Senior Equine Behaviour and Welfare Adviser

Salary: £40,200 - £44,400 per annum
Location: Central London [with some overseas travel]
Benefits: 25 days holiday, contributory pension, life assurance and more
Contract type: Permanent
Job reference: ID1203

The Role

At an exciting time of growth for the Animal Welfare and Research team at the Brooke we are looking for an individual to provide management and strategic direction to a small team of dedicated welfare specialists. The Senior Equine Behaviour and Welfare Adviser will ensure that high quality welfare and behaviour knowledge, training and capacity building is provided to Brooke’s Overseas Programmes as well as UK staff. This challenging role will play a key role in integrating principles of animal welfare, equine behaviour, humane handling and compassion building into all aspects of working with horses, mules and donkeys and the communities that depend on them. This will include some travel to support staff in overseas programmes.

Criteria

You will possess a higher degree (Masters or PhD) in Animal Welfare Science or a closely related discipline with experience of working with a variety of equids and an understanding of current methods of assessing animal welfare. In order to excel in this post you will need to have excellent inter-personal skills including sensitivity to a range of cultures and conditions. We are looking for someone who can inspire others to improve animal welfare and who can adapt animal welfare concepts to the varied challenging contexts in the countries where we work. The ability to speak one of the following languages is desirable: Amharic, Arabic, French, Hindi, Spanish or Urdu.

Closing Date: 30 May 2012 (4pm)

Interviews to be held between 11th and 13th June

To Apply

For further information including the job description and person specification, please download and complete an application form found on the right hand side of this page.
Completed application forms should be returned to recruit@thebrooke.org or to Human Resources, The Brooke, 30 Farringdon Street, London EC4A 4HH.
Please do not send CVs as they will not be considered.

The Brooke strives to promote equality of opportunity.