Jobs & careers at Raystede - Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare

Animal Care Assistant - Equine and Livestock

Location:Based at our Centre for Animal Welfare, Ringmer, East Sussex
Time of Day:22.5 hours a week, 2 full days (or 3 shorter days) and alternate weekends
Closing Date:April 7 2025

Animal Care Assistant - Equine and Livestock

Permanent part-time 22.5 hours a week, 2 full days (or 3 shorter days) and alternate weekends

Salary £22,874 per annum(FTE) **Pay Award Pending**

Annual Leave 26 days excluding bank holidays (FTE)

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Main Purpose of the Role

To admit, care for, rehabilitate and, where appropriate, rehome unwanted and stray equines and livestock.
To provide the highest standards of animal care and welfare for the animals.
To work as part of a team delivering sector leading customer service, answering queries, and matching animals to adopters to ensure successful rehoming.
To educate potential new owners and the general public in the care and welfare of their animals.
To promote Raystede services and maximise adoption opportunities.

Please see Job Description for detailed information including: Key Tasks, Key Working Relationships, Scope and Accountability and Person Specification

Please apply online.

Closing date: 07 April 2025

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Animal Care Assistant Equine Job Description

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Cook

Location:Based at our Centre for Animal Welfare, Ringmer, East Sussex
Time of Day:Sociable daytime hours only - full or part-time considered
Closing Date:March 31 2025

If you’re passionate about providing great food, service with a smile and making a real difference, we want to hear from you!

We are looking for a Cook to join our Raystede Café Team - be part of Raystede's recipe for success!

Full or part-time considered, earliest start 8am - latest finish 4:30 pm

Salary: £22,874 per annum FTE (subject to review in April)

Annual Leave: 26 days excluding bank holidays FTE

Find out more and meet the Team at our Drop Ins:
Tuesday 11 and Thursday 13 March, 9-11am and 3-5pm

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The café opens 10am to 3:30pm 7 days a week and is a busy, vibrant place, offering a great selection of delicious, home-cooked food, all freshly cooked to order.

Breakfast, lunches, tasty snacks, indulgent selection of cakes, tea, coffee, soft drinks, smoothies and much more! Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and other dietary requirements catered for.

Friendly service in a vibrant atmosphere Accessible and wheelchair-friendly Dogs welcome

Indoor and outdoor seating Takeaway service Accessible toilet and baby-changing facilities

Every penny of our profits go directly into helping animals in our care.

Main Purpose of the role:

To operate the kitchen in an efficient and effective way to agreed standards. Support and liaise with the Manager to maintain consistently high standards throughout the café and kitchen, including food preparation, cleaning and H & S. To maximise margins and produce varied, profitable and time-efficient menu while also making as much on site as possible. To be fully aware of all allergens and dietary requirements and produce a menu reflective of this.

Be positive about future change, be aware of the need to be conscious of using resources at Raystede and contribute to a one team feel at Raystede.

Please see Job Description for detailed information including: Key Tasks, Key Working Relationships, Scope and Accountability and Person Specification

Closing date 31 March 2025

Please apply online

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Cook Job Description

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Major Donor Fundraiser

Location:Based at our Centre for Animal Welfare, Ringmer, East Sussex
Time of Day:Full time
Closing Date:December 19 2024

Major Donor Fundraiser

Permanent, full-time

Salary: circa £30k full time, depending on experience

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Raystede’s Major Donor Fundraiser builds relationships with individuals who can make large gifts to support Raystede’s mission. This people-focused role involves extensive background work, research, meeting donors, and planning and delivering solicitation events.

It is often a role experienced fundraisers progress to but will suit a person with the right transferable skills. You may have experience of major donors in another fundraising role, or perhaps you’re an animal-loving fundraiser, sales or business development professional with a strong track record of understanding clients and listening to their motivations.

You need to be an effective and inspiring relationship builder, well organised, an excellent communicator, attentive to detail, and able to think on your feet. A love of animals, a passion for animal welfare, and an understanding of the special human-animal bond would be highly desirable for this role.

It is an exciting time to join the fundraising team at Raystede as we enter our third year of building our partnerships programme. You will work closely with the Corporate and Trusts Fundraisers, as well as the wider team, including the Community and Individual Giving teams.

You will also be working closely with our animal care teams on animal welfare related projects as well as our estate teams, trustees and senior management team.

We are growing our income generation to meet the challenges on behalf of the animals in our care who do not have a voice of heir own. The role of Major Donor Fundraiser is crucial to ensuring our supporters are engaged deeply with our cause, through strong stewardship and cultivation activity.

The Major Giving programme is well underway, and you will be supported to deliver excellent stewardship and design a personal stewardship programme. Reporting to the Head of Fundraising, you will have autonomy, be encouraged to take an innovative approach to stewardship and be supported to continue your professional development.

We would love to hear from you if you:

Are an experienced fundraiser or account manager with excellent relationship development skills.
Can inspire and influence supporters to deepen relationships.
Can work with discretion, tact and sensitivity.
Have excellent networking skills, able to network at the highest level and work closely with our CEO, Trustees and Senior Management Team.
Have good IT skills, including CRM databases and MS Office applications.
Want to make a real, tangible impact to the lives of animals.
Have the passion and drive to go the extra mile, keeping excellent donor care and animal welfare at the heart of everything you do.

About Raystede

Raystede is a charity that aims to give animals a better life through rehoming, rehabilitation and sanctuary, and give people the support and knowledge they need to treat animals with care and respect. Raystede is Sussex’s biggest animal welfare charity, with nearly 70 years’ experience of caring for and rehoming animals. Uniquely, we care for a huge range of animals - from dogs, cats and donkeys to rabbits, parrots and alpacas. Our experience, expertise and partnerships enable us to deliver an exceptional quality of care for the animals we help. Many of the animals have been neglected, abused or exploited. Raystede helps most of the animals find new homes but also provides life-long sanctuary for elderly horses and other animals that cannot be rehomed. Raystede provides love and safety to those animals that would have nowhere else to go.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Wendy Bardsley, wbardsley@raystede.org to arrange a call.

Closing date for applications is 19 December 2024, however interviews are being conducted on a rolling basis, so please apply without delay to avoid disappointment.

Please apply online.

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Major Donor Job Description 2024

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Veterinary Nurse

Location:Based at our Centre for Animal Welfare, Ringmer, East Sussex
Time of Day:Part-time, 3 days a week, Monday and Thursday- third day to be agreed
Closing Date:December 4 2024

Veterinary Nurse

Permanent part-time contract, 3 days a week Monday and Thursday - third day to be agreed

Annual salary £18,345 24 hours a week (FTE £30,574)

Annual leave 16 days excluding Bank Holidays (FTE 26 days excluding Bank Holidays)

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“Raystede is a unique, forward-thinking multi-species animal charity that has an exciting opportunity for a new Veterinary Nurse. This role will support Raystede in it's aims to give animals a better life through rehoming, rehabilitation and sanctuary, and give people the support and knowledge they need to treat animals with care and respect. With passionate teams, a wide variety of animals, high welfare standards, and a drive to find as many animals as possible new homes, this is a fantastic opportunity not to be missed.

As a Veterinary Nurse you will be expected to support Raystede’s clinical work in our on-site veterinary surgery and assist with the day to day running of the practice. You will build close working relationships with our expert animal care teams, and also be involved with Raystede more widely, as we work to assist as many animals as possible.

The client base is primarily internal, supporting the animals that we accept for rehoming or that live with us in sanctuary. Most interaction with animals not owned by Raystede will be with animals rehomed by us that need to return for agreed procedures or treatments, as part of our veterinary community days, or on occasions, where we agree to provide emergency treatment that cannot be supported elsewhere. You will also be part of supporting animals being cared for on our Break Away scheme where we find temporary foster homes for animals belonging to people fleeing domestic abuse, or unable to find care for them due to short term hospital stays.

The majority of the clinical workload will be in response to the needs of our most commonly rehomed species those being dogs, cats, rabbits, other small animals, and chickens. However, we do also have large numbers of chelonia, exotic birds, and other fowl on site. Experience with the more exotic species is something you will be supported in building, and we also have access to specialist external vets to assist and advise with those animals. Raystede also rehomes equines, sheep, goats, and alpaca which are currently all supported by an external large animal veterinary practice, so experience with those species is not necessary for this role.

Reporting to the Head Veterinary Surgeon a generous CPD budget is offered as development is seen as a key part of Raystede’s culture. At Raystede we live our values of being inspiring, professional, passionate, committed, and caring and compassionate.”

Please visit our website for more information about Raystede

Closing date: 04 December 2024

Interview date: 11 December 2024

Please apply online

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Head of Animal Welfare

Location:Based at our Centre for Animal Welfare, Ringmer, East Sussex
Time of Day:37.5 hours a week, remote and working from home available. Some weekend and evening work will be required.
Closing Date:November 4 2024

Head of Animal Welfare

Full-time 37.5 hours a week worked flexibly within the needs of the business. Some weekend and evening work will be required. Remote/working from home available.

Salary £52k

Annual Leave 26 days per annum plus Bank Holidays

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Our dogs, donkeys, turkeys, terrapins, cats, parrots and rabbits need you!

This is a great opportunity for an ambitious and driven person with experience in the animal welfare sector to join Raystede. We are the animal welfare charity for Sussex. This role is pivotal within our multi-species and complex charity, especially as we are about to put our new strategy into action. Raystede offers good support and development to managers and staff.

You will report to the CEO and work as part of our Senior Management Team to ensure we achieve our strategic aims. You will be responsible for all aspects of animal care, veterinary services, rehoming & surrender, our animal welfare standards and the development of new facilities for animals at Raystede. You will have a great (amazing) team and therefore you need to be a great manager, and be seen as credible from the start, a go-to person and ensure that Raystede is effectively resourced and directed to achieve its aims in regard to animals.

About you

We are looking for someone who is passionate about animal welfare and wants a career move in the sector:

Broad animal welfare experience which supports some or all of the species Raystede seeks to assist.
Able to manage and lead expert managers and develop staff.
Project management skills.
Understands volunteering in the animal welfare sector.
Has been involved in improving or developing facilities for animals
Can work with Trustees and is credible at a high level.
Able to work well and be able to build excellent working relationships in a complicated charity.
Confidence and flair to influence and negotiate where needed with all stakeholders.
A strong networker able to collaborate externally with other organisations and stakeholders.

Please visit our website for more information about Raystede. If you would like a chat with Stephanie Smith, our Chief Executive, about the role, please call 01825 880462 and arrange a suitable time to talk over the phone, meet online or come in for a personal tour. Our outgoing Head of Animal Welfare is also willing to have chats before he leaves Raystede to achieve a smooth handover.

Closing date for applications: 4 November 2024

Interviews will be held on Thursday 14 November 2024

Apply online and send in a covering letter to vacancies@raystede.org

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Trusts Fundraiser

Location:Based at our Centre for Animal Welfare, Ringmer, East Sussex, remote and working from home available
Time of Day:Part Time circa 22.5 hours per week - days and hours to be agreed with successful candidate
Closing Date:November 5 2024

Part-time circa 22.5 hours per week (days and hours to be agreed with successful candidate). Occasional evenings and weekends.

Permanent

Salary circa £30k (FTE) per annum, dependent on experience

Annual leave 26 days (FTE) plus Bank Holidays

Based at our Centre for Animal Welfare, Ringmer, East Sussex, remote and working from home available

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Are you a enthusiastic and self-motivated Fundraiser with the ability to write compelling, high quality applications? Would you like to help give animals a better life?

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated Trusts Fundraiser to contribute significantly to the development of income generation at Raystede. You will expand our existing programme of Trusts support by creating persuasive applications and undertaking effective research, with the aim of securing funding for a variety of core costs and capital projects.

This is an exciting role as you will help our Funders to engage deeply with our work, and the lives of the animals in our care, as you present tailored cases for support and gratifying evaluations.

An excellent storyteller with a keen eye for detail, you will be able to interpret financial data and funding criteria, as well as strategically plan for existing and future funding needs. You may have experience of Trusts in another fundraising role, or perhaps you’re also an animal-loving fundraiser, or someone who researches, complies and writes reports professionally.

You will also be responsible for setting up a stewardship plan for Trust Supporters and building and maintaining relationships over the phone, through written communications, and on-site or at events. You will be supported in delivering excellent stewardship.

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising, you will have autonomy to plan your time and manage and grow the Trusts & Foundations pipeline. You will be encouraged to take an innovative approach to stewardship and be supported to continue your professional development.

We would love to hear from you if you:

Are organised and proactive with the ability to prioritise multiple projects strategically
Have inspirational and concise report-writing skills
Have strong research abilities and excellent record-keeping
Can network and build relationships at a senior level, internally and externally
Have good IT skills, including CRM databases and MS Office applications

Want to make a real, tangible impact to the lives of animals
Have the passion and drive to go the extra mile, keeping excellent donor care and animal welfare at the heart of everything you do

Closing date : 05 November 2024. However, interviews are being conducted on a rolling basis, so please apply without delay to avoid disappointment.

Apply online and send a covering letter to vacancies@raystede.org

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Trusts Fundraiser JD OCT24

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PA to Chief Executive

Location:Based at our Animal Welfare Centre, Ringer, East Sussex, with flexible hours and hybrid working available.
Time of Day:Minimum of 22.5 hours per week. Days/hours may be planned flexibly by arrangement and in line with work requirements.
Closing Date:June 3 2024

PA to Chief Executive

Salary: £26,481 (FTE) pro rata per annum (£13.58 per hour)

Part time: Minimum 22.5 hours per week. Days/hours may be planned flexibly by arrangement and in line with work requirements. Attendance at 12 Trustee Board or Committee meetings per year - these are usually held in person from 4pm - 6pm

Annual Leave 26 days (FTE) excluding Bank Holidays pro rata

This is a great time to join the Team at Raystede, a much-loved charity helping injured and unwanted animals in need.

This role supports and works closely with the CEO, liaising extensively between the Trustees, Senior Managers and the CEO to ensure that Board meetings run smoothly and supporting the governance of the charity.

What you’ll be doing!

Main point of contact for all enquiries, phone calls, emails and requests to the CEO or Trustees
Managing CEO diary
Managing the calendar of governance meetings, arranging and attending all Board meetings, writing and preparing minutes, distributing all necessary paperwork
Organising and supporting internal meetings
Supporting the SMT and individual Trustees as necessary
Ensure a warm welcome and an excellent experience for all Raystede contacts

We would love to hear from you if you:

This is a central and fascinating role within the organisation, for someone who really enjoys organising and making a difference. Please get in touch if you:

Are a good people person who enjoys meeting and building relationships with a range of people
Have excellent written and verbal communication, with very good attention to detail
Demonstrable minute-taking skills
Have strong organisational skills and be able to think on your feet
Relevant experience in a similar role, an understanding of how to work with confidential information
Well organised with sound office skills
Enjoy taking responsibility for making things happen
Want to make a real, tangible impact

If animals and admin are close to your heart, then we want to hear from you!

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds. Apply online by sending your completed application form to vacancies@raystede.org. If you would like a chat about the role, please call the CEO's office on 01825 880462 to arrange a suitable date to talk over the phone or come in for a personal tour.

Closing date – Monday 03 June 2024

Interview Date – Friday 07 June 2024

To apply please download our application form and email it to us at: vacancies@raystede.org

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Fundraising Team Coordinator

Location:Based at our Animal Welfare Centre, Ringmer, East Sussex
Time of Day:37.5 hours per week , Monday to Friday
Closing Date:February 25 2024

Fundraising Team Coordinator

37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary £20,885

Permanent

Based at our Animal Welfare Centre, Ringmer, East Sussex

Join the Raystede team, where we care for more than 2,000 animals a year. We are one of the most diverse rescue centres in the UK, with many different animal types, including cats, dogs, donkeys, rabbits, terrapins and many more species.

We need a friendly, outgoing lover of people and animals to welcome supporters. You will liaise with the fundraising team to ensure we give our supporters the best possible fundraising experience.

What you’ll be doing!

Main point of contact for all enquiries, phone calls, emails and onsite visitors.
Ensure a warm welcome and an excellent experience for our supporters.
Work closely with the fundraising team across different income streams, including corporate, major donor and community.

We would love to hear from you if you:

Are a good people person who can build lasting relationships with others.
Have good written and verbal communication, with good attention to detail.
Are passionate about creating memorable experiences for supporters.
Have strong organisational skills and be able to think on your feet.

In return, we can offer a beautiful rural work environment, staff discounts in our pet shop and café, mentoring, training, and professional development.

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds and recognise and appreciate the value of transferable skills. If you have any questions about the role or your suitability, please contact Marianne Eyre, Database Fundraising Manager, on 01825 880474 for an informal chat.

To apply please download our application form and email it to us with a cover letter to vacancies@raystede.org.

Closing date for applications is midday on Monday, 19 February 2024

Interviews will be held on Friday 23 February 2024

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Corporate Fundraiser

Location:Based at office near Lewes with hybrid remote/home working available
Time of Day:Full Time Permanent Position
Closing Date:December 4 2022

Corporate Fundraiser

Full Time

Permanent

Based at office near Lewes with hybrid remote/home working available

Salary £24,125

Are you an effective and inspiring networker with the ability to spot opportunities for collaboration and align brand values? Are you a tenacious self-starter with the ability to galvanise groups of people and create advocates? Would you like to help give animals a better life?

We are looking for a key member of our Fundraising Team to build relationships with local and national companies, and extend our business networks, securing vital income for animal welfare from companies.

You will have the ability to manage complex relationships and projects - inspiring stakeholders at all levels - and think strategically about long term prospects, driving further engagement. You may have existing Fundraising experience or could have a B2B sales background or previous business development skills, with a strong track record of developing relationships.

You will be responsible for researching, engaging and pitching to new business prospects and will support relationships to maximise the scope for further engagement.

This is an exciting time to join Raystede as we expand our presence in the community and grow a specialised team of fundraisers. You will help to shape the Corporate Fundraising area from an early stage, listening to the market, and responding entrepreneurially to maximise opportunities and income potential.

Reporting to the Fundraising Partnerships Manager, you will create an exciting and innovative Corporate Engagement Plan, and be supported to develop key relationships as well as being supported to continue your own professional development.

We would love to hear from you if you:

Are an experienced fundraiser or account manager with excellent relationship development skills.
Can inspire and influence supporters to deepen their relationships.
Can represent our work professionally at events, meetings and presentations.
Have excellent networking skills, able to network at the highest level and work closely with our CEO, Trustees and Senior Management Team.
Have good IT skills including CRM databases, and MS Office applications.
Want to make a real, tangible impact to the lives of animals.
Have the passion and drive to go the extra mile, keeping excellent donor care and animal welfare at the heart of everything you do.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Jennifer Deane: Jdeane@raystede.org 01825 627090.

To apply for the role, please complete the application form in the download section below and send by email to vacancies@raystede.org

Closing date for applications: 11.59pm 31st October 2022, however interviews are being conducted on a rolling basis, so please apply without delay to avoid disappointment.

About Raystede

Raystede is a charity that aims to give animals a better life through rehoming, rehabilitation and sanctuary, and give people the support and knowledge they need to treat animals with care and respect. Raystede is Sussex’s biggest animal welfare charity, with nearly 70 years’ experience of caring for and rehoming animals. Uniquely, we care for a huge range of animals - from dogs, cats and donkeys to rabbits, parrots and alpacas. Our experience, expertise and partnerships enable us to deliver an exceptional quality of care for the animals we help. Many of the animals have been neglected, abused or exploited. Raystede helps most of the animals find new homes but also provides life-long sanctuary for elderly horses and other animals that cannot be rehomed. Raystede provides love and safety to those animals that would have nowhere else to go.

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Face to Face Fundraiser

Location:Based at our Animal Welfare Centre near Lewes, and at pre-booked locations around Sussex.
Time of Day:Part Time

Face to Face Fundraiser

Permanent

Based at our Animal Welfare Centre near Lewes, and at pre-booked locations around Sussex

Are you a natural fundraiser, who enjoys talking to people, building relationships, and giving excellent customer service? If you are proactive, highly organised and would love to help give animals a better life, then we have just the job for you!

In your role you will be responsible for growing income through engaging with the public to raise funds through regular donations. You will meet visitors at the Raystede site and take Raystede out to the community across Sussex helping to raise awareness of our work and signing up supporters to Raystede’s regular giving products.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are key to this role and you’ll be comfortable with meeting a variety of people and sharing inspiring stories about the animals helped at Raystede and the work of the charity. This is a busy and varied role, no two days are the same, you’ll need excellent organisational skills to keep everything running smoothly.

This is a great time to join the fundraising team at Raystede. We are preparing to drive ambitious growth across our fundraising income streams over the next 5 years. Expanding our regular giving is key to these plans.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

Relevant experience in a similar role
A talent for building and nurturing great working relationships
An engaging and inspiring personality
Well organised with sound office skills
Want to make a real, tangible impact
Have the passion and drive to go the extra mile, keeping excellent donor care and animal welfare at the heart of everything you do

In return we can offer a beautiful rural work environment, staff discounts in our pet shop and café, flexible working hours and hybrid working, mentoring, training and professional development. But perhaps most importantly, the opportunity to set up something special, and make a real difference to the lives of animals.

This is an exciting time to join Raystede as we expand our growing fundraising team. We are also advertising the following roles: Events Fundraiser, Community Fundraiser and Major Gifts Fundraiser.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Marianne Eyre meyre@raystede.org 01825 880474.

Interviews are being conducted on a rolling basis, so please apply without delay to avoid disappointment.

To apply please download our application form and email it to us at vacancies@raystede.org.

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Fundraising Partnerships Research Officer

Location:Based at office near Lewes with hybrid remote/home working available
Time of Day:Part Time circa 22.5 hours per week
Closing Date:March 28 2023

Fundraising Partnerships Research Officer

Part Time circa 22.5 hours per week (number of hours and days worked to be agreed with successful candidate)

One year fixed term contract

Based at office near Lewes with hybrid remote/home working available

Are you a enthusiastic and self-motivated researcher and organised administrator? Would you like to help give animals a better life?

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated Researcher to become a significant contributor to the development of income generation at Raystede. You will support the Partnerships team by undertaking research from a variety of sources, generating strong written reports and insights, and providing administrative support for the Corporate, Trusts and Major Donor areas.

You will have an analytical eye with the ability to discover trends and stories from raw data. An organised professional, and great team player, you will enjoy gathering insights to support prospecting activity and donor updates. This is a newly created role which offers the candidate scope for developing and shaping the area.

You may have other fundraising experience but now wish to specialise in the major gifts area, you may be starting out in your fundraising career, or perhaps you’re an animal lover who researches, compiles data and writes reports professionally.

The recruitment is part of our ongoing expansion of the Fundraising Team; the candidate will help to propel the Partnerships area forward and will be instrumental in shaping this new role.

We would love to hear from you if you:

Are organised and proactive with the ability to prioritise
Have strong research abilities and the ability to present findings in a concise report and insightful way
Strong written communication skills
Have good IT skills including CRM databases, with excellent record keeping
Have an understanding of GDPR

Want to make a real, tangible impact to the lives of animals
Have the passion and drive to go the extra mile, keeping excellent donor care and animal welfare at the heart of everything you do.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Jennifer Deane: Jdeane@raystede.org 01825 627090.

Closing date for applications: Monday 28 March 2023, however interviews are being conducted on a rolling basis, so please apply without delay to avoid disappointment.

To apply please download our application form and email it to us at vacancies@raystede.org.

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Digital Communications Manager

Location:Based at office near Lewes with some remote / working from home available
Time of Day:Full time, 37.5 hours per week, permanent
Closing Date:July 24 2023

Digital Communications Manager

Location

Based at office near Lewes with some remote / home working available.

Time

Full time, 37.5 hours per week, permanent

Salary

£27,558

Closing date

Monday 24 July 2023

Interviews Monday 31 July 2023

This is an exciting, new role in the Marketing Team at Raystede, a much-loved local animal welfare charity.

What you’ll be doing!

Responsible for managing and delivering all aspects of the digital communications and marketing across the charity, including website, social media and e-marketing.
Helping to develop and deliver a digital strategy that will increase fundraising, awareness and support for Raystede.
Be responsible for the charity’s e-marketing through creation of e-newsletters and support the e-commerce.
Manage Raystede’s Google Adwords, SEO, PPC and all digital advertising.
Act as a point of expertise and support for the digital marketing function for the rest of the organisation and build relationships across all teams.

You’re the person we’re looking for if:

You’re creative and well-organised with experience in digital communications and marketing.
An excellent project manager who can co-ordinate various campaigns and projects at the same time.
Have expertise in email marketing.
Can generate, edit, publish and share exciting and compelling content to support Raystede’s work.
Have analytical skills for monitoring and evaluating digital activity and campaigns
Have a great eye for detail and design, copywriting and proofreading skills.
Can build good relationships with influencers, agencies and suppliers.
And, of course, have a love for animals and a passion to raise awareness of the importance of their care and welfare.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Janet Parsons, Head of Marketing on 07950 024144 or email jparsons@raystede.org

To apply please download our application form and email it to us at vacancies@raystede.org.

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Animal Nursing Assistant

Location:Based at our Animal Welfare Centre, Ringmer, East Sussex
Time of Day:As required
Closing Date:February 25 2024

Animal Nursing Assistant

Contract: Zero Hours - working as required

Salary: £10.71 per hour

Annual Leave: 25 days per annum plus Bank Holidays (pro rata to hours worked)

Closing date: 25 February 2024

Raystede is looking for an Animal Nursing Assistant to work with us on a zero-hour basis. The successful applicant will assist with a variety of tasks in our Surgery as we provide veterinary care to the small animals in our care. Veterinary care including routine health checks, treatment, and operations is essential to finding our animals new homes as quickly as possible, or for some species enabling them to thrive whilst living with us in sanctuary. As this is a hands-on role with animals, some prior experience and knowledge of animal care is necessary however it is an ideal role for somebody looking to gain experience with a view to becoming a veterinary nurse in the future or pursuing other roles working with animals. As a zero hours position, it could be perfect for somebody with other commitments that mean they are unable to fulfil a permanent position.

Main Purpose of Role:

Apply shelter medicine principles in line with Raystede policies and procedures.
Infectious disease control including the cleaning and preparation of veterinary areas.

Restrain animals for examinations, vaccinations and treatment ad monitor animals under anesthesia under the supervision and direction of the veterinary surgeon.
Perform on-site laboratory work as required.

To ensure the effective operation of the Surgery within its position in the wider organisation including stock management, timely completion of records, and correct provision of medicines following internal and external protocols.

Please see Job Description for detailed information including: Key Tasks, Key Working Relationships, Scope and Accountability and Person Specification

To apply please download our application form and email to us at vacancies@raystede.org

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If you haven’t heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion. Thank you for your application.

Major Donor Fundraiser

Location:Based at our Animal Welfare Centre, Ringmer, East Sussex
Time of Day:Part-time | Flexible
Closing Date:March 24 2025

Major Donor Fundraiser

Part-time | Flexible

Salary: £30 to £32K full-time (depending on experience)

Location: Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare, near Lewes

Help grow Raystede’s major donor programme and make a difference to animals in need.

Raystede is at an exciting stage of developing the charity’s major donor programme and preparing for a capital appeal over the next two years. We’re looking for an engaging, enthusiastic and passionate person, skilled in relationship development, with or without fundraising experience.

About the Role

As Raystede’s Major Donor Fundraiser, you will play a crucial role in securing significant donations to support our work, building and nurturing relationships with high-value supporters, regularly engaging with them to maximise their support and commitment. Reporting directly to the Head of Fundraising, you'll work closely with the Senior Management Team and all other teams across the organisation.

What we’re looking for

Fundraising or account management experience with excellent relationship-building skills.
Ability to identify, research and cultivate potential high-net-worth individuals.
Ability to create compelling proposals, make persuasive asks and demonstrate the impact to inspire and deepen supporter engagement.
Strong networking skills.
Ability to build and maintain strong, personalised relationships, working with discretion, tact and sensitivity.
Well-organised, detail orientated and able to plan and deliver long-term strategies.
Proficient in CRM database and MS Office
Experience in event planning and donor stewardship is a plus.
Passion for animal welfare and commitment to Raystede’s mission.

Please read the job description and additional information to help with your application.

If you'd like to discuss the role informally, please contact Wendy Bardsley (wbardsley@raystede.org) to arrange a call.

The closing date for your application is 24 March 2025

Interviews will be held 1 and 2 April 2025

Please apply online

Join us and make a real difference for animals in need!

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Please note we do not accept CVs

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