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Volunteer Job Description.
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Volunteer Supervisor. This person is good with people, and gives credit where credit is due. The Volunteer supervisor “manages” the volunteers in the same way that a company manages its staff, keeping job descriptions, evaluating performances, motivating staff and giving good guidance. He/she also ensures that all volunteers are properly trained and orientated. To volunteer, please click here.
Office Work. We need office "wizards". Volunteers help in the office with making arrangements, telephone calls, responding to calls, receiving and answering emails, data entry, placing orders, conducting internet research, mailings and just about everything else under the sun. And if you are good with a computer, even better. To volunteer, please click here.
Newsletter. All volunteers can contribute to writing articles in the quarterly newsletter. These articles can be submitted by email or paper. A coordinator is needed to collect all the articles, type them up, and submit them to arf_sxm@yahoo.com or one of the Animals R Friends board members for publishing on the website and on paper. To volunteer, please click here.
Fundraising Events. ARFSXM would love to have people to organize and run fundraisers. We need volunteers to put together ideas and follow up on these ideas. Some examples include: putting together contests like the most photogenic animal for a calendar, etc. We have collection boxes which need to be verified every week and funds deposited into the bank. We need funds for many things like: the Reward for information of the burned dog, for office supplies and copies, for TNR traps, for costs of veterinarian help, for a vehicle, for adoption marketing, for education funding, etc. etc. To volunteer, please click here.
Web Site Updating. The web site can potentially reach huge masses of people and it needs to be updated weekly to include success stories, wish lists, donation requests…whatever is deemed important during the week. This is a very important tool for reaching many people, not only in our community, but around the world. To volunteer, please click here.
Education. Education is not a simple program and requires ongoing efforts to find effective methods of communicating and teaching people and children. Teaching people for tomorrow to save animal's lives will require persistent and dedicated educators. The community needs to be made aware of “no kill” policies all around the world, of committed efforts to more spaying and neutering of animals, of management of feral cat colonies, of “no chaining of animals”, etc. To volunteer, please click here.
Outreach Staffing. ARFSXM outreach is important for spreading the word about what ARFSXM does. Outreach staffers set up and staff tables, sell merchandise at animal events, beer busts and fundraisers, hand out flyers, and meet one on one with persons living or visiting St. Maarten. To volunteer, please click here.
Newspeople. Reports of animal cruelty cases and animal success stories are important as it tells everyone what happening and keeps everyone up to date. We should be on the forefront of what is happening with animals in St. Maarten. We need people who are willing to write stories, take pictures, and follow up. To volunteer, please click here.
Exercising Animal. There are many people who do not understand the underlying effects of restricting their animals from exercise. As part of the education process and to help the animals, we need volunteers to visit households and offer their assistance to walk and play with the animals (mostly dogs). To volunteer, please click here.
Transporting Animals. One day in the future, it may be necessary to seek financial help to obtain a vehicle so the person who is available for transporting animals may also liaise with the fundraising group to put that on the priority list. However, without a vehicle at the moment, we need people to volunteer, when and if the occasion arises, to transport animals to the veterinarian, to the foster home, to the owners, wherever. To volunteer, please click here.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS:
T-N-R (Trap/Neuter/Release). Along with setting up such a program will include education of what T-N-R is and how it will benefit the community.
Foster Parenting. When there are animals found who have been abused or who are very sick and need some tender loving care, we need to find special people who will take care of these animals until they are healthy and strong enough to be adopted quickly afterward. Because we have no shelter, this program needs to be set up carefully and must be monitored also, very carefully.
Adoption / Marketing. We need people to set up programs to help bring the animals to the people to make sure that every opportunity is given to the animals for a good life. Many people “fear” going into adoption centers or veterinary offices to see the animals up for adoption, because they cannot take all the animals and are so afraid of the consequences.
Volunteers must make others aware that euthanization of healthy animals is wrong and alternatives have to be sought and acted upon.
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