Job Description
Accreditation and Licensing Advisor
We're looking for an Accreditation & Licensing Advisor to support the review and development of iCatCare's Cat Friendly accreditation and licensing schemes.
Location: United Kingdom, homebased with regular travel for meetings.
Contract: 1-year fixed term, Full-Time 35 hours position.
Salary: Circa £45,000 per annum dependent on experience.
Excellent benefits:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 28 days after 2 years, 30 days after 5 years
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave, employee assistance programme
- New joiners are also given access to personalised coaching through More Happi to support your transition into your new role.
About the role:
We're looking for an Accreditation & Licensing Advisor to support the review and development of iCatCare's Cat Friendly accreditation and licensing schemes (Cat Friendly Clinic, Cat Friendly Homing, Easy to Give and Cat Friendly Approved) This role plays a key part in ensuring our programmes are strategically aligned, operationally effective, and deliver measurable impact for cat welfare.
You'll work closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to strengthen standards, improve processes, and help ensure our schemes are sustainable, robust, and internationally relevant.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the review and development of accreditation and licensing schemes, from application through to assessment and renewal
- Monitor emerging global standards, legislation, and research relevant to animal welfare accreditation
- Conduct competitor and sector analysis to inform scheme development
- Support the creation of clear policies, procedures, guidance, and implementation plans
- Work with data and digital teams to improve systems, reporting, and efficiency
- Coordinate timelines, manage budgets, and identify risks and opportunities
- Support stakeholder engagement, including scheme participants, sponsors, and partners
- Gather, analyse, and report on data for accreditation submissions, performance monitoring, and impact measurement
- Support financial modelling, reporting dashboards, and impact reports
- Contribute to funding and sponsorship development alongside fundraising colleagues
About You
You'll bring experience in accreditation, licensing, quality management, compliance, or a related field, with a strong appreciation of the challenges involved in operating international accreditation and/or licensing programmes. You'll be highly organised, comfortable managing multiple priorities, and confident working independently as well as collaboratively.
You'll communicate clearly and thoughtfully, build positive working relationships, and feel confident using data and digital tools to support decision making and reporting. Above all, you'll be motivated by purpose and shared values, with a genuine commitment to improving cat welfare.
This is a meaningful opportunity to play a part in improving the lives of cats worldwide, within a supportive, values driven charity where collaboration, learning, and impact matter.
Closing Date: Midnight 30th April 2026.
Face to Face Interviews: 12th/13th May 2026.
iCatCare actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. Our application process is non-bias.
We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
