Found 19 Working with Animals volunteering opportunities in Australia

Our Volunteer Branches support RSPCA NSW by being able to play a vital part in the rehoming process of animals in various locations in NSW. Being 100% volunteer run, our volunteer branches rely on foster care assistance to house their animals while they wait for adoption, as they have no permanent adoption facility

Make a positive impact on the lives of our elderly in aged care! Gregory Lodge located in Flemington requires volunteers to come in with their friendly pet dog to interact with the residents.

To support the RDA(NSW) Tall Timbers Centre by assisting with horse preparation, leading of horses in program sessions, assistance with life skills/groundwork sessions and assisting in the pack up and return of horses to the paddock.

If you have a passion for our native animals come volunteer with us. We'd love to have you on board. You will be caring for our animals, preparing their food, cleaning their environments and getting to love them all.

We are on the lookout for a passionate and creative Social Media Manager to volunteer with our animal sanctuary. Your primary mission will be to magnify our digital footprint, significantly increase our followers, and boost interactions across all our social media platforms. This role is a unique chance to contribute to our cause, fostering a more compassionate and empathetic world through digital storytelling and engagement.

Join us in making a positive impact on our native wildlife by joining forces with us. As a wildlife helper, you will have the opportunity to assist with the rescue, care, and rehabilitation of native animals in need.

Need to have basic dog handling skills. Key Attributes: Animal loving and reliable.

Hi animal lovers! If you love your dog and want to share your time with the patients in the hospital, this position is for you! You must have own animal who is registered with an indemnified company and must be able to prove certification of training registration.

Make a positive impact on the lives of our elderly in aged care! Calwell Mannor located in Safety Beach requires volunteers to come in with their friendly pet dog to interact with the residents.

Love dogs? Become a foster carer & give a dog a second chance

Wildlife Rescue Australia (WRA) is a not-for-profit voluntary association, operating throughout Australia and staffed exclusively by home-based volunteers. It is dedicated to the rescue of Australian native animals, including birds and reptiles. WRA operates a national 24/7 emergency call centre for the rescue of native wildlife.

We currently require Volunteer Foster Carers' to open their homes to cats & kittens, to give them a home while we search for their forever homes! If you have a love of cats and a spare room, this could be the purr-fect opportunity to help us out!

Are you passionate about native wildlife and enjoy interacting with people? Are you interested in learning about native wildlife from WA? The Wildcare Helpline is a telephone referral service operated by volunteers on behalf of the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions and is based at WA Wildlife in Bibra Lake. We are seeking Wildcare Helpline Operators keen to learn and provide advice about wildlife and connect callers with appropriate organisations for further assistance.

Have a passion for helping people and animals? Help create happy paws & hearts with us by volunteering 🐾💞 Send your expression of interest via our website.

Wildlife Welfare Organisation (WWO) is a volunteer based, not for profit organisation providing a free 24/7 community service committed to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of injured and orphaned wildlife on the Southern Fleurieu Peninsula. We provide an important social and humanitarian response to wildlife injuries caused, in the main, by human impact.

If you love animals this may just be the role for you! Foster Carers are needed to take care of a dog or cat in their own home until such time as the animal can be re-homed to its forever home. Carers are asked to give lots of TLC and to handle the animal in order to prepare them for their new home.

ARF is always looking for more loving ‘temporary homes’ for dogs and foster caring can be an extremely rewarding experience. In fact, most foster carers find an extra ‘tail’ in the house comes with a range of benefits. Not least the feeling that you have saved a dog who might otherwise have been euthanised.

Native animals are often in need of a helping hand following accidents with cars, pets, windows, people and other native animals. ACT Wildlife has trained wildlife carers to care for these animals but with increasing habitat loss and suburban expansion our job is ever increasing.

ACT Wildlife rehabilitates injured, sick and orphaned native animals to return them to the wild. Our interface with the public is our 24/7 phone. The day is broken into several shifts and you would be required to have our phone diverted to yours for a shift a week, a fortnight or month, depending on your availability. You will be working from home and have access to our online database to record calls.