FELLOWSHIP DIRECTOR JOB DESCRIPTION Year Here is a platform for entrepreneurs who want to tackle problems that matter, consisting of a one-year Fellowship and an Accelerator programme offering investment and business support.

Since launching at 10 Downing Street in 2013, we’ve worked with over 200 aspiring social entrepreneurs and launched award-winning social ventures like Birdsong, Appt and Chatterbox.

We’re on the hunt for a Fellowship Director to lead the development of the Year Here Fellowship.

ABOUT THE ROLE As our Fellowship Director, you will be leading a programme that nurtures the UK’s most promising professionals towards entrepreneurship that genuinely makes a difference.

This is a new role. As we expand our offerings, we’ve identified the need for a dedicated leader of our year-long Fellowship, the centrepiece of Year Here’s work,

This job demands both strategic nous and adept management capabilities. You will set strategy for the Fellowship and design our social innovation curriculum. Operationally, you’ll manage partnerships and faculty relationships, sell our consulting offerings, lead our selection process and ensure first rate programme management.

It’ll be really varied. In any given day you might be signing up new partners for a consulting project, redesigning the leadership development strand of our curriculum and working 1:1 with a Fellow on their venture idea.

Along with our CEO and Director of Ventures, you’ll be part of Year Here’s senior management team.

The deadline for applications is Sunday 9th August.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES Some of the big challenges we want you to take on are to:

Design and lead the UK’s most transformative programme for aspiring social entrepreneurs. As the intellectual leader of the Year Here Fellowship, you will take ownership of the course’s curriculum design. You’ll drive continuous improvement of the programme by channeling the best social innovation content and expertise into the programme

Lead a small team to manage the behind-the-scenes systems that make the programme run like a well-oiled machine. You will head our 5-strong programme team with two senior managers reporting directly to you. Collectively, you’ll manage key functions that enhance Fellows’ experiences of Year Here – from onboarding and digital learning resources to impact measurement and pastoral care.

Curate and nurture a diverse network of partners and faculty of social innovation experts. You’ll always be on the hunt for ambitious new partnerships to enhance the programme with additional insight, methodological expertise, practical support or perks for the Fellows. You will be the relationship lead for our 75-strong faculty and key programme partners like Bain, UBS and Nesta. You will also build out Year Here’s accessibility by forging partnerships that enable us to widen access to the programme.

Sell our innovative services to social sector organisations in housing, health, education and more. Working with the CEO and other programme team members, you’ll build commercial partnerships with local authorities, housing associations, national charities and social enterprises. You’ll work with clients to craft stretching briefs for the consulting phase of the course,

Identify the most exciting, diverse new social entrepreneurship talent in the country. You will lead our biannual selection process, whittling 100s of applicants down to a 20-strong cohort of talented, diverse aspiring social entrepreneurs through selection workshops, assessed exercises and interviews.

Get stuck in to facilitation and coaching with our Fellows It won’t just be management, you’ll keep a hand in direct delivery too. You’ll regularly facilitate group sessions and work 1:1 with Fellows. You’ll bring insight and wisdom to our Fellows’ learning experience, helping them make connections between curriculum content and the real-world application that the course demands.

ABOUT YOU We’re keen to hear from a range of applicants from diverse professional backgrounds who can demonstrate some, or all, of the following capabilities:

You know your stuff in the world of social impact and innovation. You’ll be confident in the majority of Year Here’s curriculum, from social impact measurement to lean startup methods. You’ll be familiar with some of the social issues that we work on – from the housing crisis to educational inequality. And you’ll join us with a relevant professional network – be it in local government, frontline charities or social enterprise.

You’re an educator with the ability to design learning experiences, facilitate groups and coach individuals You bring curriculum design skills and pedagogical tools and tricks too. And, whether you’ve had a formal education role in the past or simply mentored and nurtured new talent, you have enjoyed bringing out the best in others through your career.

You’re a confident and competent team leader, project manager and partnership-builder. You can lead teams, complex projects and large programmes with confidence. You break down problems with a cool head and take tough decisions when needed. You are adept at building partnerships, identifying points of alignment and spotting opportunities to create value. You love nurturing relationships and building trust.

You’re committed to diversity, inclusion and social justice You understand the need to dismantle unjust systems and you are committed to this work. You know that this starts with being engaged in personal work to better understand your part in patriarchy, systemic racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and other oppressions.

You’re not afraid of working hard in pursuit of a big vision. You love a challenge and are up for getting behind our vision of a better society. With an entrepreneurial bent, you’re used to achieving a lot with a little. You’re excited by the prospect of joining a fast­moving, ambitious working environment.

In summary you will have:

ESSENTIALS NICE TO HAVES

A background in the social impact field.

Significant management capabilities.

Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Curriculum design, facilitation and coaching skills.

Experience of managing public or social sector innovation.

An understanding of startup business.

Commercial / sales experience.

Experience of leading formal education.

SALARY + BENEFITS • £40,000 to £50,000 pro rata, depending on experience • Gorgeous, accessible, open plan studio in Hackney, a stone’s throw from

London Fields (and its newly-reopened Lido), Regent’s Canal and Broadway Market.

• Access to tonnes of events and training sessions delivered by some of the leading lights of the social innovation world.

• A strong commitment to personal and professional development – with a £500 annual training budget.

• Up to 3% contribution to your pension. • 25 days paid annual leave per year.

TO APPLY Send your application to Jack Graham on opportunities@yearhere.org with the subject line “[Your Name] / Fellowship Director” and:

• Tell us about yourself and why you want this role. • Tell us about a learning experience you have played a leadership role in. What

made it work? • Tell us where you heard about this role. • Attach your CV and/or link us to a LinkedIn profile or online portfolio.

The closing date for the role is midnight on Sunday 9th August although we will be conducting interviews on a rolling basis – so get your application in early.

There is a 3-stage selection process:

1. Submission of CV and cover letter as detailed above. 2. An initial telephone interview (20 mins). 3. A final round interview and a test (2 hours).

We are committed to building a diverse team and strongly encourage applications from women, minorities, LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities.

WHO WE ARE Unlike a traditional Master's, the Year Here Fellowship is an immersive, action-oriented postgrad course. Over one year, diverse and multidisciplinary cohorts of Fellows learn at the frontline of inequality – in care homes, homeless hostels and schools across London. Supported by a rigorous social innovation curriculum and industry mentoring, they found some of the most promising social startups in the UK.

Our new Year Here Accelerator supports those emerging businesses with investment, specialist business support, access to clients, and office space.

And the Year Here Foundation, a new charity in the Year Here family aims to widen access to social entrepreneurship through provision of bursaries and practical support to high-potential entrepreneurs from low income and underrepresented backgrounds.

Our growth Since launching at 10 Downing Street in 2013, we have grown steadily. Today, we are a team of 8 and a faculty of 75 social impact experts. We turnover £700,000 / year.

Our business model is unique. We don’t charge a tuition fee for the Fellowship. Instead, Fellows work on real-world social projects that we are paid for. This income, along with some recurring grants, covers the cost of the programme. The Accelerator makes money by taking a cut of the startup investment raised and a small stake in each company. The Foundation raises funds from philanthropists who share our mission.

Year Here is a social enterprise; meaning that our purpose is to create positive change in society rather than to maximise shareholder profits. Our Articles of Association state that at least 20% of our profits must be reinvested in our social mission.

Social Impact Year Here’s 212 Fellows have collectively volunteered 130,000 hours in frontline services – including homeless shelters, care leavers' services and pupil referral units – and launched 33 new social ventures backed by Nesta, The Observer, Ashoka, UnLtd, Bethnal Green Ventures and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

These ventures include:

• Birdsong - a fashion brand selling clothes made by women’s groups, from older knitters to migrant seamstresses, with a ‘no sweatshops, no photoshop’ ethos.

• Fat Macy’s - a roving restaurant that trains homeless Londoners to run supper clubs, with profits helping them raise a deposit for their first flat.

• Appt – a HealthTech company that uses behavioural economics to improve uptake of preventative healthcare measures in diverse patient communities.