Location: London, UK.  22 - 26 Paul Street, EC2A 4QE. 

This role is based in London, UK, with opportunities for flexible and home working.

Candidates must have a valid right to work in the UK.

Salary: £29,500 inclusive of London Weighting allowance (per annum pro rata)

Benefits: various opportunities for flexible working, generous time off policies, and other sector-competitive benefits.

• Organising effective project team meetings, tracking agendas and actions

• Organising project stakeholder workshops, meetings and interviews, including managing invitations, travel, venues, facilitation and write-ups and contributing to workshop design and delivery where appropriate

About you

You enjoy working with people from different cultures and across geographies and your preferred ways of working are embodied by Forum’s values.

To thrive in this role you will have:

• Excellent organisational skills and successful experience of prioritising a large and diverse range of tasks and managing complex flows of information 

• High level of attention to detail & communication skills

• Excellent working knowledge of MS office, Google Suite, video conferencing platforms (e.g. Zoom, Teams), and relevant knowledge management databases (e.g. Dropbox) 

• Research and analysis skills 

• A commitment to the Forum for the Future culture, values and a sustainable future

• Personal resilience and adaptability in the face of uncertainty and complexity

• Self-reflective, with a commitment to continual learning and development

• A team player – able to work effectively across a matrixed structure and across geographies

• Proactive – able to work independently

Our work environment

We believe in being courageous, adaptive, inquisitive, respectful, empathetic and playful. You can read more about our organisational values here. These values help build our common culture, shape our shared purpose and guide us in all actions and decisions.  We are inspired by the world in which we live and those with whom we share it and seek to act justly in all we do.

We enjoy working in teams, collaborating, and learning from each other. We are a dynamic, flexible and supportive team of people who care about each other’s wellbeing and the world around us. 

At Forum, we aspire to foster positive team spirit and to provide the best possible working environment for all our staff; one that is based on the highest standards of ethics, honesty, integrity, openness and transparency. 

We are an inclusive organisation that encourages applications from across our diverse communities. We’re committed to building a team of capable and thriving people from all walks of life.

If this role interests and excites you, we would love to hear from you.  Where you do not meet all of the requirements outlined in the job description, but still believe you have the right mix of skills and experience to thrive in this role and further Forum’s ambitious goals for change, we encourage you to apply.

In return, we offer a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of systems thinking and change making. We work as a close knit, dynamic, and supportive team. We offer various opportunities for flexible working to help you manage your work life balance.

Together we can reinvent the way the world works.

Application process – please read before applying

To find out more about this vacancy, please download and read the full job description.

Job Description

Application deadline is 11.59 pm BST, 4 October 2021

We use the Applied platform because it is designed to reduce bias in our recruitment process. To apply for this job, we ask you to answer a few work-based questions. Please therefore read the application questions carefully and answer them in the space provided (250 words) to clearly demonstrate your understanding of the role, and how your skills and experience will enable you to thrive and deliver in this post in Forum for the Future

The Applied platform includes instructions on how to use the portal. Once you start your application you will be presented with a dashboard which helps you to track your progress and reminds you of the closing date for the application. As you complete sections you can draft and save your responses to review and submit when you are ready to (as long as you’re within our required application deadline).

Some of the personal data you provide to Applied when you apply for a role with Forum for the Future will be passed on to us for the purposes of (a) reviewing your application; (b) inviting you for interview; and/or (c) offering you a job and getting you set up as an employee. For full details on how we collect and use your personal data please visit our privacy notice here.

If your application is not successful, any personal data provided to us by Applied (including any personal data relating to equal opportunities monitoring as set out above) will be retained by Forum for the Future for no longer than 12 months after the application deadline has passed, at which point your personal data will be securely deleted. We only keep your information for that period in order to allow us to comply with relevant legal obligations.

Please note:

Forum employees are currently working remotely; once the offices re-open, we will return to working from our London, UK office, however, there is a possibility for this role to be fully remote, subject to negotiation.

Some of the personal data you provide to Applied when you apply for a role with Forum for the Future will be passed on to us for the purposes of (a) reviewing your application; (b) inviting you for interview; and/or (c) offering you a job and getting you set up as an employee. For full details on how we collect and use your personal data please visit our privacy notice here.

If your application is not successful, any personal data provided to us by Applied (including any personal data relating to equal opportunities monitoring as set out above) will be retained by Forum for the Future for no longer than 12 months after the application deadline has passed, at which point your personal data will be securely deleted. We only keep your information for that period in order to allow us to comply with relevant legal obligations.

Equal Opportunities

Forum for the Future wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities in employment. We promote and support equality, diversity and inclusion both in our own workplace and through our work with our partners and the wider public.  We actively support and promote diversity as an essential component of sustainability, and as a key element of our organisational values.  We oppose all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination on the grounds of colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, caste, religion or belief. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, including those who identify as disabled, LGBTQ, ethnic minorities, and come from diverse social and educational backgrounds.