Job Description

ABOUT THE ORGANISATION:

Strength & Learning Through Horses provides mental health and education support to some of London's most vulnerable young people through offering equine assisted therapy and alternative education programmes. The organisation's ability to deliver excellence in its service quality is dependent upon a skilled and competent workforce where learning and continuous improvement is a fundamental aim. Central to this role is the ability to work according to the organisation's core values of:

Ambition: for young people, SLTH and ourselves as individuals Curiosity without judgment (about human and equine behaviours) Embrace difficulty; it's where the learning happens
Strength & Learning Through Horses has been in operation for over 10 years and has grown year on year in terms of income and number of young people reached and number of services we offer.

400 - 500 young people per year benefit from our life changing services at our centre in Barnet, North London. We have planning permission to develop our site to create purpose build facilities with capacity to help over 700 young people per year and ambitious longer term plans for growth to share our model with other centres across the UK.

We have 5 full time and 5 part time contracted staff members, 18 freelance staff members and work with 17 volunteers.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

To make the dream of completing our site development and expanding capacity a reality we are looking for an ambitious graduate to help us implement our fundraising and marketing strategy to support our transition to the next phase of growth.

This graduate staff member will sit in the Fundraising team working with the CEO and Community Engagement Manager to implement a capital fundraising campaign to raise 700,000 over 2 years in order to fund the build and to secure longer term funding to secure the financial sustainability of the charity over the long term.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the charity at a time of growth and change and an opportunity for someone to really make this role their own with opportunities to develop and grow within the role as the organisation grows.

SKILLS AND QUALITIES REQUIRED:

Driven and ambitious, both in personal career goals and in achieving and surpassing fundraising targets. Sales, marketing or fundraising experience is desirable but not essential. Excellent written skills to tell our story to funders is essential Confident communicating with a wide range of individuals including senior and influential people including presenting and networking Self-motivating and able to work on own initiative
Self-motivated and able to work independently on fundraising projects including:

Inputting to fundraising strategy Reporting efficiently on progress

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU:

Contribute to tackling youth mental health crisis - with an inspirational team?of multitalented people Mentorship from senior leadership to help shape your professional journey Benefit from investment and a genuine commitment to you, your training and career development including: Personal CPD budget to access further training & develop your skills including up to 5 days leave available for CPD per year on top of holiday allowance Access to in-house training sessions in various areas of horse and human psychology Generous holiday allowance Healthcare plan

Don't meet every single requirement?

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every criteria in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at SLTH and we'd welcome an explanation as to how you believe you would develop the skills required with training.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to 30,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Employee discount On-site parking Private medical insurance
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person