Location - Central London / Hybrid – regular attendance expected
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Contract – Permanent, Full Time but open to considering part-time (minimum 4-days per week)
Salary - £42,640 - £46,280
Reporting to – Director of Development
Deadline - Sunday 12th January
Application Process
Application guide
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WHO WE ARE
We’re Hubbub, a creative charity that’s been inspiring positive environmental action since 2014. Every campaign is sparked by our passion to problem-solve and make greener choices easier and more possible for everyone – from food to fashion and from reuse to greener and more connected communities. Everyday solutions that bring people, community groups and business together to do good and create change that scales and influences far beyond the people involved. Change that shows how much is possible when we all get on board.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
We’re an award-winning team, working with some of the biggest brands in the UK to create exciting new projects at the cutting edge of environmental behaviour change – the likes of IKEA, VMO2, Starbucks, JustEat and many more. You’ll be working in our Development team to help form the future of this work, working closely day to day with our Development Director and the rest of the Development team.
You’ll also have opportunities to work with all our project teams across the different areas of Hubbub’s work, discovering new leads and developing compelling funder proposals.
OUR VALUES
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Give a damn about the environment: it’s authentically at the heart of everything we do because we’re committed to taking action on climate change and the environment. We care about the difference we make and are honest about our impact.
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Curious: have an interest in people, places, trends, politics and the world we live in. Asks questions, seeks knowledge and has self direction to discover the answers. We have an eye for detail and intuition to see opportunities. Always explores new ways to engage wider communities meaningfully.
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Entrepreneurial: leads the way. Embraces flexibility to achieve our charitable purpose. Nimble and brave enough to take risks to experiment without fear. Proud of independent spirit. Takes initiative and responsibility.
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Creative: Re-imagines everything and enables people to see things differently. Trusts intuition and brings magic to everyday. Continually challenges the way things are.
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Playful: positive and playful to connect people, catch imaginations and make people smile, because the world is serious enough.
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For Everyone: Creating ways to include everyone in climate action, breaking down barriers and making it worthwhile too. It’s built into who we are and everything we do.
HOW WE WORK
We do things the Hubbub way:
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Scope: We care about the environment and believe the cause is bigger than the organisation. We’re always thinking about the most pressing challenges and problems we can tackle. We collaborate with organisations, big and small, who share our ambition to find new ways to disrupt the status quote and inspire action that’s good for the environment, and for everyone.
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Discover: We’re curious. We listen, observe and ask questions to gain insight and knowledge to understand the people and places we want to inspire. We use our intuition and experience to identify opportunities to instigate action on environmental issues. We build ideas based on evidence.
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Create: We’re a creative bunch. Our campaigns put ideas into action to raise awareness, change habits, and show that good things happen when people come together. We start with things people care about. We use behaviour change techniques, positive language and highlight the benefits. We use good design, seasonal hooks and a splash of playfulness.
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Experiment: We’re entrepreneurial. We have a healthy restlessness. As we deliver campaigns we constantly experiment, measure and adapt what we do, to test new ways to connect with people and find out what has the biggest impact.
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Scale: We start small and think big. Our campaigns ripple, scale and influence far beyond the people involved in them. We share what we discover, the good and the bad. Sometimes we give it another go to find a better way. When it works we open source our ideas so they can be replicated and scaled. We build transformation opportunities to shape systems and policy.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
We’re looking for a commercially minded business development professional who has expertise working with multiple businesses to generate new and exciting opportunities. Our new Development Manager will be motivated by pushing new ideas and selling existing Hubbub products & services.
Your role will include:
Helping to propel the Charity’s fundraising goals
Hubbub’s Development team is responsible for bringing in new income into the charity by developing project partnerships with businesses and trusts & foundations. This role will be focused on maximising and developing our business leads and converting them into new opportunities to maximise our impact by working with topic experts across the team in developing the most compelling proposals.
This role will be about 70% of your time and will include:
Maximising Hubbub Enterprise’s Potential
Hubbub Enterprise is our social enterprise arm. Founded in 2016 to scale and replicate the most commercially viable ideas of the Hubbub to maximise both impact and income, it holds a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, and all its profits go back into the charity.
Today Hubbub Enterprise is best-known for selling the world’s first customizable voting ashtray, the , in 43 countries across the world. It also runs trips for businesses in London’s Docklands; a one-of-a-kind litter-picking trip to both learn act on and learn about plastic pollution and its effects on the marine environment! Looking ahead, we’re developing a new product related to the Ballot Bins – focused on general litter rather than solely cigarette butts. The successful candidate will be taking the lead not only on steering this exciting new venture but outlining a strategy to maximize future growth for all three of these products and the future of Hubbub Enterprise.
Enterprise will be about 30% of your time and will include:
WHO YOU ARE
Regardless of your experience, alignment with Hubbub's values is essential.
Hubbub’s success and distinctiveness rests on the quality of our people. At every stage of their career, a Hubbuber is:
If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified, and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!
WHAT YOU'LL GET
Here at Hubbub, we’re dedicated to creating an environment where everyone can thrive. This includes breathing inclusivity and equity into everything we do. Whether that be offering adjustments that help people work at their best, training our staff on Mental Health and Neurodivergence, or not having our socials down the pub. We’re proud to have won the Shift Inclusive at Heart workplace 2023 and the Best Company to Work For (not for profit) at the Culture Awards in 2024, but we’re most proud of our consistently high staff survey score “I would recommend Hubbub as a great place to work “ at an average 3.7 out of 4 for 3 years running. You can get a sense of what working at Hubbub is like via our socials.
Some of the benefits you get for working at Hubbub are:
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Generous Holiday - 25 days per year, plus bank holidays (increasing to 30 after 5 years). Our office usually closes for around 2 weeks at Christmas which is additional to annual leave, and if you hang around for 5 years, we offer an additional 4-week paid sabbatical.
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Flexible working - Hubbub operates a flexible working policy. We trust our team to do a good job and be committed, and how they do that is up to them! Our core hours are 10am-4pm, but we are flexible to suit people’s needs. Flexible working also includes any reasonable adjustments required to enable each person at Hubbub to work to the best of their abilities.
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Investment in Development – We're committed to the professional development of our team. We have an agile goal setting process with clear lines for progression. We offer ongoing training through our partner, You Can Now, plus extra budget for external training and provide an environment where it’s safe to make mistakes and learn on the job with support from amazing line managers.
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Wellbeing – We focus on wellbeing by going to the core of the issue. Helping work-life balance with flexible working patterns and generous holiday, resource planning to keep workloads manageable, providing training and internal experts so everyone is equipped with the right skills and easing financial concerns with regular cost of living pay rises and emergency salary support. Everyone is also entitled to six free therapy sessions through our workspace provider.
Equality Statement
Hubbub is committed to providing equality of opportunity both in employment and access to our programmes, events and activities. This means that:
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For all job opportunities and progression, job applicants and employees will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
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The above equally applies to access to development and training opportunities.
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All programmes will be designed to be actively inclusive and accessible to all people.
