Communications & Community Manager (Maternity Cover, 4 days/week) - Purpose Disruptors

£45,000 - £50,000 • Purpose Disruptors • London

• Contract: Maternity Cover - Fixed Term 9-12 month contract - 4 days a week
• Salary: £45,000 -£50,000 for 4 days
• Start Date: Monday 10th November 2025
• End Date: This contract will finish upon the return of the permanent employee after the 9- 12-month maternity leave period, 30 days notice will be provided.
• Benefits:
  • 16.5 - 22.5 days annual leave plus 3 extra days at Christmas
  • Pension contribution
  • Budget for personal development
  • Sustainable Travel allowance up to two additional days off with our ClimatePerks policy
  • Quarterly team away days in nature
• Location: UK based. Hybrid - 1 day a week at a Central London office and the rest working from home. While the majority of work can be done remotely, the position requires regular travel for in-person meetings and events. For this reason, we are looking for someone who lives in or can easily commute to London.
• Application Deadline: Wednesday 17th September 2025

About Purpose Disruptors

Founded in 2019, Purpose Disruptors is an award-winning organisation on a mission to change the story of advertising, from a story of extraction to regeneration, from negligence to responsibility, and from carelessness to conscious consumption. We’re on a mission to change the story of advertising by educating and inspiring disruptors to write the next chapter

Our work includes: Developing a pioneering measurement framework - Advertised Emissions - to measure the holistic carbon emissions of advertising, now adopted by the UN as best leadership practice; developing a flagship sustainability training programme, ChangeTheBrief adopted by all six network groups across the industry and founding Project Good Life 2030, aimed at redefining the concept of a ‘good life’ by shifting the focus away from consumerism towards connection. Most recently, we launched the Agency for Nature - the first Creative Agency for All Life on Earth, garnering attention from the BBC, The Irish Times, Mashable, Vogue Business and It’s Nice That.

About The Role

As we enter a critical window for transformative climate action across the creative industries, we’re seeking a proactive, creative and strategically-minded Communications and Community Manager (maternity cover) to help amplify our impact and elevate our presence across sectors and audiences.

You’ll love juggling opportunities and learning new things. Whilst you might not be an expert in all things comms, you will have the drive and desire to find out how to make stuff happen. You will have lots of initiative, a sharp eye for opportunities, and a deep sense of ownership. You should be just as comfortable drafting media releases and thought leadership as you are hosting a community event or jumping on a call with collaborators.

As the voice of Purpose Disruptors across channels—you will own and execute our communications plan, manage our social platforms, and translate often complex or technical concepts into compelling, accessible messages. You’ll also nurture our growing community, designing and hosting moments of connection—both digital and in-person—that energise and grow our network.

This role is central to the Purpose Disruptors’ mission. You will shape the way we communicate, build relationships with our growing community, and bring energy and consistency to our voice across multiple platforms and projects.

Projects You Will Be Supporting

You will be supporting multiple, simultaneous projects and community events across the entire range of Purpose Disruptors initiatives including:

Project Good Life: Since early 2021, Good Life 2030 has brought together leaders and creatives from across the industry to explore what compelling visions of a new ‘good life’ in 2030 could look like, and what these visions mean for them as individuals, their work, their businesses and for the advertising industry itself. Since its inception, there have been various Citizen Vision reports, imagination workshops, briefs and creative campaigns activated in the UK (explore them here). The project has also expanded into Ireland funded by Creative Ireland (part of the Government of Ireland).

Agency for Nature: The Agency for Nature project rallies major advertising agencies around one mission: use creativity to create hype for nature connection in UK youth culture. In its inaugural year, we worked with five top agencies: Wieden & Kennedy, Leo Burnett, Amplify, The&Partnership and Oliver who brought world-class creativity and cultural cut-through to the challenge. Now in its second year, the initiative brings together 5 new creative agencies and media partners.

ChangeTheBrief : Change The Brief is the flagship sustainability learning programme for marketing and advertising professionals, created by Purpose Disruptors. The programme equips them with the skills to navigate the climate transition and adapt their work to promote the sustainable lifestyles urgently needed in society. The programme has been adopted by the ‘big six’ ad holding companies, endorsed by the advertising trade bodies, and recently launched in Australia and the USA, with over 5,000 members.

Advertised Emissions: Advertised Emissions is Purpose Disruptor’s flagship measurement framework that enables agencies, media owners and brands to go beyond their operational emissions and measure the holistic impact of their work: the greenhouse gas emissions that result from the additional sales generated by advertising. Launched at COP26, and recognised by the UNFCCC Race to Zero as Leadership Best Practice and adopted by Dentsu, Advertised Emissions is gaining momentum and recognition both in the UK and globally. As companies across the industry increasingly recognise their role in shaping consumer behaviour and make commitments to promote more sustainable choices, Advertised Emissions is the clear choice to help them demonstrate and quantify progress.

Events: As well as the initiatives outlined above we also organise a monthly pub night and have previously hosted a leadership roundtable series, online webinars, and project launch parties.

What We’re Looking For

Key Responsibilities:

Communications Planning & Content Creation

• Develop, lead and deliver our external comms planning across multiple platforms including: social media, web, email newsletters, media outreach, campaigns and partner channels.
• Help ensure consistency and clarity across branded communications and project touchpoints.
• Delivery will include:
  • Crafting compelling copy that reflects our tone of voice: visionary, inclusive, ambitious and grounded in climate science and nature.
  • Writing, editing and designing content including newsletters, social media, web copy, blog posts, event summaries, and toolkits.
  • Collaborating with colleagues to translate research and insights into digestible and engaging content for different audiences—from CEOs to creatives to NGO’s

PR & Media Relations

• Build and nurture media relationships across advertising trade press, business, sustainability and culture media.
• Draft and distribute press releases, pitch stories, and seek earned media opportunities to amplify our work.
• Support co-founders and collaborators with thought leadership opportunities, key messaging and talking points.

Community & Network Building

• Plan, manage and host regular community events (in-person and virtual), ensuring diverse and inclusive participation.
• Develop programmes and engagement strategies to strengthen our network of allies, collaborators and advocates.
• Support relationship management across partner agencies, creative collaborators and industry stakeholders.

External Events

• Manage calendar of key advertising industry and climate events, opening up opportunities for representation of Purpose Disruptors' work
• Support co-founders with event preparation, content ideas and event pitches to bring key projects to event audiences
• Represent Purpose Disruptors at external events, spot opportunities to build alliances and relationships

Project & Campaign Support

• Work closely with project leads to ensure key campaign and event milestones are aligned with comms outputs.
• Use tools like Monday.com to track deliverables, coordinate schedules, and ensure timely delivery of campaigns.
• Adept at managing upwards and coordinating stakeholders (in this case, often three co-founders) to structure messaging, output and resource

Skills and Experience

You may not be an expert in all these things, but you’ll be comfortable (and even thrive) in working out how to get stuff done and embrace a new opportunity, even if you’ve not done it before.

Essential

• Proven experience in communications, PR or comms planning
• Ability to write clear, creative and strategic content across channels (e.g. newsletters, social, decks, blogs).
• Passionate about climate, nature, you’ll naturally be across major topics, breakthroughs and events in the climate and nature sector, whilst also having a deep desire to create systems-level change through culture and communication.
• Experience managing communities or networks and facilitating meaningful engagement.
• Excellent event planning skills, from small workshops to high-profile panel events.
• Project management skills and experience with digital tools like Monday.com, Squarespace, Mailchimp, and Google Suite.
• Self-starting, lots of initiative, this role requires someone who’s confident and thrives in grabbing things and running with them.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships across diverse stakeholders.

Desirable

• Understanding of the UK advertising and media landscape.
• Contacts in climate/green business, culture, or sustainability media.
• Design and content creation skills (Canva, Adobe Creative Suite).
• Experience translating research into compelling narratives and visual content.
• Preferably experience in climate, culture, advertising or non-profit sectors.

Further Information

Location

UK Based. Hybrid - 1 day a week at a Central London office and the rest working from home. While the majority of work can be done remotely, the position requires regular travel for in-person meetings and events. For this reason, we are looking for someone who lives in or can easily commute to London.

Application Process

As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, returning parents, carers or any other aspect which makes them unique. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented groups to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that the recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

Our Team

We are a small organisation with 9 employees (full-time and part-time), including the 3 Co-founders, as well as a broader network of consultants and freelancers whom we work with on a project basis. The successful candidate will be welcomed into a close-knit, friendly, fun and supportive team.

You will work closely with all co-founders and project directors, and our designer who works with Purpose Disruptors one day a week.

Culture & Values

Nature sits at the heart of Purpose Disruptors. In 2024 we legally recognised Nature on the Board in our company governance to ensure ecological implications are considered in our decision making.

We foster a collaborative, inclusive and non-hierarchal culture - ensuring everyone’s voice and perspective is valued. We have quarterly away days in nature based locations, a chance to come together and reflect.

These are the values that guide our work and how we interact with the world and each other:

• Helpful and Inclusive - Seeking to support all on the climate journey
• Humble and Respectful - Collaborative, not competitive
• Reflective and Questioning - We don’t tell, we ask and take time to think beyond the now
• Soft Power and Radical - Gentle in our approach, steadfast in our beliefs
• Progressive and Agile - We are the future, moving with urgency and determination

Funding

We are part funded by philanthropic charitable foundations and we also secure revenue from private sector organisations through our training and consultancy offerings.

Application Deadline:

Wednesday 17th September 2025