Job Title: Chief of Staff
Location: London or Bath (Hybrid with international travel)
Reporting to: CEO
Salary: Competitive, based on experience
Application Deadline: 1st August 2025
This is a rare and exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced person to join the team at the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF): one of the world's leading non-profit organisations, working at the intersection of environmental conservation and human rights.
About the Environmental Justice Foundation
EJF exists to protect the natural world and defend our fundamental human right to a secure environment. We believe in equity and justice and a need to respect, defend, and empower communities most at risk from habitat loss, biodiversity collapse and global heating. We campaign for environmental justice.
We use hard-hitting investigations, cutting-edge film and photography and strategic, high-level advocacy to secure lasting, systemic change to protect the ocean, wetlands and climate for biodiversity and for people. Our programmes are underpinned by grassroots partnerships and film-led investigations in the Global South, where our dedicated local teams work on complex, challenging issues, speaking truth to power. We partner and support environmental defenders and journalists, providing vital equipment and targeted training in filmmaking, investigations and communications that amplify grassroots voices and build local leadership and resilience to environmental injustice.
The Role
As Chief of Staff to the CEO, you will be a strategic partner and trusted advisor, playing a pivotal role in driving EJF’s mission forward during an exciting period of growth and global impact. You will support and empower the CEO to lead effectively across multiple programmes, geographies, and teams, ensuring the highest levels of operational focus, internal alignment, and mission delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Support: Act as a force multiplier for the CEO, helping to prioritise initiatives, manage high-level projects, and streamline decision-making processes. The role will act as a gatekeeper for the CEO, addressing and balancing competing demands and workloads.
- Executive Coordination: Prepare and arrange briefing documents, talking points, and correspondence. Attend meetings with or on behalf of the CEO and ensure timely follow-ups. Coordinate the CEO’s public and media engagements to ensure he is well-prepared.
- Organisational Alignment: Facilitate communication between the CEO and global teams to ensure alignment on goals, priorities, and values. Provide objective assessments of teams and their efficiency and effectiveness.
- Project Management: Oversee special projects from inception to completion, ensuring they align with organizational strategy and deliver measurable impact. Support for income generation, including grant applications, monitoring and reporting.
- Donor Engagement: Support major donor engagements and high-stakes partnerships.
- Thought Partnership: Serve as a critical sounding board, offering insights and constructive challenge on complex organisational and strategic issues.
About You
- You are highly organized, diligent, intellectually curious, and deeply committed to environmental and social justice.
- You have a strong background in strategy, operations, or executive-level coordination, ideally in a nonprofit, policy, or international development setting.
- You possess exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, and a strong ability to research, synthesise and apply information quickly and to a high standard.
- You are diplomatic, discreet, and thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
- You are proactive, resourceful, and capable of working independently on complex problems.
Desired Experience
- Minimum 7 years of experience in a senior strategic, advisory, or operational role
- Prior experience working with or reporting to C-suite executives
- Understanding of the nonprofit or advocacy sector, preferably in environmental or human rights fields
- Ability to travel internationally if required
What We Offer
- A purpose-driven role where your work will have a real-world impact
- A supportive, mission-led team with a shared commitment to environmental justice
- Opportunities for international engagement and professional growth
How to Apply
Please send your CV and a cover letter outlining your interest in the role and how your experience aligns with our mission to the email address provided.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK.
EJF is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity within the workplace.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
About us:
Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting is the world’s only movement for every girl and any girl because we believe that each of them deserves to be the best they can be. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts learn by doing, making friends and having fun. In brave, local spaces, girls develop the skills and attitudes to change themselves, their communities and our world. The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts supports 153 national Girl Guide and Girl Scout organisations around the world to be united, thriving and growing.
Job Purpose:
This role will be hosted and contracted by one of the members of the Big Six: WAGGGS. Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting is the world's only movement for every and any girl. WAGGGS is the organisation that keeps the Girl Guide and Girl Scout Movement thriving, united and growing. This role operates within the context of a volunteer-led global charitable organisation with 153 Member Organisations.
About the Role:
With responsibility for delivery of Outcome 2 of the Youth Empowerment Fund, this role will deliver initiatives relating to capacity building, youth-led advocacy and events and will sit within the GYM-YEF project coordination team under the supervision of the Project Coordination Leadership team.
This position will work closely with Big Six representatives to deliver Capacity building initiatives to YEF awardees, Youth Panellists, and the Global Youth Mobilization GYM Network and be responsible for ensuring coordinated efforts across the project.
Key Responsibilities:
-
Manage the implementation of the capacity building for the Youth Empowerment Fund of GYM
-
Collaborate with Big Six Designated Leads in the coordination of the capacity building offer and work plan
-
Manage relationship with designated project Capacity Building leads in each of the Big Six in activating their national organizations/societies/operators in the YEF
-
Monitor the Capacity Building project budgets and prepare relevant reports for governance and donors, supporting the MEL officer.
-
Oversee development of advocacy guidance and production of policy recommendations follow up on use of resources following events.
-
Support the development and roll out of the GYM-YEF Network, for peer-peer learning, capacity building opportunities and collecting useful resources for young people’s personal and professional development.
-
Support the GYM youth-led advocacy objectives and long-term partnerships.
-
Contribute to the staff activities of WAGGGS, participating in staff sharing days, Global Programmes Team departmental meetings and activities and other activities as appropriate.
Registered Charity
51 - 100
We are the largest voluntary movement dedicated to empowering girls and young women in the world.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.