Job title: Horse Care and Welfare Programme Officer
Closing date: 16 October 2026
Salary: £29,000.00 per annum
We also offer 26 days’ annual leave (+ public holidays) on starting, matched pension contributions up to 5 percent, enhanced pay when taking leave as your family grows, income protection insurance, a health-cash plan and a wide range of wellbeing and mental health support services.
Location: This Midlands-based role is contracted through our Head Office near Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. While offering extensive flexibility to work from home, the position also involves travel to meetings, events and stakeholder engagements, together with attendance at Head Office as required.
Hours: Our usual full-time hours are 35 a week - with an early finish on a Friday! We offer other flexible work options, such as compressed hours, which we’re happy to discuss.
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.
For further details on this and other opportunities, please visit bhs.org.uk.
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 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.
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Horse Care And Welfare Programme Officer in Kenilworth employer: British Horse Society
The British Horse Society is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive work culture that prioritises employee wellbeing and flexibility. With generous benefits such as 26 days of annual leave, matched pension contributions, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, employees can thrive both personally and professionally in our Warwickshire office, where they can enjoy a balanced work-life dynamic with the option for remote work.
