{"id":14,"date":"2025-01-23T12:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/bre\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:02:05","slug":"person-specification","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/zsl\/person-specification\/","title":{"rendered":"Person Specification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"hero\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/zsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/439\/2025\/12\/zsl-banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"zsl-banner-1\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"title\">\n\t<div class=\"title__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"title__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"title__content\">\n\t\t<h1>\n\t\t  Person Specification &#8211; Chief Supporter Officer\t  <\/h1>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"content\">\n\t<div class=\"content__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content__column\">\n\t\t  \t\t\t\t<h2>Experience<\/h2>\n<h3>Essential<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Extensive senior leadership experience across fundraising, marketing, or audience\u2011engagement functions within a complex organisation, ideally in the charity, INGO , membership, or visitor\u2011attraction sector.<\/li>\n<li>Proven track record of delivering multi\u2011million\u2011pound income growth, including significant success in high\u2011value fundraising from philanthropy, trusts, foundations, and corporate partners.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrable experience leading integrated fundraising and marketing strategies, delivering measurable increases in supporter engagement, visitor acquisition, and long\u2011term income performance.<\/li>\n<li>Experience designing and implementing large\u2011scale supporter or customer journey frameworks, using insights to drive personalised engagement and lifetime value.<\/li>\n<li>Successful leadership of complex organisational change, including restructuring, organisational development, and capability\u2011building across multidisciplinary teams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Knowledge and skills<\/h2>\n<h3>Essential<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Proven strategic capability to design and deliver integrated fundraising and marketing strategies grounded in insight, financial and commercial rigour.<\/li>\n<li>Strong data\u2011led decision\u2011making skills, with the ability to use analytics, segmentation and supporter insight to shape journeys and maximise lifetime value.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent relationship\u2011building and communication skills, able to engage and influence senior stakeholders, donors, partners and trustees with credibility.<\/li>\n<li>Deep understanding of fundraising disciplines &#8211; including philanthropy individual giving, trusts, foundations and corporate partnerships &#8211; and their regulatory requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Solid knowledge of modern marketing practice, including brand, digital, CRM, audience development and visitor acquisition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional requirements<\/h2>\n<h3>Essential<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This post is a blended role for office and home working; travel to Zoo sites and engagement events will be required.<\/li>\n<li>This post requires occasional work during evenings and\/or and weekends.<\/li>\n<li>Strong commitment to creating a culture that lives ZSL values and commitment to safeguarding, equality and diversity (collaborative, inspiring, inclusive, innovative, impactful and ethical).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/zsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/zsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/zsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/zsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/zsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/zsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/zsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/zsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}