Volunteer Team Leader - North London Adoption Centre
Permanent, 20 hours per week
£11,718.49 per annum (starting salary is subject to experience) plus London Weighting and excellent benefits

Cats Protection is the UK’s leading feline welfare charity. We now help around 193,000 cats and kittens through our network of over 250 volunteer-run branches and 36 adoption centres and homing centres.

We are now recruiting a Volunteer Team Leader to join our adoption centre in North London, on a part time, permanent basis. The working days will be determined on a rolling rota basis but you will work on average five days per fortnight, with one weekend in three. Working hours are 09:00 - 18:00 with one hour for lunch. 
 
The main purpose of this role is to promote and co-ordinate volunteering for the centre. This role will require you to develop contacts internally and externally e.g. with volunteers, employees, and the wider Volunteering Department.  The post holder will recruit, train, schedule and support a team of diverse volunteers to enhance the smooth running of the Adoption Centre service in all aspects of its work. Please note a driving licence is essential for this role.

Person Specification:

• You will be highly motivated with previous experience of managing a team of volunteers
• Excellent interpersonal, customer service and organisational skills are essential
• Ideally you will have a background of working within an animal welfare environment (desirable)

Closing Date: 11 October 2019
Interview Date:  22 October or 01 November 2019

To reward you we have a pay scheme which provides the opportunity to progress within your pay band, subject to satisfactory performance. We also offer a range of benefits which include a generous holiday entitlement, a competitive pension offering, a private medical scheme, and a death in service scheme.

Cats Protection is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Surveyor - Homebased
Permanent, part time - 28 hours per week
£44,685.65 per annum plus excellent benefits
Closing date - 7 October 2019
Telephone Interviews - week commencing 14 October

Cats Protection is the UK’s leading feline welfare charity. We now help around 193,000 cats and kittens through our network of over 250 volunteer-run branches and 36 adoption centres and homing centres.

Due to a large and expanding operational and retail property portfolio, an opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic Chartered Surveyor with a solid estates management background and experience of providing professional advice in respect of different property types and tenures.

The work will be extensive and very varied, reflecting the nature of the portfolio. In the region to be covered, the portfolio comprises purpose-built cat adoption and homing centres in South Wales, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, and Dorset; a network of charity shops across the region; and a small amount of residential accommodation occupied by staff or third parties in South Wales, Cornwall, Devon, and Dorset. From time to time surveying input is also required with regard to legacy properties.

This role provides the opportunity for the successful candidate to provide high quality professional surveying support to the operational and retail arms of the organisation and to make a significant difference to the Charity’s work in helping cats. The position would suit a ‘hands-on’ Chartered Surveyor with experience of managing a multi-site portfolio, either ‘in-house’ or for a surveying firm on behalf of clients. Membership of RICS is essential.

This position will be home-based within the subject region and a willingness to travel within the UK (with occasional overnight stays) is essential. A car or essential user car allowance will be provided for this role.

To apply for this position please click the APPLY ONLINE button. Our application process requires you submit a CV and answer screening questions – including explaining your interest and suitability for the role. Unfortunately we cannot accept applications or CVs that are emailed to us directly.

To reward you, we have a pay scheme which provides the opportunity to progress within your pay band, subject to satisfactory performance. We also offer a range of benefits which include a generous holiday entitlement, a competitive pension offering, a private medical scheme, and a death in service scheme. 

Cats Protection is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Job title: Community Neutering Officer
Salary: £28,269.18 per annum (plus a home workers allowance and branded company van)
Location: Homebased covering Scotland
Job type: Permanent
Hours per week: 35
Closing date: 25 September 2019
Interview date: Mid October 2019

We are seeking a committed and enthusiastic individual to join our successful Neutering team as a Community Neutering Officer.

Cats Protection is the UK’s leading feline welfare charity with a nationwide network of centres, volunteer-run branches and charity shops. During 2018 we helped around 184,000 cats and kittens, an average of 500 per day.

Community Neutering makes a real difference to the cats and kittens helping them to lead happier and healthier lives. Our subsidised neutering campaigns provide financial assistance to much loved pets as well as strays and ferals who are not lucky enough to have an owner to care for them. All of our projects have human behaviour change principles embedded within them and this is an important measurement of our work.

As a Community Neutering Officer, you will be involved in helping to deliver the regional neutering projects and initiatives to local communities. This will include working with community and social groups, attending regular community meetings and delivering talks and presentations. You will be recruiting volunteers and supporting them with projects in their communities whilst managing the progress of both individual areas and whole projects. The main focus is raising awareness of the importance of neutering, which is key as part of responsible pet ownership.

You will need to have excellent organisational skills, initiative and the ability to engage with people and communities at all levels. You will be a strong self-starter with a passion for helping cats in need with a positive attitude. You will have experience with working within communities or social enterprises and developing relationships with different types of community groups. An animal science or welfare background is also desirable but not essential. You will need a full UK driving licence.

To apply for this position please click the APPLY ONLINE button. Our application process requires you submit a CV and answer screening questions – including explaining your interest and suitability for the role. Unfortunately we cannot accept applications or CVs that are emailed to us directly.

Area Assistant Shop Manager - Acomb
Zero hours contract
£9.36 per hour (starting salary subject to experience) plus excellent benefits

Cats Protection is the UK’s leading feline welfare charity. We now help around 193,000 cats and kittens through our network of over 250 volunteer-run branches and 36 adoption centres and homing centres.

As Area Assistant Shop Manager for our Acomb, and other local shops including Haxby, you will work on a zero hours contract assisting to cover periods of absence or busy periods in the relevant shops, which may include working weekends when required. You will be required to travel throughout a specified area so a driving licence is essential for this role.

The role will be to assist the Shop Managers in managing all shop activities and together, achieve set targets and maximise financial contribution to the charity.

Key Responsibilities include helping oversee and managing all shop volunteers and other activities in the shop, recruiting, training and managing an effective team of volunteers; being responsible for the day to day running of the shop on days when the Shop Manager is not present, ensuring it meets agreed income and expenditure targets for CP and taking responsibility for the shop’s accounting procedures including cash reconciliation, daily banking and till procedures.

Person Specification:

- We’re looking for an individual who is highly self-motivated, positive and resilient and who has previous retail experience
- A strong communicator with excellent organisational skills
- You will have the ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with a variety of people and be able to work well on own initiative
- Candidates who have previous retail management experience are highly desirable, as are those who have previously worked in the charity retail sector.

Closing Date: 22 September 2019
Interview Date: Mid October 2019

To reward you we have a pay scheme which provides the opportunity to progress within your pay band, subject to satisfactory performance. We also offer a range of benefits which include a generous holiday entitlement, a competitive pension offering, a private medical scheme, and a death in service scheme.

Cats Protection is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.