Chief of Staff

The 5Rights Foundation is looking for a strategic management and fundraising professional to help lead our small and high impact global team in fighting for a digital world that supports children and young people to flourish.

At 5Rights, we work with policy-makers, regulators, technologists, and NGOs all over the world to advocate for one simple principle: the enormous potential of digital technology will only be realised when it is designed with children and young people in mind.

Having helped craft and pass policy and legislation across 5 continents, we are looking to scale up, enhance our effectiveness and increase our impact. The Chief of Staff is a new position that supports the Executive Director with the management of our dynamic advocacy, compliance, comms and youth engagement teams; ensures quality control; and leads an ambitious fundraising operation.

If you’re passionate about taking on one of the most critical and challenging issues of our time; if you’re committed to doing what it takes to deliver meaningful change for children; and if you have exceptional strategic, people and marketing skills, we’d love to hear from you.

Experience in organisational management, strategic coordination and fundraising is required, preferably with a tech regulation, child or human rights lens.

We are offering remote working (with part-time co-working space access in London or Brussels) with employee contracts in the UK or Belgium; salary ranges from £43,600-£48,300 (for UK) or EUR 61,500-68,100 (for Belgium) depending on experience.

About 5Rights:

5Rights Foundation exists to ensure a digital world that will serve children and young people today and for future generations.

We are a small team of senior professionals and experts delivering change in how the digital world works. We have shifted the narrative and the agenda through provocative comms campaigns (e.g. Twisted Toys), pioneering research (e.g. Pathways) and award-winning tools (e.g. Child Online Safety Toolkit). We continue to drive real-life change thanks to an outstanding track-record of delivering legislation (e.g. Californian Age Appropriate Design Code), policy and regulatory frameworks (e.g. UNCRC General comment No. 25), and industry standards (e.g. IEEE 2089).

Key responsibilities:

Reporting to the Executive Director (ED), you will:

Internal communication, coordination and decision-making:

• Facilitate early-warning, problem-solving and decision making by the ED.
• Facilitate internal communication, information flows and coordination across teams.
• Facilitate internal work programming and implementation.
• Oversee cross-cutting projects and activities.
• Provide strategic support to the ED, including with planning, agenda prioritisation and outreach.

Message and quality control:

• Facilitate clear strategic coherence of action, positioning and messaging across the organisation.
• Ensure quality control of 5Rights’ outputs.

Fundraising and reporting:

• Coordinate the development and delivery of high-quality funding applications.
• Conceptualise and coordinate the development of fundraising materials and delivery of fundraising events and actions.
• Mobilise and support ED, Trustees, team members and ambassadors for effective fundraising.
• Develop, implement and deliver on an ambitious fundraising plan.
• Represent 5Rights towards funders and partners; manage these relationships and associated contractual requirements.
• Lead on 5Right’s impact monitoring, measurement and reporting.

Person specification:

You’ll be an experienced, confident and dynamic senior professional, with a demonstrated ability to think strategically, get the best out of people and deliver outstanding results. Most of all, we’re looking for someone who’s energetic, thorough, proactive, super smart, highly persuasive, and committed to our mission.

ESSENTIAL skills and attributes:

• Have at least 6 years of relevant experience, of which at least 2 in a position with similar responsibilities, and demonstrated impact.
• Have the right to work in Belgium or the UK, and willingness to relocate to one of these jurisdictions if necessary.
• An understanding of technology (policy) issues.
• Possess exceptional judgment and strategic thinking.
• Have the acumen and finesse to handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities simultaneously, prioritising conflicting needs and mixing long- term projects with the urgency of immediate demands.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written.
• Exhibit the skills to collaborate with and achieve actionable results through others, as well as the ability to build strong and sustainable relationships, and the capability to interact within all levels of the organization and with external constituents.
• Demonstrate good understanding of financial and human resource management.
• Deliver high-quality products, events and actions, including when working fully independently.
• Maintain discretion and confidentiality.
• Handle matters expeditiously, proactively, and follow-through on projects to successful completion, often with deadline pressures.
• Be punctual and dependable.
• Have an acute sense of responsibility.
• Be able to work without close supervision and to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Be skilled at dealing with conflict and facilitating problem-solving.
• Possess a spirit of cooperation and enthusiasm.
• Have good stamina and willingness to work odd hours and travel if necessary.
• Demonstrate a strong interest in the mission of the 5Rights Foundation and commitment to our values.

DESIRABLE skills and attributes:

• A background in technology issues or human/children’s rights.
• Proven ability to deliver large-scale funding, including from high net-worth individuals.
• Experience working internationally and in culturally-diverse settings.

Remuneration and details:

• Location: Remote position with employee contract in UK or Belgium. Hybrid working in 5Rights’ London and Brussels co-working office spaces is available.
• Salary: £43,600-£48,300 for UK-based candidate, with flexibility depending on experience; EUR 61,500-68,100 for a Belgium-based candidate.
• Working hours: Full time, with some accommodation necessary for work across time-zones and international travel.
• Statutory pension contribution.
• 25 days of annual leave.
• Work equipment including a laptop and mobile phone will be provided
• Starting data: asap.
• Reporting line: Executive Director.

5Rights values diversity and we strongly encourage people from under-represented groups to apply for this role. We aim for our recruitment to be inclusive and equitable, and we strive to constantly learn and improve in this regard. Feel free to share your views and suggestions on how we could improve our approach with us via email to admin@5rightsfoundation.com.