Senior Organiser Job (Worker-led Transition): Drive Climate Action and Worker Justice in 2026

The Senior Organiser – Worker-led Transition role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of climate action, labour rights, and social justice. This 12-month position is designed for experienced organisers who want to help shape a fair transition to a low-carbon economy while supporting workers and industrial communities across the UK.

About the Program

This role is offered by New Economy Organisers Network in collaboration with Trades Union Congress as part of the Worker-led Transition project.

The initiative focuses on supporting workers in high-carbon industries—such as steel, automotive, and manufacturing—to actively shape a sustainable future for their sectors. It aims to ensure that climate transition efforts protect jobs, strengthen communities, and create new opportunities in clean industries.

The successful candidate will play a key role in building bridges between climate movements and trade unions, helping to align strategies and mobilise collective action across industrial regions.

Why This Opportunity Matters

As the UK transitions toward a decarbonised economy, hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk without proper planning and investment. This role directly addresses that challenge by ensuring that workers are not left behind in the shift to greener industries.

By supporting a worker-led approach, the project promotes solutions that are both environmentally sustainable and socially just. It also contributes to countering divisive narratives by building a shared vision for economic and climate resilience in industrial communities.

For professionals committed to movement-building and systemic change, this role offers the chance to work on one of the most pressing issues of our time.

What You’ll Gain

This role provides hands-on experience in movement building, coalition development, and strategic organising at a national level.

You will develop and implement organising strategies, facilitate trainings, and work closely with community groups, activists, and trade union members. The position also offers the opportunity to co-design events and campaigns that bring together diverse stakeholders to drive change.

With a flexible 28-hour work week and a strong emphasis on work-life balance, the role supports both professional growth and wellbeing. You’ll also gain experience working within a collaborative, values-driven organisation focused on long-term impact.

Who Can Apply

This role is best suited to experienced organisers with at least three years of work in movement building, campaigning, or grassroots organising.

Ideal candidates will have experience in activities such as mapping and outreach, campaign design, political education, coalition building, and convening organisations around shared strategies. Strong facilitation and training skills are also essential, particularly in working with communities directly affected by injustice.

Applicants should be comfortable working in fast-moving environments, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on organising. Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust across diverse groups are key to success in this role.

An understanding of either the climate movement or the trade union movement is important, and experience working across both is particularly valuable.

The organisation is also seeking individuals committed to anti-oppression work and to building inclusive movements that challenge structural inequality in all forms.

Location and Conditions

The role is based in London, United Kingdom, with a hybrid working model requiring at least 25% in-office presence.

The position also involves regular travel across England and Wales (approximately 3–4 days per month), including occasional overnight stays.

This is a full-time role structured around a 28-hour work week, offering flexibility in how those hours are distributed.

Application Process and Deadline

Candidates must complete the application form and submit it along with an Equal Opportunities Monitoring form via email as outlined on the official job page.

The application deadline is May 10, 2026.

Learn more and apply on the official NEON website to be part of building a fair and worker-led climate transition.

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