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Time Commitment: Up to 5hrs weekly

Role Overview: Are you super into strategizing? Do you love setting and then realizing exciting, yet attainable goals? Well, you've come to the right place! Save Our Scruff is looking to bring on a Fundraising Coordinator who’s totally into taking on the challenge of planning, monitoring and tracking our fundraising events and activities throughout the year.

To really shine in this role, the right individual will have strong interpersonal skills and know how to communicate effectively. Why? You'll be working to maintain super strong relationships with our partner organizations and community members. Day-to-day, you’ll be assisting us in researching and identifying new fundraising opportunities, keeping records, and providing monthly updates regarding fundraising duties. There will also be opportunities to attend in-person events. Think this kind of role is one that you’d shine in? Let us know!

General Skills

• Strong interpersonal & time management skills
• Positive and enthusiastic nature
• Good with email, excel, google forms and other platforms
• Open-minded, creative and flexible
• Comfortable reaching out to people and making new connections

Bonus points if you have previous fundraising experience.

Ready to Make a Difference? If you think you’re a great fit for this role, we’d love to hear from you! Please fill in our application form to move forward with next steps and tell us why you think you’d make a great fit! We also recommend attaching a resume, because, why not?!

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Time Commitment: 10-15 hrs/week with a 1-year commitment

Role Overview: A lot goes on behind the scenes to get foster dogs into the care of our amazing foster families and ultimately into their forever homes, which is why we need you! From onboarding new fosters and coaching them while the dog is in care, to working with a fantastic team to coordinate everything—supplies, vet visits, training, and even photoshoots—you’ll ensure the dogs and humans are set up for success. You’ll also guide adopters through the adoption process, preparing and supporting them throughout their adoption trial. While this role primarily focuses on working with people, you play a crucial role in helping dogs find loving, permanent homes—creating space for another dog to get their chance at a happy ending.

What We're Looking For

• Availability (checking email daily, some flexibility in your schedule for a few calls or interviews per week)
• Excellent soft skills (specifically critical thinking, conflict management and emotional intelligence)
• Comfortable with live communication (phone calls, google meets)
• Initiative (completing tasks proactively without prompts, looking for learning opportunities)
• Works well independently and as a team
• Basic experience with dogs
• Patience and genuine interest in helping humans

Bonus points if you:

• Have fostered or adopted through any organization
• Have worked through behavioural challenges with a dog
• Love using google sheets, gmail and slack

Ready to Make a Difference? If you think you’re a great fit for this role, we’d love to hear from you! Please fill in our application form to move forward with next steps and tell us why you think you’d make a great fit!

TORONTO MERCHANDISE PICK-UP HUB

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We're looking for someone to help us host a Toronto pick up spot without the red box on this map, ideally In the centre of it.

Reponsibilities include:

• Picking up orders from Lakeview Animal Hospital or Clarkson area 2-4 times a month. Weekly is ideal especially around holidays, bi-weekly in some cases work, especially for slower months. Usually 1-5 orders a week, more in Nov-Dec.
• Replying to an email connecting you with the customer to arrange their PU time. Depending on your situation, that could be a porch pick up or hand off.
• Having a car and porch are ideal for the tasks mentioned above.

Action Required: If interested, please fill in our application form to move forward with next steps and tell us why you think you’d make a great fit! We also recommend attaching a resume, because, why not?!

SUPPLY ASSISTANT (NORTH YORK)

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Time Commitment: 1-2 days per week for a few hours, with a 1 year commitment

Role Overview: Perform supply and inventory tasks directly supporting the Supply Lead

Do you live in or nearby North York? Do you have a flexible day schedule between 9AM-4PM? Are you totally into supporting SOS’s mission? The role of the volunteer Supply Assistant supports all three!

SOS is looking for a certain someone with a flexible enough schedule that would allow for them to respond promptly in the North York area. In this role, you will be directly supporting the Supply Team when supplies are needed at the container for pickup and or organization. Typically duties are identified with notice, so you can fit them into your weekly schedule. Some ad-hoc requests may come through as well. This role can include heavy lifting and unfortunately working with items that need cleaning or tossing (although we ask all donations to be cleaned ahead of time).

General Skills:

• Strong organizational & communication skills
• Task oriented
• Independent as well as team oriented
• General Labour (sorting, organizing, lifting, moving)

In order to apply for this position, you will need access to drive to our supply warehouse in North York and have a flexible day schedule.

Bonus points if you:

• Are Marie Kondo
• Have a friend or family member that may be interested in helping you at times

Action Required: If interested, please fill in our application form to move forward with next steps and tell us why you think you’d make a great fit! We also recommend attaching a resume, because, why not?!

TRANSPORT VOLUNTEER

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Time Commitment: Completely up to you! The awesome part of being a Transport Volunteer is you will receive requests for transport needs via email – if it works for you sign on up! If not, all good, maybe the next one will.

Role Overview: Work with the SOS team to safely transport rescue dogs from Pearson Airport, vetting appointments in Mississauga or foster home transfers throughout Toronto, Burlington, Hamilton, Guelph, Mississauga and many other Southern ON locations like King City, Kitchener/Waterloo, Owen Sound, Kawarthas… we're all over.

In this role you’ll be required to use your car/truck/van to transport dogs and/or supplies such as crates, to where they need to go! We want to make sure transporting goes as smoothly as possible (for the dogs AND you) so we’re definitely looking for someone that knows a thing or two about responsibility and clear communication. Our top priority is safety, so you’ll need to be able to secure dogs in your vehicle as you transport them (we will show you how!) This role can require contact (your choice dependent on comfort/task sign ups) with our sweet (and some times nervous) scruffs so you’ll need to be comfortable handing dogs. No surprise there! If you’ve got some extra time and energy and think this role is right for you, please sign up! Oh and you get to join a community of SOS Transport Volunteers! All new transporters will go through a 30 minute online training session where you can also ask any questions you have.

General Skills:

• Communication, responsible and reliable
• Car with climate control and a valid driver’s license
• Bonus points if you have previous experience calmly meeting and support dogs

Bonus points if you have:

• If you have a large vehicle! You're a rare commodity
• Like late night or early morning transports... our airport visits are usually for night owls or early birds
• Travel through Mississauga often (Cawthra exit). That is one of our main hubs for supplies as well as our vet office for all the scruffs
• Are in North York often – supply pick up/drop offs are often at our North York storage containers