Horse Care and Welfare Programme Officer

What you’ll be doing:

• Coordinating Horse Care & Welfare programmes and community engagement activities

• Planning and delivering Horse Health Days, Healthcare & Education Clinics and other welfare initiatives

• Driving continuous improvement through data, insight and innovation

• Building partnerships with volunteers, professionals, communities and external organisations

• Supporting fundraising, income generation and impact reporting activities

• Maintaining effective systems, processes and programme administration

What you won’t be doing:

• Managing frontline welfare concerns or undertaking welfare investigations

• Delivering activity for activity's sake, you'll help demonstrate meaningful welfare outcomes and impact

• Focusing solely on administration, you'll play an active role in shaping, improving and evaluating welfare programmes

• Working in a purely office-based role, you'll regularly engage with colleagues, volunteers, partners and at events across the UK

• Keeping strictly 9-5 hours, occasional evenings, weekends and overnight stays will be required

This is a great role for you if:

• You have strong equine knowledge and are passionate about improving horse welfare through education and engagement

• You enjoy coordinating projects, events and community-based activities, bringing people together to achieve shared goals

• You are organised, proactive and comfortable managing multiple priorities while using data and feedback to drive improvements

• You are a confident communicator who enjoys building relationships with volunteers, communities, professionals and partners

• You are passionate about equine welfare and want to work in an organisation that supports you to bring your full, authentic self to work and works really hard to be a beacon of inclusion in the equestrian sector.

We’re excited that you’re thinking about applying to British Horse Society. To help you make the strongest impression, here are a few friendly tips:

• AI tools can be handy, but they don’t always hit the mark when it comes to the specific stuff we’re looking for

• We really want to hear your voice — your experiences, your skills and what makes you, well, you!

• If you lean too much on AI-generated content, your application might end up sounding a bit generic — and that could hurt your chances.

So, keep it real, keep it personal and show us what you’re all about. 

How to apply: Please follow the link below to apply for this role.

Safer Recruitment, Equality and Diversity

This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore at conditional offer stage successful applicants will be required to declare: 

• All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions 

For further information on how long it takes for cautions and convictions cautions to become spent, please refer to this guide on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

British Horse Society is committed to achieving equity for all current and prospective employees and doesn’t condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better organisational outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, brings better outcomes for all employees.

We strongly encourage suitably experienced people from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

Only suitable candidates will be contacted directly about this position. We won’t store or process the data of candidates for longer than is necessary for the recruitment process.