Co-Executive Director – Development & Impact

Salary: £58,060 FTE

Location: Remote with regular in-person team days across the UK every six weeks and other potential required UK travel

Hours: 0.8 – 1 FTE (30-37.5 hours per week)

Contract: Permanent

Benefits: 7% pension contribution, 30 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays (pro rata), personal training and development budget, flexible working, subsidised counselling offer, Union recognition, enhanced sick leave, enhanced parental leave.

Application deadline: 11:59pm, Sunday 2nd November 2025

About the role

The Co-Executive Director – Development & Impact will provide joint leadership for People’s Economy, inspiring and driving our team, community and partners to achieve our mission.

Their focus is on building and strengthening the organisation by ensuring we have the systems, resources, knowledge and processes in place to scale our programmes and deliver our strategy effectively.

This is a generalist leadership role focused on building organisational capacity rather than holding deep specialist expertise in all areas. The postholder will instead assess what we need to strengthen the systems that support our programmes and make it happen.

For this position we are looking for people who are passionate about addressing economic injustice, bring experience growing mission-led organisations in a values-led way, are committed to shared leadership and are excited about leading our journey to reimagine how we make decisions and distribute power more widely.

Online Open House: Candidates are invited to attend an information webinar and to meet some of the team (including the other Co-Director) on Wednesday 8th October at 12pm (register here) or Thursday 23rd October at 5pm (register here).

Both webinars will cover the same content, so there is no need to attend both.

Apply by 2nd November 2025

Interview dates and location: First-round interviews will take place on the 18th, 19th and 24th of November via Zoom.

Second-round interviews will take place on either the 9th, 10th or 11th of December, in-person in London.

If you will be unavailable for any of these dates please mention this in your application email.

Diversity, inclusion and anti-oppression: We are particularly keen to receive applications from members of communities experiencing economic injustice, and people working for change as part of these communities.

We also strongly encourage applications from people who are: women and non-binary people, from Black and Asian backgrounds or are other people of colour, or members of other marginalised groups.

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How to apply

To apply for this role please submit your CV and a cover letter to careers@peopleseconomyuk.org with the subject line
‘Co-Executive Director – Development & Impact Application’.

Your cover letter should address the following questions and be no longer than one A4 page:

• Why do you want to be part of the People’s Economy team?
• How do your skills and experience meet what is set out in this Job Description?

To be considered for the role you must submit your application by 2nd November.

Please also complete a Diversity Monitoring Form here. This is not mandatory but helps us ensure we are reaching everyone, and informs whether we should make changes to improve our roles and recruitment practice.

We want to see people at their best and so of course will make any reasonable adjustments relating to long-term conditions or disabilities that you need to help you perform at your best.

Please let us know if this applies to completing your written application. We also ask you to let us know when submitting your application if you have any requirements for accessibility-related adjustments if you are selected for an interview.

Let’s also name the elephant in the room!
Sometimes we all experience a bit of imposter syndrome.
At People’s Economy, we lean into this feeling. We believe that imposter syndrome is a manifestation of the oppression many of us face day to day. You don’t have to tick all the boxes for each role to apply. If you feel a pull towards a specific role and believe you could make a difference we would love to hear from you!