Fostering Coordinator

Final date to receive applications: 23 January 2026

Department: Rehoming

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Ballymena

Compensation: £24,907 per year + benefits

Are you passionate about dog welfare and building supportive communities?

As a Fostering Coordinator, you’ll play a vital role in helping dogs thrive outside the kennel environment, recruiting and supporting volunteer foster carers, ensuring high standards of care, and working closely with adopters to find permanent homes.

As a Fostering Coordinator, you will:

• recruit, assess, and induct new foster carers, promoting the scheme through events, conversations, and collaboration with colleagues across Dogs Trust,
• support foster carers with regular check-ins, arrange veterinary appointments, and provide access to behaviour or training support when needed,
• deliver training to foster carers with input from the Learning and Development and Welfare teams, either one-to-one or through organised group sessions,
• identify and place suitable dogs into foster care, including temporary placements for long-stay dogs needing respite from kennels, and carry out necessary intake assessments,
• promote dogs in foster or Home Stay settings by preparing profiles, contacting potential adopters, organising matching meetings, and completing all adoption paperwork.

Interviews for this role are provisionally scheduled for Monday 2nd February 2026 at our rehoming centre in Ballymena.

With experience of working with volunteers and of handling and rehoming dogs, you will have excellent communication and organisational skills, and ability to support fosterers as they provide temporary care to our dogs. You'll need an understanding of best practice in interacting with volunteer fosterers, combined with fantastic customer service skills.