Volunteer positions
Volunteer Driver
Nelson Centre
Do you enjoy being out on the road and want to make a difference for animals in your community? We’re looking for reliable, safety-conscious volunteers to join our team of drivers and help keep SPCA’s operations moving smoothly across Aotearoa. Volunteer Drivers play an essential role in supporting both our animals and our wider community- ensuring animals, donations, and supplies get where they need to go safely and on time.
What You Could Help With:
- Animal transport - safely transporting animals between centres, veterinary clinics, foster homes, or to and from the community.
- Community & foster transport - delivering supplies, collecting foster animals, or assisting with appointment transport.
- Donation collections - picking up food, goods, or equipment from supermarkets, businesses, or community donors.
- General deliveries & errands - supporting one-off transfers or collections for your local centre or op shop network.
You may choose to focus on one area or assist across several depending on your interests and availability. Volunteers may be required to drive an SPCA vehicle or their own vehicle (subject to centre resource and approval).
What We Are Looking For:
- Must be aged 18 years or older.
- Full, clean, current NZ driver’s licence.
- Safe, confident, and courteous driver with good local area knowledge.
- Reliable, proactive, and able to follow directions independently.
- Physically fit - some lifting, loading, and bending required.
- Good English comprehension.
- Able to drive both manual and automatic vehicles (preferred).
- Experience handling animals or driving vans is an advantage, but full training and support will be provided.
- Able to provide a Ministry of Justice Check.
How to Apply
Click ‘APPLY NOW’ to register your interest, and we’ll be in touch. If you have any questions, please contact the centre on 03 547 7171 or nelson.info@spca.nz, or email volunteer@spca.nz.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Volunteer application
For: Volunteer Driver at Nelson Centre
Thanks for your interest in volunteering with SPCA. Volunteers are a huge part of our team - we couldn’t do what we do without you!
To get started, just fill out the form below. If you need help, please call the team at your local SPCA Centre or op shop.
A few things to note:
- You must be at least 15 to volunteer in our Op Shops or 16 to volunteer at our Centres. If you are younger, please check out our sections on 'Volunteering for Kids', 'Volunteering from Home' or talk to your family about fostering opportunities.
- You may need to provide an up to date Ministry of Justice check during this process, and we'll ask about any medical conditions so we can ensure your safety while volunteering.
- Information collected as part of this application process may also be used for placement screening, administration, health, safety and wellbeing purposes, to communicate with you about your role, and to promote SPCA goods and services that may interest you. Information collected by SPCA will be treated in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 and the SPCA Privacy Statement.
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