What are we looking for?

We particularly value candidates who can bring the following attributes:

• Strategic perception: sensitive to short-term demands and challenges, yet able to set these in the context of broader, long-term trends, and possible future changes;

• Critical faculty in decision-making: able to challenge assumptions and bring in alternative perspectives, but then ready to make decisions to further the organisation’s vision and mission;

• Open and collaborative communication: able to listen with curiosity, thoughtfulness and deep respect to a range of different positions and perspectives, open to reconsidering your own assumptions and changing your mind;

• Learning orientation: able, and willing, to take calculated risks, and review outcomes with the capacity to always be constructive and with a focus on the future, whilst also having an awareness that our works sits within, and must respond to, a rapidly changing and often unpredictable political context.

We actively encourage and are keen to receive applications from those with skills and lived experience that are currently under-represented in our team, notably candidates with:

• networks and/or lived experience of politics in Scotland, Wales, the Midlands and/or the North of England;

• lived experience of the intersectional challenges facing women in politics, including women from ethnic minority backgrounds, low-income women, Disabled women, younger women, and those who identify as LGBTQIA+;

• understanding of legal and governance requirements related to CICs and other small companies; and/or

• understanding and experience of the development and management of earned-income streams in the democracy or related sectors.