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.
As part of our small and strong CSR team. we are looking for a confident and motivated Charity Partnership Manager to join our growing CSR team. You will be responsible for developing and managing charity and CSR partnerships which will deliver positive environmental or societal impacts and engage and empower our customers, colleagues and communities. In addition, you will be developing an exciting new strategy to help us get closer to and more engaged with the local communities we serve...
Mar 30, 2020
Early Career (0-3 years)
As part of our small and strong CSR team. we are looking for a confident and motivated Charity Partnership Manager to join our growing CSR team. You will be responsible for developing and managing charity and CSR partnerships which will deliver positive environmental or societal impacts and engage and empower our customers, colleagues and communities. In addition, you will be developing an exciting new strategy to help us get closer to and more engaged with the local communities we serve...
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
We are looking at bringing a Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, who will be responsible for defining and developing the strategies which underpin our CSR objectives. You will conduct research, come up with ideas, develop policies, create detailed plans, build relationships with partner organisations, and then implement and coordinate a range of activities and initiatives which are designed to have a positive impact on the environment and local communities...
Mar 23, 2020
Mid-Career (3-8 years)
We are looking at bringing a Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, who will be responsible for defining and developing the strategies which underpin our CSR objectives. You will conduct research, come up with ideas, develop policies, create detailed plans, build relationships with partner organisations, and then implement and coordinate a range of activities and initiatives which are designed to have a positive impact on the environment and local communities...
Be the internal expert and first point of contact related to Sustainable Agriculture and Animal welfare, and work as a SME, bringin in-depth knowledge to a specific projects; Act as Project manager for sustainability related projects, managing cross-functional teams. Key projects include leading the implementation of the FSA standard with a focus on bulk and co-packed crops, support the Agriculture team implementing the FSA standard for contracted farmers, lead on Responsible Soy and Animal Welfare from a sustainability point of view...
Mar 20, 2020
Mid-Career (3-8 years)
Be the internal expert and first point of contact related to Sustainable Agriculture and Animal welfare, and work as a SME, bringin in-depth knowledge to a specific projects; Act as Project manager for sustainability related projects, managing cross-functional teams. Key projects include leading the implementation of the FSA standard with a focus on bulk and co-packed crops, support the Agriculture team implementing the FSA standard for contracted farmers, lead on Responsible Soy and Animal Welfare from a sustainability point of view...
This Sustainability/EHS Project Coordinator role is a new full-time position created at the International Aluminium Institute to support key projects that deliver benefits to member companies through: improved practices within the industry; knowledge transfer; improved information, and demonstration of the benefits of the industry and its products...
Mar 20, 2020
Early Career (0-3 years)
This Sustainability/EHS Project Coordinator role is a new full-time position created at the International Aluminium Institute to support key projects that deliver benefits to member companies through: improved practices within the industry; knowledge transfer; improved information, and demonstration of the benefits of the industry and its products...
We're looking for an ambitious and experienced Sustainability Consultant to join our growing Sustainability & CSR consulting group. As a fast-growing consultancy service we have opportunities in the Sustainability & CSR field where we offer comprehensive support to a wide range of UK businesses. This role will be instrumental in delivering a range of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability projects on time and to budget, as well as to support the development and growth of the business. Working in close partnership with the Director of the team you will be responsible for key clients and projects...
Mar 20, 2020
Mid-Career (3-8 years)
We're looking for an ambitious and experienced Sustainability Consultant to join our growing Sustainability & CSR consulting group. As a fast-growing consultancy service we have opportunities in the Sustainability & CSR field where we offer comprehensive support to a wide range of UK businesses. This role will be instrumental in delivering a range of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability projects on time and to budget, as well as to support the development and growth of the business. Working in close partnership with the Director of the team you will be responsible for key clients and projects...
Inclusion and CSR are priorities for the firm. The firm’s inclusion focus is on ensuring diversity throughout the firm, from entry level to partnership. The job holder will assist in the development and delivery of a comprehensive Inclusion plan comprising attraction, recruitment, progression and promotion of individuals across all areas of the business. They will also assist in the development and implementation of the CSR strategy, supporting significant growth in pro bono activities across all areas of the business as well as promoting opportunities internally and externally...
Mar 18, 2020
Mid-Career (3-8 years)
Inclusion and CSR are priorities for the firm. The firm’s inclusion focus is on ensuring diversity throughout the firm, from entry level to partnership. The job holder will assist in the development and delivery of a comprehensive Inclusion plan comprising attraction, recruitment, progression and promotion of individuals across all areas of the business. They will also assist in the development and implementation of the CSR strategy, supporting significant growth in pro bono activities across all areas of the business as well as promoting opportunities internally and externally...
We're looking for a commercially focused Packaging Sustainability Manager to lead the development of the right business model for collection of crisp packets in the UK & enabling collection across key markets in East particularly Poland, Romania & Turkey...
Mar 16, 2020
Mid-Career (3-8 years)
We're looking for a commercially focused Packaging Sustainability Manager to lead the development of the right business model for collection of crisp packets in the UK & enabling collection across key markets in East particularly Poland, Romania & Turkey...
We are looking for a communications specialist to help us tell powerful stories that bring Canon’s commitment to social and environmental issues to life. Using our corporate philosophy of Kyosei: living and working together for the common good, we want to communicate on our two priorities: Imaging for Good and Circular Economy...
Mar 16, 2020
Early Career (0-3 years)
We are looking for a communications specialist to help us tell powerful stories that bring Canon’s commitment to social and environmental issues to life. Using our corporate philosophy of Kyosei: living and working together for the common good, we want to communicate on our two priorities: Imaging for Good and Circular Economy...
