Job Title
Development Executive
Contract Type
Permanent
c. 30 hours per week (negotiable with postholder)
Salary
£30,000 - £34,000 FTE
Location
Remote (home based), but able to attend meetings and events throughout the UK as required.
Reports to
Director of Development
Key Relationships
BCA Staff; BCA Board; BCA Committees; Corporate Partners; Colleges delivering chiropractic education (currently five)
Job Summary
Are you a membership or sales professional who loves building relationships, driving growth, and creating campaigns? Do you enjoy combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery?
We’re a leading professional membership organisation at an exciting point in our growth, and we’re looking for a Development Executive to play a key role in recruiting and engaging new members.
Working as part of a collaborative small team, and alongside the Director of Development, you’ll help shape and deliver our membership growth strategy - strengthening our student pipeline, attracting new members, plus developing and selling a new clinic-level membership model.
This is a varied, outward-facing role that blends strategy and relationship management with plenty of scope to bring ideas, creativity and energy.
About You
We’re looking for someone who is confident, proactive, ready to make an impact and has:
· Proven experience in membership development, recruitment or a similar growth-focused role.
· A strong understanding of target-driven delivery.
· Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence engaging stakeholders at all levels.
· Experience delivering campaigns and improving member journeys.
· A proactive, organised and professional approach.
· Experience within professional bodies, not-for-profits, education or membership.
· Confident in using a CRM to track campaigns and sales pipelines.
You’ll be comfortable working independently, but also enjoy being part of a supportive, collaborative team.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
As our membership focused Development Executive, you will lead on the delivery of member recruitment and engagement activity, helping to grow a strong, connected professional community. Your work will sit across three core growth pillars:
Student Recruitment
o Strengthen relationships with universities, student representatives and early-career members.
o Support initiatives to maximise student take-up of free membership.
o Drive conversion from student to paid membership post-graduation.
o Working with our Events & Partnerships Manager to deliver events for our student and new grad community.
Member Acquisition
o Deliver targeted campaigns and value-led propositions to attract new members.
o Engage chiropractors currently outside professional association membership.
o Support activity aimed at recruiting members of other associations.
Clinic-Level Membership
o Support the development of a scalable clinic-level membership model.
o Help shape propositions that add value for multi-practitioner clinics.
o Review and shape at our e-commerce offering for members.
Core responsibilities
· Work with the Director of Development and Membership Executive to implement the membership acquisition strategy.
· Develop and deliver retention initiatives, working closely with the Membership Executive.
· Build strong relationships with members, education providers and partners.
· Collaborate with the marketing team to deliver effective membership campaigns.
· Attend and present at member events and universities across the UK.
· Work with our Events & Partnerships Manager to deliver events for our student and new grad community.
· Support the Student Committee.
· Deliver against annual membership growth and engagement targets.
· Track performance, analyse results and continuously improve campaigns and journeys.
· Support the wider development teams events and corporate engagement activities.
Benefits
Working remotely with an option for full, or part time hours and a range of benefits including:
· Flexible working policy, supporting work–life balance
· Generous holiday allowance, plus bank holidays
· Pension contribution and private health insurance
· Annual wellness budget to support your physical and mental wellbeing
About the BCA
The British Chiropractic Association is the largest and longest-standing membership Association for chiropractors in the UK. We are a progressive, ambitious professional membership body, focussed on doing the very best for our 2000+ members and for the chiropractic profession more widely.
If you are interested in joining the BCA Team, please apply by submitting a current CV with a covering letter, outlining in no more than 250 words why you believe you are suited to this role.
Closing date for applications is 12:00 on 13th Feb 2026. Applications will be asked to interview on a rolling basis.