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This is a hybrid role with global travel, and can be fulfilled from either London or Bath.
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Would you like to help shape the future of environmental activism and advocacy worldwide?
Are you a highly organised multi-tasker with a background providing an exceptional executive support function?
An internationally impactful charity is recruiting for a Chief of Staff. This is a brand-new position for a confident, attentive, and highly motivated professional to provide diligent and effective support to the CEO, and actively enhance the impact and effectiveness of a range of global high-profile advocacy campaigns and initiatives that will positively contribute to the health and future of our shared planet.
This is a rare opportunity for an organised, strategic, and ambitious individual to engage and influence senior stakeholders, major donors, parliamentarians, and government officials, and further EJF’s agenda of addressing the challenges to our shared planet, biodiversity, and connected human rights.
The Role
With a significant emphasis on operational oversight, you will thrive working both strategically and at a senior level. The role of Chief of Staff to the CEO extends beyond being a sounding board and 'right hand’, you will oversee and report on key, and at times highly confidential projects while also as representing the CEO at crucial meetings, often in an international setting.
As the CEO is heavily involved in the development and delivery of advocacy strategies, you will proactively provide direct support on core environmental justice issues; monitoring relevant policy developments, providing analysis to inform advocacy efforts, and maintaining, engaging, enhancing and influencing relationships with journalists, policymakers, government representatives, and high-net-worth individuals. With the charity’s remit of work spanning the globe, you will also review how individual country programmes are performing, while making objective assessments on whether local operations and staff are working well and delivering as expected.
Acting as an effective gatekeeper, it is paramount that you actively reduce the CEO’s competing demands and workload, achieved via scheduling, prioritising tasks, and ensuring deadlines are met and actively taking on tasks that are delegated to you. Harnessing your eagle eye for detail, you will also promptly draft and edit high-quality content for public and internal communications, including press releases, speeches, articles, and social media posts. Your gatekeeper role will involve a thorough review of documents produced by colleagues, ensuring you apply your knowledge of the issues and strategies to published materials, ensuring alignment across the comms and campaign teams and aiming for excellence across the organisation’s public outputs.
A full list of responsibilities can be found within the Job Description.
The Person
It is essential that the Chief of Staff is confident, enthusiastic, hands-on, and attentive. As an effective multitasker with experience in project coordination, we are seeking a professional who has a genuine appetite to grow their career through superb programme delivery within a global setting and to strive to help shape the future of environmental activism and advocacy worldwide.
Exceptional interpersonal skills, specifically in relation to listening, candour, diplomacy, and maintaining strict discretion will be fundamental to nurturing relationships and achieving the desired outcomes both externally and internally. Naturally, it is essential that you have demonstrable experience providing a first-class administrative function to a C-Suite executive.
A background working across the human rights and environmental landscape is desired, but not essential.
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Even if you do not meet every requirement listed, if you share our passion for changing the world, please submit your CV and Louis will be in touch regarding your application.
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Candidates must have the legal right to live and work in the UK.
The charity is an equal opportunities employer committed to fostering diversity within the workplace and is s committed to supporting our staff and making reasonable adjustments.
If you require support to apply for or fulfil the requirements of this role, please inform Louis to ensure that these options are discussed with you.
