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Volunteers are the life blood of Basset Hound Rescue of Southern California.

As an all-volunteer run organization, we would not exist or continue to save hounds without the love, compassion, and hard work of our volunteers. Dedicating your time to the hounds is enormously rewarding because the hounds allow you to become part of their journey to their forever homes.

Whether you're able to volunteer a few hours a month or many, whether you live locally or in another state or you're willing to open your home to a hound in need, we can always find ways for you to contribute on a meaningful level.

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The Hounds Are Recruiting For These Positions

Spring Games Coordinator

The Spring Games Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the planning and execution of our annual Spring Games held in the spring in Irvine, with the help of a large planning committee.

The Spring Games Coordinator helps assemble and oversee a committee to assist in the fundraising efforts, gathering vendors, collecting raffle prizes, etc. They work closely with the Board of Directors (BOD) on event approval and budget and social media, PR and newsletter teams on promoting events as well as the foster and adoption teams as needed.

The Spring Games Coordinator will track expenses and income for the event and report this information to the BOD and the Donor Development Coordinator for assessment and help with the development of the yearly fundraising plan as needed. The Event Coordinator is not obligated to help with other fundraising coordinator’s lead events but is encouraged to do so. The Spring Games Coordinator must be available to volunteer at Spring Games held annually in June.

This position sits on our Executive Committee and requires participation in a meeting via conference call 2 times per year and an in-person meeting twice per year.

Bids & Bites for Bassets Coordinator

The Bids and Bites for Bassets Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the planning and execution of our annual Bids and Bites for Bassets held in October in Orange County, with the help of a planning committee.

The Bids and Bites Coordinator helps assemble and oversee a committee to assist in the fundraising efforts, collecting auction and raffle prizes, etc. They work closely with the Board of Directors (BOD) on event approval and budget and social media, PR and newsletter teams on promoting events as well as the foster and adoption teams as needed.

The Bids and Bites Coordinator will track expenses and income for the event and report this information to the BOD and the Donor Development Coordinator for assessment and help with the development of the yearly fundraising plan as needed. The Event Coordinator is not obligated to help with other fundraising coordinator’s lead events but is encouraged to do so. The Bids and Bites Coordinator must be available to volunteer at Bids and Bites held annually in October. This position sits on our Executive Committee and requires participation in a meeting via conference call 2 times per year and an in-person meeting twice per year.

MailChimp Coordinator

The MailChimp Coordinator (MCC) is responsible for designing, editing, and sending all of the BHRSC email blasts using the MailChimp interface. BHRSC sends out the monthly e-newsletter, plus 1 to 3 additional email blasts each month. There is also an occasional special fundraising campaign that goes out via email. It is estimated that the job requires 8 – 10 hours per month, mostly around the dates of the email blast. There is a master BHRSC calendar with dates for all scheduled email blasts which you will follow. The MCC is part of the Associate Executive Committee (AEC).

E-news:

Monthly content is established at the beginning of the year and the MCC will follow that schedule for the articles and features each month.
Communicate with BHRSC volunteers, informing each person of the newsletter elements that they are responsible for providing, and the deadline for delivery.
Gather all elements required for each monthly issue from all of the volunteers assigned to them.
Build the e-newsletter within the MailChimp interface. This includes selecting color themes, font variations as needed, button, banner or other imagery as needed, and determine placement of each copy and image block.
Send test e-newsletters to President and Vice President for review at least 72 hours prior to the send date and make appropriate edits/changes.
Upon Presidential approval, send e-newsletter on assigned mail date.

Other email blasts:

Requests for any additional email campaigns not on the schedule will come from the President or Vice President only
BHRSC style is to capitalize “Basset Hound” but simply “basset” or “hound” is not
If you like working in Photoshop, you can get creative with graphics and images
Browse previous campaigns to see how emails were constructed. The campaigns from 2016-2019 usually follow the file naming convention Title-Of-Campaign_YYMMDD.
Send test campaigns to President and Vice President for review at least 72 hours prior to the send date and make appropriate edits/changes.
Upon Presidential approval, send the email blast on the assigned mail date.

Special fundraising campaigns:

Requests for a special campaign are usually time sensitive and require quick action.
Information, including pictures and text, for these campaigns will come from the Fundraising Coordinator.
Send test campaigns to President, Vice President, and the Fundraising Coordinator for review at least 72 hours prior to the send date and make appropriate edits/changes.
Upon Presidential approval, send the email blast on the assigned mail date.

Owner Surrender Facilitator

The ideal candidate will be close to the Orange and Huntington Beach area, will be available multiple days/times a week to allow for maximum flexibility, and be a compassionate individual that will be able to console sad owners when needed.

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