Can you lead Friends of the Earth in our mission to achieve climate justice?
We are seeking to appoint an Executive Director to lead Friends of the Earth (England, Wales & Northern Ireland) at a crucial domestic and international moment for climate, environmental, and social justice.
You will motivate, inspire, and build the capacity of a growing and diverse network of people coming together to transform our environment into one that is flourishing, sustainable, and socially just.
You will do this as a passionate and effective advocate for an environment that is getting better, a safer climate, abundant nature, healthy air, water, and food. We work from the grassroots to the global in communities throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland to play our part in the international network of our sister organizations around the world.
We are looking for someone with established credibility and standing within the environmental and/or social justice sectors, someone able to inspire our activists, staff, and allies, and to attract funding and resources to enable our vital work; someone with outstanding strategic vision and organizational leadership as well as a collaborative approach to build and deliver transformative work internally and externally.
With exceptional communication and relationship skills and an empathetic approach, you will inspire and lead our engagement across the political landscape and engage with a widening range of communities. Fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion, including our commitment to becoming an anti-racist organization, you will be key to our work in pursuit of a just and sustainable world for all.
CLOSING DATE: THURSDAY 2nd JANUARY 2025 (AT 23.59)
HOW TO APPLY AND KEY DATES
Please apply by sending a curriculum vitae, supporting statement, and Equality & Diversity form to our recruitment team, details in the Information Pack.
Your supporting statement should be no more than 2 pages of A4 and address the key requirements of the person specification with relevant examples of your experience and outline why you are interested in the post. Please state if you wish to be considered under
Disability Confident . To ease administration, please combine into a single Word document.
Please do not use PDF format. We are undertaking direct recruitment via this process. Additionally, Oxford HR is assisting us via an executive search process. If you are engaged with that, please continue to route your application via them. All applications will be reviewed jointly. Key dates: Closing date: Thursday 2nd January 2025
(at 23:59) First stage 1st Interviews: Wednesday 15th/ Thursday 16th January 2025 (online via Teams meeting) Second stage Meetings with key stakeholders: Wednesday 22nd/ Thursday 23rd January 2025 (online via Teams meetings) This will include meetings with representatives of our Boards, management, staff, Nations, and the recognized union (Unite). 2nd Interviews: Wednesday 29th/ Thursday 30th January 2025 (in person at our London office) We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance including a 4-day working week with no loss of pay, excellent learning and development opportunities, and a vibrant organizational culture. Our staff body is currently under-representative of People of Colour, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with long-term conditions or impairments. We are committed to eroding these historic barriers, so as to create a movement in which people from all walks of life see themselves in, and so we particularly encourage you to apply if you belong to one of these groups or sit at multiple intersections of disadvantage. We are committed to the Disability Confident standard and will guarantee an interview to any candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role. Friends of the Earth staff
who publicly represent Friends of the Earth (including all campaigners) are not allowed to also represent a political party. This is to ensure that there can be no confusion in the minds of the public about Friends of the Earth's party-political independence.
Affected staff should also seek permission from the Senior Management Team if they wish to hold a non-public facing official role in a political party. If this is an issue, please do raise this with us as soon as possible.
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Disability Confident . To ease administration, please combine into a single Word document.
Please do not use PDF format. We are undertaking direct recruitment via this process. Additionally, Oxford HR is assisting us via an executive search process. If you are engaged with that, please continue to route your application via them. All applications will be reviewed jointly. Key dates: Closing date: Thursday 2nd January 2025
(at 23:59) First stage 1st Interviews: Wednesday 15th/ Thursday 16th January 2025 (online via Teams meeting) Second stage Meetings with key stakeholders: Wednesday 22nd/ Thursday 23rd January 2025 (online via Teams meetings) This will include meetings with representatives of our Boards, management, staff, Nations, and the recognized union (Unite). 2nd Interviews: Wednesday 29th/ Thursday 30th January 2025 (in person at our London office) We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance including a 4-day working week with no loss of pay, excellent learning and development opportunities, and a vibrant organizational culture. Our staff body is currently under-representative of People of Colour, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with long-term conditions or impairments. We are committed to eroding these historic barriers, so as to create a movement in which people from all walks of life see themselves in, and so we particularly encourage you to apply if you belong to one of these groups or sit at multiple intersections of disadvantage. We are committed to the Disability Confident standard and will guarantee an interview to any candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role. Friends of the Earth staff
who publicly represent Friends of the Earth (including all campaigners) are not allowed to also represent a political party. This is to ensure that there can be no confusion in the minds of the public about Friends of the Earth's party-political independence.
Affected staff should also seek permission from the Senior Management Team if they wish to hold a non-public facing official role in a political party. If this is an issue, please do raise this with us as soon as possible.
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