Web Designer for Dog Rescue

Path of Hope Rescue is seeking a part time Volunteer Web Designer to design, update, and maintain our website. This fully remote role supports adopters, donors, and volunteers by keeping information clear, accessible, and easy to navigate from Spokane, Washington.

Role Overview

This position is 5 hours per week with a flexible schedule. Working remotely, you will help ensure the rescue’s online presence reflects Path of Hope Rescue’s identity and communicates the mission effectively. Since the organization does not have a kennel or building location, the website is the primary way people connect with the rescue and learn how to adopt, foster, volunteer, donate, and stay informed.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain clean, on-brand page layouts and visual elements aligned with Path of Hope Rescue identity.
• Design or refresh key pages, including home, adopt, volunteer, donate, events, and about.
• Ensure mobile responsiveness and consistent presentation across devices.
• Select, optimize, and place images and graphics to support storytelling and calls to action.
• Implement requested content updates such as text, photos, forms, and buttons from other packs and leadership.
• Improve navigation, clarity of calls to action, and overall ease of use for visitors.
• Support accessibility best practices, including readable text, alt text, contrast, and keyboard navigation where possible.
• Collaborate with content owners to keep details accurate and current.
• Perform routine checks for broken links, outdated content, and visual or layout issues.
• Optimize page load speed and image sizes where practical.
• Document design decisions, page structure, and simple how-tos for other volunteers.
• Respond to design and website-related requests in a timely manner.
• Recommend improvements intended to increase engagement, adoptions, volunteer sign-ups, and donations.

Role Mission and Why the Website Matters

Path of Hope Rescue is a foster-based rescue with no kennel facility or building. The website is the only place where adopters, donors, and volunteers can connect directly with the organization. This role designs, updates, and maintains the site to ensure the mission is communicated clearly, actions are straightforward, and the experience is professional, welcoming, and accessible.

Primary Focus Areas

Website Design & Visual Identity: maintain on-brand layouts, refresh core pages, ensure mobile consistency, and use optimized visuals for storytelling and conversion.

Content Integration & User Experience: update requested content, strengthen navigation and calls to action, support accessibility practices, and coordinate with content owners to keep information accurate.

Maintenance, Performance & Support: check for broken links and outdated material, optimize performance through faster pages and appropriately sized images, document changes for other volunteers, address requests promptly, and recommend improvements tied to adoption and sign-ups.

Requirements

• Self motivated.
• Ability to communicate remotely with excellent written communication skills.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to a non technical audience.
• Graphic Design utilizing the organization’s current brand tone and voice.
• Willing to review the current site critically and recommend improvements based on UX/UI and user data.

Needed Skills

• Self motivated.
• Strong written communication for remote coordination.
• Capacity to translate technical concepts for non technical audiences.
• Graphic design work aligned with current brand tone and voice.
• Analytical approach to UX/UI and user data when evaluating the existing site.

Culture and Mission

Mission: Path of Hope Rescue saves pregnant dogs and puppies from high kill shelters in the Southern United States.

Approach: The Spokane, Washington based rescue works to decrease the euthanasia rate of high risk dogs by transporting pregnant dogs and puppies to the Pacific Northwest to find adoptive homes. The rescue is 100% foster based and does not operate a kennel or building location.

Community and values: The organization emphasizes Transparency, Community, and the Golden Rule. Path of Hope Rescue is freedom loving, supports hard work and personal responsibility, and is focused on building a positive community one dog and one person at a time.

Funding context: The rescue does not have NGO status and does not take government funding. It is 100% funded by small donors and its adoption program, with a few small private grants.