Co-ordinator – Climate Change and DEI

Job Title: Co-ordinator – Climate Change and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Location: Hybrid – Kings Cross, London (with some UK travel).  We operate a hybrid approach to work with Tuesday and Wednesday as core office days in London with an occasional requirement to attend (e.g. key meetings) on other days.

Hours: Full-time working to broadly standard office hours (35-hour week). We will also consider candidates looking to work 0.8 full-time.

Contract: Fixed Term 12 months

Applications close: 3pm, Tuesday 25th February 2025

About Esmée

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is a leading independent funder.  We aim to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK.  We provide c. £50million annually in grants to organisations working in the arts, children and young people, sustainable food and environment, and social change.  We also have an allocation of £60 million for social investment to support organisations creating social impact.

In 2020 we launched a new strategy with a focus on three interdependent aims: improving our natural world, tackling injustice to deliver a fairer future and nurturing creative, confident communities. Under the new strategy we will be providing large, long-term grants as well strategic support to organisations and initiatives with brilliant ideas that work towards these aims.

We believe that understanding and making progress towards diversity, equity, and inclusion will be critical for delivering our mission. To do this, we have worked with the whole team to explore and agree our shared organisational values, and developed a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) action plan – involving both Trustees and staff.  To ensure we keep making progress, we regularly review our action plan, committing to further actions and sharing them alongside our actions so far.

We want our progress towards diversity, equity and inclusion to be measured by our actions, and are keen to encourage feedback, challenge, and new ideas from everyone we work alongside.

More about our approach can be found on our website:

https://esmeefairbairn.org.uk/about-esmee/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/

Useful links to learn about us:

• Our values
• Working for Esmée

The Foundation has an executive team of 43. There are 12 trustees who oversee the work of the Foundation via regular board meetings and committees.

About the role

The Foundation has two cross cutting commitments that underpin its Strategic Plan 2020 – 2027:  addressing the causes and impacts of climate change; and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

The post will work with colleagues across the Foundation – in particular the Senior Management Team – in supporting the development, delivery and co-ordination of work on the two cross-cutting commitments.  In particular:

• To co-ordinate the planning and delivery of our approach to Climate and DEI through both our internal ways of working, and our impact roadmaps.
• To ensure that we move forward with the actions in our Climate and DEI Action Plans.
• To identify and arrange training and learning opportunities to further the Foundation’s understanding and actions on Climate and DEI.
• To help track, monitor and report on our progress.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Provide overall project management for our approach to climate change and DEI, ensuring that the different strands of our work are co-ordinated and aligned, and that actions are followed up.
2. Working with others, to design and coordinate Climate Change and DEI related presentations, learning opportunities and other strategies that will further our cross-cutting commitments.
3. Working with the Data Officer and relevant colleagues, to coordinate data collection, entry, and reporting processes relative to cross-cutting commitments,
4. Organise and assist in creating materials, workshops and presentations for relevant meetings, in particular the DEI and Climate working group.
5. Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of Climate and DEI related practice in the non-profit sector including working with peers and others so we can collectively learn and develop our approach.
6. Working with Communications Lead and other colleagues to ensure the Foundation’s external communications (e.g. website) is up-to-date with the Foundation’s approach and reporting, and internal reporting (e.g. to Board) on Climate Change and DEI progress and actions.
7. To provide ongoing support to the New Connections Fund, plus support and develop initiatives relating to climate and DEI across the Foundation.

Skills and Experience:

• A commitment or experience of working to tackle climate change and/or improve diversity, equity and inclusion, which may have been gained or demonstrated in a number of ways.
• Project management and administrative skills and an ability to prioritise, organise and manage workload to deadlines.
• Good listening and communication skills, including presenting information clearly and concisely in oral and written form.
• Ability to use initiative and work autonomously but within a supportive environment.
• Competent IT skills.

Personal Qualities:

• Able to deal in a helpful, friendly and professional way with a wide range of people.
• Sound judgment – an ability to weigh the options and reach the best solution.
• Practicality with a ‘can do’ approach
• Flexibility.
• Diplomacy.
• An empathy for and commitment the Foundation’s ethos and values.

Please download and view the full Job Description below.

Benefits

12.5% employer pension contribution (with a 5% employee contribution) and a range of benefits including: season ticket loan, income protection scheme, life assurance, (taxable) private medical insurance scheme, Give as You Earn scheme, cycle to work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme.

The Foundation has a strong commitment to the professional development of all staff.

Our commitment to DEI in recruitment

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation believes that a greater diversity of views, skills, and lived experience will help generate better ideas, and will lead to better decision making. We want to encourage applicants with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. In particular, those with lived experience of racial inequity, disability, or poverty.

Closing Date: 3pm on Tuesday 25th February 2025

Interview dates:        

• First stage interview: 13^th March 2025 (online)
• Second stage interview: 18^th March 2025 (in person)

Apply today via the button below! For a chat about the role, you can reach out directly to Dom Szczecinski. Email dom@inclusiverecruiting.co.uk.