Chief of staff, Animal Think Tank, UK, remote

Animal Think Tank is small, but ambitious. Our mission is to help build the political, strategic, and narrative power of the UK animal freedom movement. To achieve that we need disciplined operations, timely delivery, and a thriving, accountable team. This role is about making that happen.

You will work in close collaboration with me, Mark Westcombe, Animal Think Tank's director. Your role will take ownership of our people, progress, and accountability. A primary objective of the role is to help me gain time to focus on strategy, fundraising, and crucially, to think.

If you want to be a driving force behind delivering a mission that matters, read on

Your Core Purpose

enable organisational delivery so the director can focus on strategy and fundraising.

Core Responsibilities

• Culture: Shape a strong, high-performance organisational culture.
• Progress and Accountability: Drive key organisational priorities forward; keep projects on track; and hold the team accountable for outcomes.
• People Operations: Line manage our narrative research, engagement, and cultural sector work (with director retaining political and organisational strategy, and external comms).
• Strategic partner: Act as a trusted advisor, partner and sounding board to the director.
• Growth: Help scale the organisation - build the systems, processes, and people we need.
• All Hands On Deck: We're all crew at Animal Think Tank, all roll up our sleeves, and do whatever it takes.

You

You are a disciplined, driven, and people-savvy leader. You thrive on building strong teams and enabling them to excel. You take pride in helping others succeed, including those you report to.

You do not need prior experience in the animal freedom movement, but you must be deeply mission-aligned.

This is not a job, salary or career - it's a vocation. The role might suit mid, late or end career professionals, including those who've an accomplished career and are now looking for a purposeful and meaningful