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Issue 862, Sun 20 September, 2026

Dear Escapees,

New York is currently having a very large meeting about the future of the planet.

Climate Week NYC has begun, with more than 1,000 events happening across the city. There are conversations about energy and buildings, food, health, finance, AI, transport, supply chains and pretty much every other bit of modern life you can think of.

Spend five minutes looking through the programme and you end up bouncing from finance to food systems to transport to health without really noticing. Climate is not really one sector at all. It runs through almost everything.

Which is useful if you’ve ever looked at a field you care about and thought: yes, but what would I actually do there? Someone still has to build the technology, raise the money, run the team, change policy, sort the operations, communicate the thing properly and, inevitably, wrestle an appalling spreadsheet into submission.

A lot of people already have years of experience doing exactly those things. The harder bit can be seeing where that experience might fit once you step outside the industry you happen to have spent it in.

Applications for Escape to Impact opened last week. It’s our new programme for experienced professionals who want to use what they’re already good at to work on some of the world’s most important problems, and find a real route into that work.

Explore Escape to Impact and apply >

Worth keeping in mind as you look through this week’s Top 10 too. Have a nose through the organisations, not just the roles. There may be somewhere your experience makes sense that you hadn’t thought to look before.

Happy Escaping,

Team Escape

• Job Title: Head of Yes

  Organisation: Virgin

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• Job Title: On Purpose Associate - A leadership programme for social & environmental impact

  Organisation: On Purpose London

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• Job Title: Head of Learning [Maternity Cover]

  Organisation: The Beam Network

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• Job Title: Rathbones Institute – Associate

  Organisation: Rathbones

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• Job Title: Senior Investigative Researcher

  Organisation: The Fawcett Society

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• Job Title: Digital Growth Marketing Manager

  Organisation: Choose a Challenge

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• Job Title: Director of Finance

  Organisation: Earthshot Prize

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• Job Title: Programme Lead - Skills

  Organisation: Design Council

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• Job Title: Head of Supported Housing

  Organisation: The Housing Network

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• Job Title: Senior Director, Finance & Operations (f/m/d)

  Organisation: Patagonia

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