Love Animals and Event Planning? Join the Volunteer Committee that plans the Austin Strut Your Mutt!

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Best Friends Animal Society is looking for volunteers, like you, who are passionate about animals, fundraising and event planning to join the leadership planning committee in your community for the trademark Strut Your Mutt event series.

Time will fly during this five to six month experience. Volunteers will work on a committee with other passionate and talented individuals guided by Best Friends Animal Society event staff.

Watch this fun video to check out what our events are like!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3LD0fmRAvA

Event Coordinator - 3-5 people to work together to plan the walk, festival activities/entertainment, solicit vendor booths, and some local logistics. Key planning responsibilities for the Event Coordinators include: securing donations (items for raffles/budget relief), sourcing food trucks, creating an attendee parking plan, securing local supplies, planning the walk course, sourcing/scheduling stage entertainment, sourcing/planning for tent activities, grassroots marketing, and organizing ideas for social media posts.

Marketing Outreach Lead- 1 person to be responsible for promoting the local Strut Your Mutt event to potential participants through grassroots marketing efforts. The goal is to raise awareness and attendance of the event in their local market by promoting the event to as many people as possible and getting them excited to register for Strut Your Mutt. The lead should use creative and resourceful thinking to reach and excite the masses about the event, and include tactics such as outreach to local businesses and organizations that can promote the event to their audiences, tabling at community events, local calendar/community listings, leveraging community influencers, targeting organizations and community groups to form teams, and collateral distribution.

The Austin event is scheduled for Saturday, September 14th.

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to read the position descriptions.

Interviews are currently being conducted. To be considered for one of these positions, please submit your resume and letter of interest to bfvolcoord@bestfriends.org .