I am currently setting up Jenkins to work with SVN repository. Currently it works fine for the trunk. Now I want to set up Jenkins to take care of newly created branches. I don\
Also check my extend answer if you are not very familiar with jenkins.
It provides a step by step solution with screenshots.
The subversion plugin is installed by default in recent versions(as for Sep 2015).
Then you should configure your project as following:
check following screenshots: