Your profession is a donation too

Grant writing, IT and fundraiser coordination

Alongside hands-on animal work, BAM specifically asks for people with professional skills: grant writing, fundraiser coordination, and IT or website assistance. These are the jobs that keep a small rescue funded and visible, and they can often be done on your own schedule. Interested people complete the same volunteer form and note the skill they want to offer.

Where:

Hurricane, UT (some work can be done remotely)

Mentor2.0 (high school college & career mentor)

Mentor a high school student towards college and career. You write to your mentee weekly through a digital platform and meet in person at monthly events held at the partner school. It suits someone who can share workplace and further-education experience with a teenager and keep up steady written contact across the school year.

Commitment:

At least one year; weekly digital contact plus monthly in-person events

Where:

Partner high schools

Working group volunteer, monitoring, outreach, fundraising, finance

Beyond the field crew, DPI organises into six working groups and needs people with matching skills: project management to get landowner approval for removals, field operations to manage equipment, monitoring to revisit restored sites every three months, outreach to build community relationships and materials, fundraising and grant work, and finance for budgets. Some of this can be done remotely.

Commitment:

Ongoing; remote participation available

Where:

Southwest Utah, with remote options

Music, Art, Pet Therapy and Spiritual Support Volunteer

Alongside patient visiting, Dixie Hospice lists music therapy, art therapy, pet therapy and spiritual support among its volunteer roles, together with community education and event planning. Volunteers with these skills are trained in hospice practice first and receive membership of the Hospice Volunteer Association and specialty in-service training.

Where:

Patients' homes and care facilities in the St. George area

Board of Trustees and Board Committee Service

DOVE Center lists board and committee service among its volunteer possibilities, alongside public education. This is governance work for people who can bring professional judgement, finance, law, fundraising, community leadership, to the direction of a small shelter and advocacy agency serving survivors across Washington County.

Where:

St. George

Hospital Advocate Response Team (HART)

Hospital advocates go to St George Regional Hospital to sit with victims of rape, sexual assault and domestic violence, one to one, at the worst hour of their lives. It is a serious commitment: forty hours of UCASA advocacy training on top of DOVE's basic training, then being on call overnight or through the day several times each month.

Commitment:

On-call for 12-24 hours, three or more times a month

Where:

St George Regional Hospital, St. George

Internship (marketing, operations, programming, outreach)

Encircle offers internships in marketing, operations, programming and outreach. These are structured placements for students or early-career people who want to bring a professional skill to an organisation supporting LGBTQ+ youth and their families, and to learn how a small nonprofit runs day to day.

Where:

Encircle locations, including St. George

Project and skill-based volunteer

Give a professional skill on a project basis rather than a season: social media, graphic design, photography or videography. The council uses this help for programme promotion and to capture the season and 5K. Sign up through their volunteer interest form and they will match you to a project when one comes up.

Commitment:

Flexible, project by project

Where:

Remote or in Washington and Iron counties

Volunteer Coach

Lead a team of girls through the Girls on the Run curriculum across a ten-week season, meeting twice a week for 90 minutes after school and finishing with the celebratory 5K. All training, curriculum and supplies are provided at no cost to you, and there is no lesson planning. The organisation is clear that you do not need to be a runner.

Commitment:

10-week season, two 90-minute practices a week, late afternoon or early evening, plus the end-of-season 5K

Where:

School sites across Washington and Iron counties

Board Secretary

Kindness In Motion is looking for a Secretary to join our board. This is the person who keeps the memory of the organisation, taking the minutes at board meetings, keeping our records and filings in order, and making sure the decisions we make actually get written down and followed through. It suits someone organised and steady who would rather build the quiet foundation than stand at the front. You would be joining an all volunteer board that is genuinely trying to make Southern Utah easier to get help in, and your work would hold the whole thing together.

Commitment:

Board meetings every two months, plus the record keeping in between

Where:

St. George and Ivins, with remote work possible

Join our Board

Root for Kids invites people to join its board of directors, governance work for an organisation running Early Head Start, Early Intervention and parent home-visiting programmes across four counties. It suits someone with professional or leadership experience who can give sustained strategic attention rather than occasional hours.

Where:

St. George

Audition as an orchestral musician

The symphony invites musicians to audition to play with the orchestra, and runs a Young Artist Competition for emerging players. If you have kept up an instrument and want to play regularly in a full symphonic setting rather than on your own, this is the main route into orchestral playing in Washington County. Enquiries and audition arrangements go through the symphony office.

Commitment:

Concert season

Where:

America First Performing Arts Center, 325 S. 700 E, St. George, UT 84770

Adult Education Tutor

Provide one-on-one or small group tutoring to residents enrolled in GED or college-level courses. Steady, patient teaching that helps someone finish the qualification that changes what work they can take.

Commitment:

Shifts arranged with the volunteer coordinator

Where:

Switchpoint campus, 948 N 1300 W, St. George

Career Coach

Assist clients with job searching, resume building and interview skills. Bring what you know about how hiring actually works, and help someone walk into an interview ready.

Commitment:

Shifts arranged with the volunteer coordinator

Where:

Switchpoint campus, 948 N 1300 W, St. George

Circles Ally

Become an intentional friend. Allies offer emotional support, help Circle leaders turn their goals into manageable steps, and share life experience and advice when it is asked for. A longer, relational commitment rather than a shift.

Commitment:

Shifts arranged with the volunteer coordinator

Where:

Switchpoint campus, 948 N 1300 W, St. George

Computer Learning Assistant

Teach basic computer skills to people who are looking for work, email, applications, resumes, staying safe online. For someone job hunting without a device at home, this is the difference between applying and not.

Commitment:

Shifts arranged with the volunteer coordinator

Where:

Switchpoint campus, 948 N 1300 W, St. George

Legal Support

Provide legal support to individuals working through the barriers that keep them from stable housing and work. Requires a current license to practice in the State of Utah.

Commitment:

Shifts arranged with the volunteer coordinator

Where:

Switchpoint campus, 948 N 1300 W, St. George

Volunteer Dental Assistant

Work chairside with the volunteer dentists: assisting during treatment, sterilising instruments, preparing materials, taking x-rays and going through aftercare instructions with patients. It keeps the free dental clinic moving, which matters because dental appointments here are booked by phone and demand outstrips the hours available.

Where:

1036 East Riverside Drive, St. George, UT 84790

Volunteer Dental Provider

Licensed dentists, practising or retired, are needed for the clinic's dental service. Dental pain is one of the commonest reasons low-income patients end up in emergency rooms, and a volunteer dentist's session here means fillings, extractions and treatment for people who could not otherwise pay for any of it. Dental appointments are arranged by phone.

Where:

1036 East Riverside Drive, St. George, UT 84790

Volunteer Healthcare Scribe

Scribes sit in on appointments in the medical or mental health clinics and document the encounter as it happens, so the provider can concentrate on the patient rather than the keyboard. It needs fast, accurate typing, at least sixty words a minute, and a reliable weekly presence over several months.

Commitment:

Minimum one 3-hour shift weekly for four months

Where:

1036 East Riverside Drive, St. George, UT 84790

Volunteer Medical Provider

Practising and retired physicians and other licensed medical providers are needed to see patients in the clinic. These are people in Southern Utah with no insurance and little money, for whom this clinic is the only door open. The clinic runs entirely on donated professional time and delivers over 15,000 patient encounters a year on that basis.

Where:

1036 East Riverside Drive, St. George, UT 84790

Volunteer Medical, Dental or Mental Health Provider

Practising and retired licensed providers give clinic sessions to patients who have no insurance and nowhere else affordable to go. Medical, dental and mental health providers are all welcomed, and separate application forms are posted for medical and dental clinicians. For a retired doctor or dentist in Washington County, this is a way to keep using a lifetime of skill.

Where:

1036 East Riverside Drive, St. George, UT 84790

Volunteer Mental Health Provider

The clinic runs a mental health service alongside its medical and dental clinics, and needs licensed practising or retired mental health professionals to see patients. Counselling is otherwise far out of reach for uninsured people in Washington County, so donated clinical hours here fill a genuine gap. Applications are made directly by email to the clinic.

Where:

1036 East Riverside Drive, St. George, UT 84790

Bookkeeper and website maintainer

TASU is openly asking for people to take over specific organisational roles, a bookkeeper to handle the alliance's finances, and someone willing to maintain its website. These are the unglamorous jobs that keep a volunteer trail organisation functioning between work days. Email your contact information and skills and expect a reply within a day.

Commitment:

Ongoing role

Where:

Southern Utah; much of the work can be done remotely

Sales manager for society publications

The society sells posters, documents, DVDs and other historical material, and needs someone organised to look after it. You would keep track of what is in stock and pack and ship orders out to buyers. It is a steady behind-the-scenes role that keeps a small volunteer-run society funded, and it suits anyone comfortable with inventory, record-keeping and getting parcels out on time.

Website technical consultant

The society is looking for one or more people with real technical know-how to act as consultants on its website. Useful experience includes web authoring tools, CSS, HTML and PHP. The site is a large public archive of county history, so the work directly keeps decades of research available to researchers, families and schools. Advisory rather than full-time, and you can contribute from anywhere.

Commitment:

Consultant basis

Where:

Remote / not stated

Mechanics, pilots and museum representatives

The museum keeps a fleet of historic warbirds airworthy and on display, and it is always looking for people willing to donate their time as mechanics, pilots or museum representatives to help maintain them. If you have aviation skills, or simply enjoy talking to visitors about these aircraft and the people who flew them, the museum would like to hear from you. Contact Jack Hunter directly.

Commitment:

Ongoing

Where:

St. George Regional Airport

Teach a life skills class

Teach a life skills class to young people at Youth Futures, the practical knowledge a teenager leaving an unstable home has usually missed, such as budgeting, cooking, job readiness or tenancy basics. It suits someone with relevant professional or lived expertise who can prepare and deliver a session. Arrange through the Community Outreach Coordinator.

Where:

Youth Futures shelters, including St. George

Comfort Therapy Volunteer (massage, healing touch, music, pet therapy)

Zion's Way lists therapeutic services among its volunteer roles, massage, healing touch, music and pet therapy, offered to hospice patients who would otherwise have no access to them. If you carry one of these skills or a certified therapy animal, the volunteer coordinator can talk through how it fits alongside the standard hospice volunteer training.

Where:

Patients' homes and care settings, Washington County