Animal Centre Manager

Working hours: 35 hours per week which will be on a rolling rota, including weekends and public holidays. The postholder will be responsible for arranging overnight cover, and be prepared to cover some overnight shifts when required. Are you ready to be part of our journey and make a difference? What a day might look like for you We've added a short summary of what a typical day might look like, but for a full insight please refer to the job description. The Animal Centre Manager role is varied and busy, but also very rewarding, and is critical in ensuring the smooth operation of our centres and positive outcomes for the animals in our care. As an Animal Centre Manager you'll have overall responsibility for the recruitment and management of staff and volunteers, overseeing centre finances, and ensuring the centre's facilities and practices are fit for purpose and meet health and safety standards.

• Have a full manual driving licence (subject to reasonable adjustments where necessary)
• Have budget and financial management experience
• Have a proven line management experience
• Have a proven track record of leading a team through an organisational and transformational change
• Able to manage conflict and problem solve in a pressurised environment
• Be adaptable and resilient to changing priorities and requirements
• Be a strong communicator, adapting to different stakeholders and able influence others
• Experience using SalesForce platforms, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and/or Google Drive applications.
Desirable:
• Veterinary Nursing qualifications
• Knowledge of animal anatomy and behaviour
• HNC/HND or equivalent animal qualification
• NVQ level 2 or equivalent or equivalent qualification
• Animal handling, management and behaviours experience
• Media/comms and fundraising experience
• Equine experience.
  
  Do you want to create a better world for animals? At the RSPCA, we believe all animals deserve kindness and respect. We work for the benefit of every animal - as well as pets, that includes farmed animals, wildlife, and animals used in science.
Choose a career with us and make a difference for every kind. Join us during this exciting time as our organisation and our frontline services are undergoing a transformation change, which focuses on animals' voices in our care. We are looking for a Animal Centre Manager based at Blackberry Farm, which is located in Aylesbury. Our RSPCA Blackberry Farm Animal Centre occupies a stunning 10-acre site overlooking the rural villages of Waddesdon and Quainton in Buckinghamshire. We are just two minutes from the A41 between Aylesbury and Bicester. The centre has 42 rehoming kennels and 34 cat rehoming pens, and a small animal house. We look after and re-home cats, dogs, rabbits and other small domestic animals, at any one time we could be caring for over 180 animals!