Launch a social startup in a year
Year Here is an immersive full-time course in social innovation, kicking off on 31st August 2020.
We believe that starting a scalable social business could be your best shot at impact – and that learning on the frontline is where you need to start.
Over 10 months, you’ll gain deep insight into complex social issues and learn to build entrepreneurial solutions to society’s toughest problems – from the housing crisis to knife crime.
If selected to become a Fellow, you will:
Get frontline insights. You’ll spend the first 5 months working with the people hit hardest by austerity and gaining deep user insight. To deepen your systemic understanding, you’ll also work on briefs set by clients like Crisis, the NHS and the Greater London Authority.
Meet your co-founders. Our Fellows have an average of 7 years’ career experience in fields ranging from biochemistry to law, and from journalism to engineering. They will become your support network, your collaborators and, ultimately, your co-founders.
Build scalable ventures. You’ll test and build your own social business, with the potential to progress to our Incubator and launch it into the world. Venture teams are guided by expert partners like the Boston Consulting Group, ForwardPMX and BNYMellon.
Learn from expert faculty. You’ll get a personal mentor and receive tonnes of training from a faculty of more than 80 social innovation leaders – from award-winning social designer Lauren Currie OBE to Nishant Lalwani, Director of Investments at Omidyar Network .
Beyond Year Here
Finish the programme with a venture and you’ll get seed funding, business support, desk-space and client introductions to launch your business.
Our alumni have launched 33 social ventures including:
Cracked It , the tech repair service staffed by ex-gang members. Social Enterprise of the Year 2018 and 2019.
Birdsong the feminist fashion brand selling wardrobe stapes made by women paid a fair wage. Featured in Vogue, Dazed and Vice.
Appt , a HealthTech business that uses behavioural economics to help patients manage their long-term conditions – with multi-year investment from Innovate UK.
Chatterbox , an online language tuition platform powered by refugee talent, featured in The Economist, Tech Crunch and The Times.
Those that don’t start a venture join other fast-growing social startups like The Difference, BeyondMe, Switchback and Matr.
Our impact
Since launching in 2013 at 10 Downing St, we have worked with 212 Fellows who collectively have contributed 133,200 hours to crucial frontline services.
Our 33 alumni ventures have raised millions in investment and reached over 5,000 service users to date.
No course fees
Unlike a Master's degree or MBA, we have no tuition fee. This is a reimagination of higher education. Rather than spending a year in a lecture hall and paying £10,000 for the privilege, we challenge you to learn by doing – working on real social impact projects. Our partners pay us to be involved and that covers your tuition costs.
To widen access to the programme we have a small number of means-tested bursaries available, and offer additional support through TfL discounts and recommendations for flexible paid work and affordable accommodation.
Selection Process
We’re looking for people with a solid professional skillset and an entrepreneurial track record. This doesn’t mean you have to have started your own business before but you will need to demonstrate that you have a bias towards action. Drive, passion for social justice and a strong learning orientation are also essential.
It’s a 3-stage process: a written application, video interview and half-day selection workshop. Typically, 1 in 10 applicants secure a place on the programme.
Apply by midnight Sunday 26 April 2020.
Mar 09, 2020
Mid-Career (3-8 years)
Launch a social startup in a year
Year Here is an immersive full-time course in social innovation, kicking off on 31st August 2020.
We believe that starting a scalable social business could be your best shot at impact – and that learning on the frontline is where you need to start.
Over 10 months, you’ll gain deep insight into complex social issues and learn to build entrepreneurial solutions to society’s toughest problems – from the housing crisis to knife crime.
If selected to become a Fellow, you will:
Get frontline insights. You’ll spend the first 5 months working with the people hit hardest by austerity and gaining deep user insight. To deepen your systemic understanding, you’ll also work on briefs set by clients like Crisis, the NHS and the Greater London Authority.
Meet your co-founders. Our Fellows have an average of 7 years’ career experience in fields ranging from biochemistry to law, and from journalism to engineering. They will become your support network, your collaborators and, ultimately, your co-founders.
Build scalable ventures. You’ll test and build your own social business, with the potential to progress to our Incubator and launch it into the world. Venture teams are guided by expert partners like the Boston Consulting Group, ForwardPMX and BNYMellon.
Learn from expert faculty. You’ll get a personal mentor and receive tonnes of training from a faculty of more than 80 social innovation leaders – from award-winning social designer Lauren Currie OBE to Nishant Lalwani, Director of Investments at Omidyar Network .
Beyond Year Here
Finish the programme with a venture and you’ll get seed funding, business support, desk-space and client introductions to launch your business.
Our alumni have launched 33 social ventures including:
Cracked It , the tech repair service staffed by ex-gang members. Social Enterprise of the Year 2018 and 2019.
Birdsong the feminist fashion brand selling wardrobe stapes made by women paid a fair wage. Featured in Vogue, Dazed and Vice.
Appt , a HealthTech business that uses behavioural economics to help patients manage their long-term conditions – with multi-year investment from Innovate UK.
Chatterbox , an online language tuition platform powered by refugee talent, featured in The Economist, Tech Crunch and The Times.
Those that don’t start a venture join other fast-growing social startups like The Difference, BeyondMe, Switchback and Matr.
Our impact
Since launching in 2013 at 10 Downing St, we have worked with 212 Fellows who collectively have contributed 133,200 hours to crucial frontline services.
Our 33 alumni ventures have raised millions in investment and reached over 5,000 service users to date.
No course fees
Unlike a Master's degree or MBA, we have no tuition fee. This is a reimagination of higher education. Rather than spending a year in a lecture hall and paying £10,000 for the privilege, we challenge you to learn by doing – working on real social impact projects. Our partners pay us to be involved and that covers your tuition costs.
To widen access to the programme we have a small number of means-tested bursaries available, and offer additional support through TfL discounts and recommendations for flexible paid work and affordable accommodation.
Selection Process
We’re looking for people with a solid professional skillset and an entrepreneurial track record. This doesn’t mean you have to have started your own business before but you will need to demonstrate that you have a bias towards action. Drive, passion for social justice and a strong learning orientation are also essential.
It’s a 3-stage process: a written application, video interview and half-day selection workshop. Typically, 1 in 10 applicants secure a place on the programme.
Apply by midnight Sunday 26 April 2020.
Emitwise – Software Engineer
Emitwise is a fast-growing start-up that uses machine learning to help large businesses monitor and manage their carbon footprint in real-time. Our mission is to help facilitate the global transition towards carbon neutrality. We need unique perspectives from diverse people to transform how companies around the world visualise, track and reduce their carbon emissions.
We believe the most impactful change to the way companies strategize in the near future, is going to come from their ability to easily understand the carbon cost of their past and future actions. Realising new technologies and integrations with a host of systems to make strategic decisions is what will drive companies to achieve a carbon neutral world.
Reporting to the Chief Technical Officer, you will have ownership and autonomy over large architectural decisions, design, and deployment of services.
THE JOB:
As a Software Engineer at Emitwise, you will work alongside a product and carbon accounting team to empower our customers to reduce their carbon emissions. You will frequently find yourself operating with new languages, concepts and solving fascinating problems.
Your work would be critical to Emitwise’s mission success.
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
Help shape the future of a fast-growing Engineering team
You'll be based in London with the rest of the team. We welcome international applications who are willing and able to relocate, and will cover reallocation expenses.
MUST HAVE:
You will have experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python, Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript or Go
You will have the interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed
You will utilise your experience in front and back-end programming languages to develop our web products
You will utilise your back-end and machine learning skills to develop our automatic carbon accounting system
You will utilise your knowledge of scalable infrastructure to deploy our products and ensure they’re always available for our customers
You will have experience working on Unix / Linux environments
BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
Willingness to work rigorously to meet tight deadlines and help sustain the organisation’s high-growth habits
You will establish technical requirements from our product team
NICE TO HAVE:
Experience working in a fast-growing start-up environment.
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious candidate interested in being at the forefront of building a socially responsible digital economy. The organisation offers a strong flexible working policy.
Fair and generous equity is available and will be discussed as part of the application.
If you have the required skills, please email us at george@emitwise.com
Mar 27, 2020
Early Career (0-3 years)
Emitwise – Software Engineer
Emitwise is a fast-growing start-up that uses machine learning to help large businesses monitor and manage their carbon footprint in real-time. Our mission is to help facilitate the global transition towards carbon neutrality. We need unique perspectives from diverse people to transform how companies around the world visualise, track and reduce their carbon emissions.
We believe the most impactful change to the way companies strategize in the near future, is going to come from their ability to easily understand the carbon cost of their past and future actions. Realising new technologies and integrations with a host of systems to make strategic decisions is what will drive companies to achieve a carbon neutral world.
Reporting to the Chief Technical Officer, you will have ownership and autonomy over large architectural decisions, design, and deployment of services.
THE JOB:
As a Software Engineer at Emitwise, you will work alongside a product and carbon accounting team to empower our customers to reduce their carbon emissions. You will frequently find yourself operating with new languages, concepts and solving fascinating problems.
Your work would be critical to Emitwise’s mission success.
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
Help shape the future of a fast-growing Engineering team
You'll be based in London with the rest of the team. We welcome international applications who are willing and able to relocate, and will cover reallocation expenses.
MUST HAVE:
You will have experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python, Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript or Go
You will have the interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed
You will utilise your experience in front and back-end programming languages to develop our web products
You will utilise your back-end and machine learning skills to develop our automatic carbon accounting system
You will utilise your knowledge of scalable infrastructure to deploy our products and ensure they’re always available for our customers
You will have experience working on Unix / Linux environments
BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
Willingness to work rigorously to meet tight deadlines and help sustain the organisation’s high-growth habits
You will establish technical requirements from our product team
NICE TO HAVE:
Experience working in a fast-growing start-up environment.
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious candidate interested in being at the forefront of building a socially responsible digital economy. The organisation offers a strong flexible working policy.
Fair and generous equity is available and will be discussed as part of the application.
If you have the required skills, please email us at george@emitwise.com
As a Diversity Business Partner, you will operate as a trusted advisor embedded deeply in the business, and consult on the needs of the organization and design relevant solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional partners to provide thought leadership, manage the business relationship, and set and execute on initiatives to help the business make progress to diversity and inclusion goals. You will be the face of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) team to the business, cascading DEI products and services to the business and identifying partner's unique needs to effectively customize...
Mar 27, 2020
Experienced (8+ years)
As a Diversity Business Partner, you will operate as a trusted advisor embedded deeply in the business, and consult on the needs of the organization and design relevant solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional partners to provide thought leadership, manage the business relationship, and set and execute on initiatives to help the business make progress to diversity and inclusion goals. You will be the face of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) team to the business, cascading DEI products and services to the business and identifying partner's unique needs to effectively customize...
As the Manager, Corporate Responsibility and Integration you will play an important role in strengthening T-Mobile’s position as a socially responsibly company by shaping enterprise-wide priorities and goals, working with business units to create a portfolio of initiatives that support strategic objectives and by leading projects and initiatives that create impact. This role requires somebody that thinks strategically, can build effective internal and external partnerships, brings business acumen to decision-making, thrives in entrepreneurial environments and who isn’t afraid to push the boundaries of what’s possible to change the world for GOOD...
Mar 23, 2020
Mid-Career (3-8 years)
As the Manager, Corporate Responsibility and Integration you will play an important role in strengthening T-Mobile’s position as a socially responsibly company by shaping enterprise-wide priorities and goals, working with business units to create a portfolio of initiatives that support strategic objectives and by leading projects and initiatives that create impact. This role requires somebody that thinks strategically, can build effective internal and external partnerships, brings business acumen to decision-making, thrives in entrepreneurial environments and who isn’t afraid to push the boundaries of what’s possible to change the world for GOOD...
At Coursera, we firmly believe in achieving tangible results for underserved populations. We’re looking for a seasoned, results-driven Social Impact Manager to set the vision, business strategies, and meaningful programs that ensure everyone, everywhere truly has access to high-quality education and opportunity. As the manager of our Social Impact team, you will be responsible for understanding the greatest issues facing underserved populations across our society today, defining how Coursera will genuinely move the needle on several of them, and strategically working across Coursera to make that impact a reality...
Mar 23, 2020
Mid-Career (3-8 years)
At Coursera, we firmly believe in achieving tangible results for underserved populations. We’re looking for a seasoned, results-driven Social Impact Manager to set the vision, business strategies, and meaningful programs that ensure everyone, everywhere truly has access to high-quality education and opportunity. As the manager of our Social Impact team, you will be responsible for understanding the greatest issues facing underserved populations across our society today, defining how Coursera will genuinely move the needle on several of them, and strategically working across Coursera to make that impact a reality...
Cisco is looking for a visionary, experienced leader who will lead two key pillars of our circular economy program passionate about operations and the lifecycle management of our equipment. You will be working collaboratively to set strategy, identify and align new opportunities, build business cases, and implement new operating models. You will build and manage strong cross-functional relationships at all levels of the business to enable a successful circular economy program for all of Cisco...
Mar 18, 2020
Mid-Career (3-8 years)
Cisco is looking for a visionary, experienced leader who will lead two key pillars of our circular economy program passionate about operations and the lifecycle management of our equipment. You will be working collaboratively to set strategy, identify and align new opportunities, build business cases, and implement new operating models. You will build and manage strong cross-functional relationships at all levels of the business to enable a successful circular economy program for all of Cisco...
Our qualified candidate will program manage the creation and oversight, as well as ensure flawless project execution, for our annual STEM Contest – Solve for Tomorrow. This Flagship Corporate Citizenship Program encourages students to use Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math to solve a problem in their community. They will manage all partner relationships (contracts, invoices, milestone calls, etc.), event management for program events, and research to support program objectives...
Mar 18, 2020
Mid-Career (3-8 years)
Our qualified candidate will program manage the creation and oversight, as well as ensure flawless project execution, for our annual STEM Contest – Solve for Tomorrow. This Flagship Corporate Citizenship Program encourages students to use Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math to solve a problem in their community. They will manage all partner relationships (contracts, invoices, milestone calls, etc.), event management for program events, and research to support program objectives...
As an Inclusion and Diversity (I&D) Business Partnering Manager, you will develop a strategy in partnership with the business to identify processes to drive I&D integration across the talent lifecycle (e.g., recruiting, leadership development, promotions, retention and other talent strategies) into the business and region. You will ensure analytical insights are integrated and used to drive planning and programming within the LOBs you support, increasing accountability and measuring the impact of key initiatives. You will also manage a team of I&D BPs to provide direction, ensure activities are focused and aligned to I&D goals, and efforts are managed to scale globally...
Mar 18, 2020
Experienced (8+ years)
As an Inclusion and Diversity (I&D) Business Partnering Manager, you will develop a strategy in partnership with the business to identify processes to drive I&D integration across the talent lifecycle (e.g., recruiting, leadership development, promotions, retention and other talent strategies) into the business and region. You will ensure analytical insights are integrated and used to drive planning and programming within the LOBs you support, increasing accountability and measuring the impact of key initiatives. You will also manage a team of I&D BPs to provide direction, ensure activities are focused and aligned to I&D goals, and efforts are managed to scale globally...
The Coordinator, Philanthropy & Volunteer Engagement is responsible for key administrative duties that help drive employee engagement with our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. This person also serves as an internal spokesperson for CSR programs, building enthusiasm and engagement amongst associates. This role owns key administrative tasks for the CSR team, providing support; handling donation requests (from customers, employees and other charitable organizations), taking the lead on payments processing, conducting day-to-day logistics for the employee matching gift program, grants programs, and volunteer for vacation. Coordinates employee volunteerism/engagement events and projects as assigned (ex: Day of Caring, Toys for Tots celebration, culture committee events, Camp Blackbaud, etc.)...
Mar 16, 2020
Early Career (0-3 years)
The Coordinator, Philanthropy & Volunteer Engagement is responsible for key administrative duties that help drive employee engagement with our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. This person also serves as an internal spokesperson for CSR programs, building enthusiasm and engagement amongst associates. This role owns key administrative tasks for the CSR team, providing support; handling donation requests (from customers, employees and other charitable organizations), taking the lead on payments processing, conducting day-to-day logistics for the employee matching gift program, grants programs, and volunteer for vacation. Coordinates employee volunteerism/engagement events and projects as assigned (ex: Day of Caring, Toys for Tots celebration, culture committee events, Camp Blackbaud, etc.)...
