The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce)
Are you an experienced Head of Design looking for your next challenge?
Do you want to work for an exciting social change organisation with the mission of enabling people, places and the planet to flourish?
With our new Design for Life strategy we are embarking on the next chapter in our 260 years’ strong history of social impact, with a range of interventions to unite people and ideas to turn world changing ideas into world changing actions.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a Head of Regenerative Learning and Design to help us achieve real impact by entrepreneurially developing and delivering interventions that support the RSA’s Design for Life mission to unlock everyone’s potential to contribute to regenerative impact. By regenerative impact, we mean tangible progress towards improving the health of our interwoven social, ecological and economic systems and their ability to restore and replenish one another. This moves us forward from the passive ‘do less harm’ principle of sustainability, to the active ‘do more good’ principle of regeneration.
This role is based from RSA House in London for at least three days per week, with hybrid flexibility for the remaining days.
About You
What we look for in a successful Head of Regenerative Learning and Design candidate:
- Commitment and passion for The RSA’s mission to shape a more regenerative world.
- Knowledge of regenerative design, learning design and systems thinking theories, approaches and methods, and their practical application to complex social and ecological challenges.
- Experience of developing commercial offers, products and proposals for public, private and third sector partners that have successfully led to revenue generation.
- Experience of working with people, communities and businesses to transform future capabilities needed for innovation and action that contribute to a more regenerative world.
- Excellent interpersonal skills – able to quickly develop collaborative working relationships and communicate, influence and negotiate with multiple stakeholders at different levels and from a range of backgrounds and disciplines.
- Open and curious attitude to learning, iterating and adapting through doing.
To find out more about this role, please download our job description on our website.
Apply
In order to apply, please click ‘apply for this job’ on our recruitment page and submit your CV. You will also be required to answer a series of questions. You do not need to submit a cover letter.
Please submit your application through the RSA website. We cannot accept applications via email. All applications will receive an automated response.
The closing date for receipt of applications is 9am on 31 January 2023. However, screening and interviews will be ongoing, so we may close the vacancy early if sufficient exceptional candidates apply. Please get your application in as soon as possible.
Please note that we cannot accept late, incomplete applications, and we can only consider candidates who apply through the online application process.
Inclusion Statement
As a social change organisation, we believe everyone, regardless of visible or invisible difference, should be welcomed to participate in creating a better future.
We aspire to maximum inclusion in our work and endeavour to challenge systemic inequity and all forms of discrimination. We therefore welcome applications from everybody who is committed to our vision and values and can demonstrate the skills, competencies and experience required for the role applied for.
Read full our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on our website.
About Us
We are the RSA. The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. Where world-leading ideas are turned into world-changing actions. We’re committed to a world that is resilient, rebalanced and regenerative, where everyone can fulfil their potential.
The RSA has been at the forefront of significant social impact for over 260 years. Our proven change process, rigorous research, innovative ideas platforms and unique global network of changemakers, work collectively to enable people, places and the planet to flourish.
We invite you to be part of this change. Join our community. Together, we’ll unite people and ideas in collective action to create opportunities to regenerate our world.
We offer great benefits, including 29 days holiday (plus bank holidays), additional wellbeing allowance, free fellowship throughout employment and lots more! Read our full list of benefits on our website.
To apply for this job please visit rsa.peoplehr.net.