The Donkey Sanctuary is an international animal welfare organisation, offering care and protection to donkeys worldwide. Our vision is a world where every donkey has a good quality of life, and our mission is to improve the lives of donkeys every day. We will achieve this by transforming the lives of donkeys in need worldwide by fostering greater understanding, collaboration and support, and by promoting lasting, mutually life-enhancing relationships. 

We now have an excellent opportunity for a proactive and flexible team player with outstanding interpersonal skills to join our busy Farms Department. As Farms Operations Coordinator, you will work closely with, and will provide an efficient and professional administrative service to the Head of Ireland Farms and Farm Supervisors to ensure effective operations on Ireland Farms, and will support the day-to-day co-ordination of the Farm Maintenance Team.

About you:

• Level 3 Business administrations qualification or equivalent experience in a diverse administrative post.
• Able to manage conflicting priorities and deadlines.
• Demonstrable basic knowledge of building trades or agriculture.
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively, clearly and diplomatically.
• Excellent IT skills, proficient in Word, Outlook and Excel.

About the role:

Your principal duties and responsibilities will include –

• Providing administrative and project support to the Head of Ireland Farms, including managing diary and calendar, arranging and facilitating meetings, minute taking, booking travel.
• In the absence of the Head of Ireland Farms, assume deputising administrative duties as deemed appropriate and relevant.
• Managing all operational aspects of Ireland Farms administration and providing support for the implementation of the Charity's strategies within the Ireland.
• Working with the Head of Ireland Farms to ensure that accurate records of statistics and summaries for operational and strategic reports are collated and submitted.
• Maintaining up to date manual and computerised records and collating end of month data for the department, including donkey numbers, rehoming, staff, utilities, eBis, machinery, and staff holidays, sickness and overtime.
• Arranging recruitment of new Farm staff – having awareness of all Farm Staff vacancies so that suitable applicants can be matched to vacancies.
• Effectively supporting all Farms teams in Ireland ensuring the teams understand their contribution to the Charity's strategic objectives and their own roles and responsibilities.

What we offer:

Based at Hannigans Farm, near Liscarroll, County Cork, this is a part-time, fixed term contract ideally starting on the 20^th July 2026 until 18^th July 2027, working 16 hours per week, there is a required to be on site 1 day a week. preferable on Friday.

Benefits:  

• Competitive pension.
• Life assurance.
• 20 days holiday per year. This increases by one day each year until a maximum of 25 days is reached. There is an additional 10 public holidays
• Wellbeing team.
• Recorded Pilates classes.
• Long service awards.
• Healthshield plan, including reimbursement of some medical expenses up to the specified limits per membership, offers, discounts and cashback on shopping, travel and entertainment from participating outlets, access to a 24/7 GP and counselling service.
• Free parking.

Closing date for completed applications: Tuesday 7 July 2026.

Before submitting your application, please ensure you read our candidate journey page, in particular our FAQs section – https://jobs.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/jobs/candidate-journey/

The Donkey Sanctuary is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people (children and adults), and expects all staff and volunteers to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to safer recruitment processes, including an application for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where required for the post.

The Donkey Sanctuary also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and, for relevant posts, may request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

Please note: The Guaranteed interview scheme is only applicable to candidates who consider themselves to have a disability applying for roles based within the United Kingdom.

NOTE TO APPLICANTS: We look forward to receiving your application, but we do ask you to complete this in your own words, and not to employ an Artificial Intelligence (AI) writing tool or assistant. Applications that are considered not to be an applicant’s own work may not be shortlisted for interview.

Before submitting your application, please ensure you read our candidate journey page, in particular our FAQs section – https://jobs.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/jobs/candidate-journey/