Open Leadership Team Positions:
PawsCo’s leadership team is made of volunteer directors and associate directors who help guide all day-to-day operations. Joining leadership team requires a 2-year commitment and members of leadership are expected to join 70% of our monthly (virtual) meetings.
Marketing Director
The role will include the following tasks:
- Social Media leadership: Plan a content schedule for Social that both the Associate Director
and Coordinator will help to execute across Instagram and Facebook. - Email coordination & planning: Maintain a weekly email calendar for all PawsCo
newsletters to both volunteers and donors. Work with Associate Director on building and
sending emails. - Events support: Work with the Events Director to provide signage and/or flyers to promote
PawsCo volunteer opportunities and adoptable animals and increase community awareness - Meeting attendance: Attend once a month meeting (mix of virtual and in-person in Denver).
Candidate must have experience :
- Writing and creating copy for social media posts as well as comfort responding to
comments, DMs, etc - Email marketing and experience creating email audiences
- Copy writing for larger initiatives such as fundraising or upcoming events
- Newsletters are a shared responsibility with Director of Marketing
- Digital design / photoshop experience
- Optional: Salesforce experience and MailChimp experience a plus
Approx hours required: A fairly active roll, active about 1 hour a day
If interested, please email director@pawscoadoptions.org
Marketing Associate Director
The role will include the following tasks:
- Social Media support: Work with the Marketing Director to plan a content schedule for
Social and execute across Instagram and Facebook for daily posts. - Events support: Work with the Events Director to provide signage and/or flyers to promote
PawsCo volunteer opportunities and adoptable animals and increase community awareness - Email support: Help create concepts and write copy for newsletters and execute layouts in
Mailchimp - Meeting attendance: Attend once a month meeting (mix of virtual and in-person in Denver)
Candidate must have experience :
- Writing and creating copy for social media posts as well as comfort responding to
comments, DMs, etc - Copy writing for larger initiatives such as fundraising or upcoming events
- Newsletters are a shared responsibility with Director of Marketing
- Optional: Digital design / photoshop experience to help Marketing Director with design
projects for swag & collateral
Approx hours required: A fairly active roll, active about 1 hour a day
If interested, please email director@pawscoadoptions.org
Intake Associate Director
This role is overseen by the Intake Director.
- Work with Intake Director to keep track of foster supplies
- Monitor food supply and order foster food supply
- Organize donations from supplies at PawsCo headquarters
- Oversee intake coordinator schedule so that fosters can get
- Headquarters is located in south Denver and you’ll be asked to visit this location once or twice a week.
- If interested, please email dicia@pawscoadoptions.org.
Events Director and Events Associate Director
The Events Associate Director is overseen by the Events Director.
- Associate Director to assist the Events Director in managing the events@pawscoadoptions.org inbox.
- Both will work with the marketing team to create promotional materials for scheduled events.
- Community outreach for future events.
- Hours vary based on events schedule.
- If interested, please email volunteer@pawscoadoptions.org
Open General Volunteer Roles:
Donations Coordinator
This role is overseen by the Intake Director.
- Manage the intake of all donation items at our headquarters in Denver
- For all donations, determine if PawsCo can use the items or determine another non-profit to send the donation items to
- Coordinate getting any extra donation items not kept by PawsCo to other non-profits
- For any questions, please reach out to the Intake Director, Dicia, at dicia@pawscoadoptions.org
TNR Volunteers
This role is overseen by the Transport Team Director.
- We are seeking transport volunteers to help release cats from local shelters following spay/neuter.
- The TNR process is simple: community cats are humanely trapped, brought to a shelter clinic to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and ear-tipped (the universal sign that a cat has been spayed or neutered through a TNR program), then returned to the outdoor homes to which they are bonded so they can live out their lives where they thrive.
- PawsCo volunteers support our local shelters by transporting TNR cats back to their original location and releasing them outside.
- Transport is general from a central Denver shelter to an area requiring a 15-45 minute drive.
- Volunteers generally take 1-3 trips per month and can select a date and time.
Transport Volunteers
This role is overseen by the Transport Team Director.
- Volunteer to drive animals to/from appointments.
- Can commit to as few or as many drives as desired each month with no upfront commitment
- Get to interact and see cute dogs/puppies, cats/kittens
- Low commitment, high reward volunteer role
- Can also provide transport to fun adoption events and hang out with an animal at a local restaurant or brewery (monthly)
Photographers
This role is overseen by the Photography Director.
- This role only requires 2-3 hours per month based on the amount of animals brought into foster care and also the amount of events we have scheduled.
- Take pictures of foster animals at intake (intake is held twice a month on Saturdays and you only need to sign up for a few throughout the year.)
- Photograph foster animals and volunteers at events
- Please reach out to staceym@pawscoadoptions.org for more information!
Intake Coordinators
This role is overseen by the Intake Director.
- The Intake Team needs volunteers to help out with intakes! These coordinators will need to commit to attending two intakes per quarter.
- Intakes occur twice a month on Saturdays (11am-1pm) at HQ. Dates of intakes will be known the month before.
- Please email Dicia at dicia@pawscoadoptions.org if you are interested!
Transport Team Coordinators
This role is overseen by the Senior Director of Animal Relations.
- The Transport Team is looking for two volunteers to help with coordinating transports and other tasks on a consistent basis.
- This would be anywhere from 1-5 hours per week (this can depend on the week, could be more or less) and would be fully remote work.
- Access to check emails multiple times a day is a must.
- Please reach out to Jake at jake@pawscoadoptions.org if you are interested.
Adoption Coordinator
This role is overseen by the Adoptions Director.
- Role is fully remote and can be done on a computer.
- Call selected applicants for further screening.
- Assist Adoptions Director in coordinating application screenings and meet and greets.
- Assist in either attending the meet and greet or finding a volunteer to attend the meet and greet.
- Ensure that adoption processes meet PACFA requirements.
- Approximately, 5-7 hours per week.
- If interested, please email anais@pawscoadoptions.
org
Adoption Meet & Greet Volunteers
- As a volunteer at our pet adoption meet and greets, you will have the opportunity to play a vital role in helping animals find their forever homes.
- Your responsibilities may include greeting potential adopters, introducing them to our animals, answering any questions they may have, and assisting with the adoption process.
- This is a great opportunity to make a difference in the lives of animals in need and to connect loving families with their new furry companions!
- No previous experience is necessary, just a love for animals and a willingness to help. Join us in our mission to find loving homes for all of our deserving pets!
- If interested, please email adopt@pawscoadoptions.org