Animal Jobs

Advanced Trainer

Location: National Training Centre, Osgathorpe, Leicestershire
Salary: £23,655 - £25,133 (depending on experience)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Department: Operations
Job Type: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent

If you are a talented dog trainer/behaviourist looking to utilise your skills within the charity sector, this could be the role for you.

Canine Partners' mission is to change the lives of disabled people using expertly trained dogs to improve physical, emotional and social wellbeing.

To help us create amazing partnerships, we need amazing people. Canine Partners has an exciting opportunity for a Dog Trainer to join our Advanced Training team.

This is an incredible role at a prominent assistance dog charity where your role will be at the heart of our essential work that transforms lives every day.

What you will do:

As an Advanced Dog Trainer, you will play an integral role in creating partnerships by assessing, training, and placing assistance dogs to our beneficiaries. Using your outstanding dog training knowledge and skill you will build on the basic obedience skills learned by our dogs in their puppy homes to turn into life changing skills such as touching buttons, tugging open doors, retrieving dropped items, and more.

You will match dogs to their new partner and support the training and development of the partnership either on-site at our training centre or in the homes of our beneficiaries.

What we're looking for:

- Strong knowledge of dog training and behaviour
- Excellent ability to train and handle dogs
- Good understanding of dog care and welfare
- Ability to plan and carry out training sessions
- Strong communication skills across all levels
- Training, teaching or coaching skills
- Good problem solving skills
- Good administration and record keeping skills
- Good ICT skills (MS Office, internet, email)
- Knowledge or experience of working with people with disabilities (D)

You will pride yourself on your calm and flexible approach and ability to be compassionate and sensitive with everyone you work with. You will be a strong team player alongside being able to work on your own initiative.

Most importantly, you will be passionate about the transformative impact that our assistance dogs provide to our beneficiaries.

We can offer you:

- Generous annual leave allowance
- Salary exchange ('smart') pension scheme
- Charity sick pay
- Life assurance
- Wellbeing portal
- Free on-site parking
- Dog friendly offices

This role benefits from working at our purpose-built training centre in the rural countryside of Osgathorpe, Leicestershire. There will be regular travel for this role to complete key tasks, therefore it is essential that you have a full driving licence or the ability to transport yourself in line with the requirements for the posts.

If this sounds like the perfect role for you, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please apply online with a CV together with a cover letter than demonstrates your suitability for the role.

1st interview date: Week commencing 22nd July 2024, online.
2nd interview date: Week commencing 29th July 2024, onsite at our National Training Centre, Osgathorpe, Leicestershire.

We recognise the benefit of diverse experiences, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are a disability confident committed employer.

REF-214832

Fundraising Manager - Partnership Giving (High-Value Relationships)

Elevate Your Career and Make a Lasting Impact on Animal Welfare

Are you passionate about protecting animals and securing their well-being? World Animal Protection, a global leader in animal welfare with over 70 years of experience, is seeking an exceptional Fundraising Manager - Partnership Giving to join our team in London.

In this crucial role, you'll have the opportunity to drive substantial income streams by cultivating and nurturing relationships with high-net-worth individuals, trust funders, and corporations. Your exceptional interpersonal and communication skills will be invaluable as you develop tailored engagement strategies and foster long-lasting partnerships.

What We Offer:

• Salary range: £37,888 - £48,713
• Generous pension scheme with up to 6% employer contribution
• 24 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays and 3 days around New Year
• Work from anywhere for 30 days a year
• Opportunities for professional growth and career development
• Collaborative and inclusive team culture
• The chance to make a tangible difference in the lives of animals worldwide

Your Responsibilities:

• Proactively identify and engage new high-value donors through networking, research, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Develop personalised engagement plans, including face-to-face meetings, exclusive events, and regular updates.
• Utilise our CRM system (RE NXT) to ensure accurate donor data management and reporting.
• Create compelling proposals, tailored presentations, and engaging materials to captivate prospective donors.
• Represent World Animal Protection at external events, conferences, and meetings.
• Foster strong relationships with internal teams, particularly Communications and Campaigns, to enhance donor engagement.
• Ensure compliance with ethical fundraising practices and data protection regulations.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Significant experience in managing high-value relationships and fundraising initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Proven ability to craft effective fundraising proposals and reports.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and organisational skills.
• Comfortable working in a global, multicultural environment.
• A high degree of emotional intelligence and sensitivity to donor needs.

Join our Mission to End Animal Cruelty and Suffering

At World Animal Protection, we are driven by a powerful vision: a world where animals live free from cruelty and suffering. Our global food system strategy aims to end factory farming and create a humane and sustainable food system that puts animals first.

If you share our passion for protecting animals and are ready to make a meaningful difference, we want to hear from you. Apply now and become part of a dedicated team working towards a compassionate future for all creatures.

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.

The Talent Set are delighted to be working with an excellent animal charity to find their Creative Services Lead. This role is a 12-month FTC.

The charity offers a flexible working environment, with options to work remotely or hybrid from either their London or Godmanchester office.

The creative services lead is an instrumental role in our Brand and Marketing team, working with colleagues across the organisation to deliver best in class, inclusive creative work, championing efficiency and collaboration. They will ensure the timely delivery of strategic brand and marketing projects, which will have the biggest impact in supporting the charity to achieve our vision of a world where all pets are well cared for in loving homes for life. They are responsible for reviewing briefs, scheduling and resourcing effectively, developing forecasting tools for allocating creative resource, and ensuring the correct technical skillset is assigned to each project.

Key Responsibilities:

· Ensure all stages of projects from conception to completion are managed and met according to the brief, budget, resource and deadline deliverables.

· Provide guidance to executive leadership team on the sequencing, alignment and governance of multiple organisational wide projects optimising budget, time and resources.

· Support teams to refine briefs as needed, review against the charities priorities and objectives.

· Work closely with creative and content, marketing, comms and digital teams to book the relevant resource (internal and external) and skillsets to deliver against each brief.

· Work with existing systems to log projects, project history, manage schedules and client expectations, including ensuring all work is approved by the brand and creative content manager.

· Monitor resource and projects across teams, conduct cost/benefit analysis and share regular reports with senior leaders on key team metrics with actionable recommendations for future projects.

· Make recommendations and implement changes to ways of working to improve efficiency and creative output.

· Work across multiple projects, ensuring all parties are informed of progress and challenges.

· Build relationships with stakeholders in order to understand their requirements and use this effectively to plan multiple work-streams and projects, balancing creative needs and Woodgreen’s objectives.

· Provide leadership to teams, sharing skills and expertise and identify and implement opportunities for upskilling.

· Manage spend across all external suppliers, ensuring cost efficiency and value for money, regularly reporting on budgets and forecasting.

· Manage the print production process, including writing print specs, sourcing competitive quotes, managing a roster of suppliers and keeping abreast of the latest print technologies.

Person Specification:

· Extensive proven experience of project and account management.

· Substantial experience of working in a team that works across multichannel projects varying in size and scale.

· Significant experience working in a creative or brand-based environment.

· Substantial experience of the creative process from start to finish.

· Substantial experience of managing external relationships specifically with agencies, freelancers and production companies.

· Advanced knowledge of all marketing channels, both on and offline.

· Ability to manage multiple project deliverables and competing priorities.

· Managing projects from exploring the full potential of each brief through the creative process to completion including post project evaluation.

· Communicate matters of logistics and scheduling to all stakeholders clearly, ensuring all areas of remit/responsibility are understood and agreed.

To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application.

We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.

Location: Home based with travel throughout the South East
Job Type: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: c.£30,000
Benefits: Generous annual leave allowance, salary exchange pension scheme, life assurance, occupational sick pay, dog friendly offices.

Closing date: 07-07-2024

Are you a talented fundraiser who is motivated by bringing communities together to help change lives? This could be the role for you!

Canine Partners' mission is to change the lives of disabled people using expertly trained dogs to improve physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.

To help us create amazing partnerships, we need amazing people. Canine Partners has an exciting opportunity for a Community Engagement Officer to join our dedicated Fundraising team.

This is an incredible role at a prominent assistance dog charity where your role will be a part of our essential work that transforms lives every day.

What you will do:

A vital role in our Fundraising team, you will be working with individuals, organisations, schools, and small businesses in the local areas across the southern region to raise income and awareness for the charity. You will recruit, manage, and inspire fundraising volunteers to support us to raise much-needed funds. You will be passionate about stewarding existing relationships and cultivating new ones, ensuring an outstanding donor experience. Taking a proactive approach will be key to showcasing our work and charitable goals.

What we are looking for:

• Proven experience of effectively managing relationships across a range of audiences.
• Experience of planning and running events.
• Ability to create and support the development of new campaigns, initiatives and strategic plans.
• Ability to manage a varied workload with initiative to prioritise.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and public speaking skills with the ability to engage and inspire.
• Experience of creating, forecasting, and monitoring budgets to deliver against income and expenditure targets.
• Ability to write reports and evaluations using data.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience in recording and maintaining information on a database.
• Ideally, you will have experience in community fundraising or events management, with a successful track record in raising and securing income from a diverse range of funding streams. Experience of using Salesforce, supervising/managing people and up to date knowledge of fundraising regulations/legislation will be advantageous but not essential.
• Most importantly, you will be passionate about the transformative impact that our assistance dogs provide to our beneficiaries.

We can offer you:

• Generous annual leave allowance.
• Salary exchange ('smart') pension scheme.
• Charity sick pay.
• Life assurance scheme.
• Wellbeing portal.

This role benefits from home-based working; regular travel throughout the southern region is essential to meet with our donors, beneficiaries, colleagues and other stakeholders. You must have a full UK driving licence and ability to travel in line with the requirements of the role (where applicable business travel will be claimable expenses). We will provide a laptop and mobile phone for use in the role.

If this sounds like the perfect role for you, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please apply online with a comprehensive CV and supporting statement explaining how you believe you match the requirements of the role.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this advert ahead of the closing date should we find a suitable candidate before this date. Please be assured that we contact all of our candidates on the outcome of their application, this may take longer if we receive high volumes of applications.

1st Interview: 12th July 2024, online.
2nd Interview: 19th July 2024, in person (location tbc).

We recognise the benefit of diverse experiences, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are a disability confident committed employer.

You may also have experience in the following:, Engagement Support Specialist, Donor Relations Representative, Supporter Care Officer, Community Engagement Associate, Fundraising Support Executive, Donor Engagement Specialist, Supporter Liaison Officer, Client Experience Associate, Donor Interaction Coordinator, Fundraising Support Assistant, Community Outreach Officer, Supporter Relationship Coordinator, Engagement and Support Assistant, etc.

REF-214 698

Head of Operations

We are seeking an experienced Head of Centre Operations to work for one of the UK’s top animal welfare charities based in Watford, committed to improving the lives of the UK’s pets and striving to give every animal the best chance of finding a new home.

Position: Head of Centre Operations

Location: Watford/Hybrid

Contract: Full time, 35 hours per week, Permanent

Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 per annum depending on experience, plus £5,000 car allowance

Benefits: 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), contributory pension scheme, access to free 24/7 support service including legal, financial, emotional, and medical advice.

Closing Date: 5th July, 2024

About the role:

The Head of Centre Operations is responsible for delivering the Trust’s strategic aims through a team of over ninety employees, as well as a significant number of volunteers across the organisations five rescue and re-homing centres and remote supporter groups.

This is a ‘hands-on’ role, the Head of Operations will plan, lead and consistently deliver in the charity’s rescue, rehoming and preventative work; maintaining high standards of animal welfare and customer service at all times.

About you:

The ideal person for this role will have a strong track record of management and leading teams across multiple site locations, you will also have experience in the following:

• A strong focus on coaching and a history of employee development
• An excellent verbal and written communicator
• Confident in using IT in the workplace, particularly Microsoft word, excel and presentations
• Experience in managing diverse operations across multi-site locations.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple projects and workflows simultaneously
• The ability to influence organisational strategy as part of the senior team
• An empathy with animal welfare
• A driving license

Although not essential, experience within the animal welfare sector would be beneficial for this role.

Please include your CV and a cover letter and tell us why you want to work for us and what you will bring to the role.

Other roles you may have experience with could include Director of Operations, Operations Director, Operations Manager, Head of Operations, Regional Operations Director, Multi-site Manager, Multi-site Director, Senior Operations Manager, and Senior Operations Director. #INDNFP

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

Position title: Finance Manager

Reports to: Chief Finance Officer (CFO)

Salary: £38,000 pa (rising to £40,000 upon successful completion of a 6-month probation period)

Hours: Full time - 35 hours per week (with a possibility to negotiate some flexibility)

Location: Hybrid working between the DSWF Shalford Office, GU4 8JU (2 days per week), home (3 days per week) and occasionally London

Annual Leave: 25 days per annum. Bank Holidays also provided, and an additional holiday entitlement will be given at DSWF’s discretion around Christmas and New Year

Other Benefits: Auto-enrolment Pension Scheme. Employee Assistance Programme provided.

The Role:

DSWF is a wildlife conservation charity operating across Africa and Asia to end the drivers of wildlife crime and protect endangered species in their natural habitat. In 2024, the Foundation is still family-run and is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our highly motivated and passionate team as Finance Manager. DSWF is an equal opportunities employer and strives to offer a fulfilling and flexible workplace. This role is ideal for someone who wants to continue to develop their financial skills in the not-for-profit sector and offers great opportunities for personal development and ongoing growth within the organisation.

The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant and have excellent skills in financial systems and processing. They will have an analytical mindset and be an effective problem-solver and committed team player. They will manage the day-to-day income and expenditure of the charity and its subsidiary trading company, provide financial support, reports and analysis across the organisation, while working with the CFO to produce the monthly management accounts and annual budget, be instrumental in the annual audit and provide financial reports for the senior management team and trustees.

The role will report to the CFO and work closely with the Senior Management Team to support the delivery of DSWF’s broad range of objectives across our Conservation, Education and Art strategic pillars. DSWF is a small organisation with a large portfolio of activities, and as such, this is a broad role that will work across the board with all team members to ensure an organised and efficient finance function.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Financial Administration

· Maintain all financial records and data accurately and within agreed systems outlined in the DSWF Financial Handbook’s processes and controls

· Maintain up to date records on the finance system (Sage 50)

· Monitor and record income from all sources and ensure accurate and timely recording, including fund allocations

· With the fundraising team, ensure accurate and timely recording of income into the Raiser’s Edge CRM

· Daily reconciliation of all bank, control and intercompany accounts to Sage

· Banking of cheques and petty cash control in a timely manner

· Maintain the purchase ledger including receipt of invoices and expense claims, authorisations, cost coding and posting into the Sage system

· Process all bank payments, card payments and direct debits

· With the CFO, provide support to the Conservation team in analysing project financial reports, making grant payments and preparing financial reports for donors

· Liaise with the Art team over the production of sales invoices for the subsidiary Trading company as well as processing of e-commerce and offline sales

· Provide support to the fundraising team in the financial elements of event planning (including hardware and processes for receiving income at events) and producing full financial reconciliations and ROI reporting at the conclusion of each event

· With the CFO, provide support to the fundraising team in producing budgets for applications for funding

· Manage the negotiation of card and transaction fees with payment providers

· Complete month end accounts checklist and relevant journals to trial balance

· With the CFO, prepare monthly management accounts for SMT and staff

· Prepare and submit quarterly VAT returns for the charity (using partial exemption principles) and the trading subsidiary

· Liaise with the fundraising team to ensure gift aid is maximised for every income stream and produce and submit gift aid claims on a monthly basis

Budget Management

· Support the preparation of the annual income and expenditure budgets

· Ensure income and costs are allocated correctly per agreed budget and highlight areas of variance

Annual Audit

· Preparation of papers for annual audit in conjunction with the CFO

· During audit be the main contact for collating all documentation and samples requested by auditors

Financial control systems

· Ensure financial policies and processes are fit for purpose, developing new ones where appropriate and deriving and implementing improvements to existing ones

Person Specification:

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Qualifications

Essential

· AAT qualified or qualified by significant experience

· Strong Microsoft Excel skills

· A good level of general education including a high standard in English and Maths

Strongly Desirable

· ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified or part qualified

Skills and experience

Essential

· Accounts software experience

· Bookkeeping up to trial balance

· Experience of small – medium business finance

· To be able to work under pressure with high volumes of work with tight deadlines

· Ability to communicate efficiently complex financial information to non-finance managers and trustees

· To maintain confidentiality and the protection of data at all times

Strongly Desirable

· Sage accounts software experience

· CRM database experience

· Working knowledge of charity financial processes and controls

· Knowledge of charity finance reporting and practices (SORP)

· Preparation of financial statements

How to apply:

There is no immediate closing date for applications for this role, but we are hoping to hire by 16 September 2024 at the latest to facilitate a proper handover and will begin reviewing CVs as soon as they are received so please do not wait to apply.

Please apply online with your CV and a Covering Letter (Covering Letter to be no more than 2x A4 pages explaining why you wish to work for DSWF and why you are appropriate for the role).

Key role as a Head Office Administrator for a busy animal charity that would suit someone who wants to be involved and deliver excellent customer support.  No 2 days are the same and multi tasking with varied responsibilites will be your middle names. This role requires someone with excellent people skills who is a quick learner and can work effectively alone alongside being organised and efficient.

First point of contact and a professional presence for our clients on the telephone and by email, you need to be understanding, patient and have empathy.

A passion for animals and respect for their welfare needs to be backed up by adhering to our aims and objectives.  We would not employ anyone that is involved in animal blood sports or animal breeding.

Basic accounting and finance is desirable and a minimum of 3 years in an office environment with charity experience is also desirable.