Volunteer Opportunities
Students
Students 18+ with an interest in a the veterinary field have the opportunity to learn about veterinary medicine, animal handling, fear free handling and hands on experience while helping animals and owners within our community.
Volunteers
Heart4Animals relies on volunteers to minimize the costs of the services we provide. There are a wide variety of roles that can be filled by volunteers.
Volunteer Opportunities
Ground Team
These volunteers will need to be comfortable speaking with people in communities, particularly those underserved communities, to:
- Learn their needs
- Gain their trust
- Build relationships
- Determine community leaders
Research Team
These volunteers must love research, data, and data analysis. These volunteers will be gathering information from Maryland shelters, rescues and other sources to determine:
- Which areas have the highest surrender rates to determine where the needs are the largest.
- Finding out which local rescues and/or shelters may need our help, how frequently and what services they are most likely to need
Phone Call Team
These volunteers will be contacting specific potential parking locations to help determine
- Where we can provide pop-up service
- How often
- What specific needs of the parking location would be (for example costs, insurance, etc.),
Check in/Check out Volunteers
These volunteers will need to be available for full days of volunteering. Their duties will include, but not be limited to:
- Using tablets to ensure all necessary information regarding pets/owners are obtained
- Ensuring owners sign necessary waivers
- Ensure smooth patient check in/check out process
Customer Service
These volunteers will be trained in a wide variety of tasks including, but not limited to:
- Managing phone call communications
- Setting up appointments
- Managing emails communications
Medical Assistants
These volunteers will be trained to complete various tasks to support veterinary operations, including but not limited to:
- Recovery monitoring
- Instrument cleaning, disinfection and packing
- Assisting with inventory
- Animal handling
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