating your parts of the Adoption effort, etc. · Work with the Foster Home Coordinator to help match dogs to families. · Facilitate a smooth adoption process for our applicants. · Interviewing skills are a big plus, if you have them. If you enjoy interviewing people ("interviewing" like Barbara Walters does, not like for a job interview), this is a fascinating job. Finding out what makes a dog right for a family is fun, and it is important. · Attend adoption visits at the foster home to see if the rescue dog and potential adopters are the right match! You will need to be an observant person in these situations to be sure that excitement over a possible adoption doesn't lead to shoehorning the wrong dog into the wrong family. · Prepare adoption materials, explain the adoption contract, provide dog leadership training to new adopters and give advice on how to integrate their new rescue dog into their homes. · Follow up with your adopters to ensure the adoption is successful. · Some infrequent travel is necessary to foster homes for adoption visits. You can choose whether to have adopters come to you for contract signing meetings or to travel to their homes. · There is training available for this position, and other GSRNE Adoption team people will be available to you for questions and guidance as you learn. · You must have email and telephone access for this position. Contact Jeannie McMahon valjeanmc@comcast.net to discuss this opening We, of course, have many other volunteer opportunities, but we REALLY need help with the above jobs. Many hands lighten any load and quite frankly, we need YOUR input and support now. Every person counts!. Please think about donating some of your precious time to help save needy German Shepherd Dogs. |
