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The Royal Kennel Club

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51 - 200 employees

🤲 Charity

📚 Education

🛡️ Insurance

Charity • Education • Insurance

The Royal Kennel Club is the United Kingdom’s historic national kennel club and charity dedicated to dogs, their health, welfare and responsible ownership. It operates pedigree registration services (over 250,000 dogs registered annually), health and genetic testing resources, breeder guidance and research programs, training and accreditation (including Good Citizen Dog Scheme and RKC instructors), and runs major events such as Crufts. The RKC also offers memberships, educational seminars and online courses, publishes specialist journals, manages venues and clubs, provides pet insurance and runs campaigns and charitable activities to improve canine welfare.

📋 Description

• Lead relationships with the Royal Kennel Club Breed Rescue network and affiliated rescue organisations. • Support rescue organisations with governance, compliance and data protection guidance. • Develop and maintain relationships with key welfare organisations including Battersea, Dogs Trust, RSPCA, Blue Cross and ADCH. • Represent the RKC at conferences, forums, roundtables and industry events • Manage relationships with RKC Foundation grant recipients and funded projects. • Produce regular reports, presentations and board papers • Analyse breed rescue and welfare sector data to identify trends and opportunities. Support delivery of canine welfare and Foundation initiatives with strategic partners • Coordinate partner participation in campaigns, events and projects.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing stakeholder relationships, partnerships or external affairs programmes. • Knowledge of canine welfare, rescue and rehoming. • Strong presentation, communication and relationship management skills. • Experience analysing data and producing reports and recommendations. • Ability to influence and work across multiple internal and external stakeholder groups. • Strong planning, organisation and project management capability.

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days, in addition to statutory holidays. Staff may also receive additional days for any approved business closure days over the festive period in December • Option to buy up to five days of annual leave per year • Employer pension contributions double the percentage of your plan earnings, up to 8% • Life assurance equivalent to three times your basic salary (two times your basic salary for non-pension scheme members) • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay • Lifestyle discounts via our EAP and healthcare cashback programme • Discounts on Royal Kennel Club products and services • 4 x complimentary staff tickets to Crufts and Discover Dogs • Healthcare cashback programme with a fixed contribution paid for by the Royal Kennel Club • Free eye tests with a voucher towards the cost of your spectacles • Financial support for professional and vocational qualifications, with five days' study leave provided • Free access to the Royal Kennel Club Library and Art Gallery