Senior Movement Builder

Job title: Senior Movement Builder

Hours: Full time (some flexibility for those interested in part time at 3 days a week). Note we are a 4-day week organisation

Location: Hybrid – expectation of one day a week in shared London office with access throughout the week and some flexibility need to attend meetings in person beyond this

Contract Length: 12-month initial contract

Salary: £50,000

Start Date: February/March 2023

About 

The Good Ancestor Movement exists to support the just transition from extreme and concentrated wealth to a regenerative, redistributive and reparative society.

It is a radical, innovative organisation working to reimagine the private wealth industry and the practices and norms of wealth holders to support the new economy.

We work directly with wealth holders on defining their values and mapping those against wealth practices that uphold rather than undermine them. Our work covers the spectrum of tax, investment, wealth planning, repair and business ownership.

We realise that we cannot – and do not want to – build a single firm that provides advisory to all progressive wealth holders. Instead, our strategy is to help progressive voices within the mainstream industry to be heard and to influence the entire sector. 

One of our key strategies is to support clients to move away from mainstream investments in listed companies and instead direct their money towards community led and owned ventures and initiatives, which centre economic sovereignty and self-determination of communities who have been harmed by the dominant economy. Most of these wealth holders are not looking for financial returns on their investments beyond return of capital.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Movement Builder to work on two key aspects of our work.

The first is building our Progressive Advisor Movement – a movement of people working within the private client industry who want to help the industry to evolve and transform. This is sensitive work for many of those involved who are working across firms and disciplines in a non-competitive way in order to help change the sector (and society more broadly).

This group has access to most of the world’s wealthiest families and the services they offer, the culture they bring and the education and ideas they provide is of huge consequence to the world.

The movement model involves crowd-sourcing ideas and insight from progressive advisors within the industry about how the industry can transform and then platforming those back through media, events, direct dissemination and spokespeople.

We currently have around 60 advisors we are engaging with regularly and are launching our first piece of research in December 2022 alongside a private wealth summit looking at the future of the trusted advisor.

The second part of the work involves community building amongst wealth holders who are interested in being part of the progressive wealth movement.

This will involve engaging former, current and prospective Good Ancestor Movement clients as well as others who are on their own journeys. You will help bring them together to learn, exchange ideas, models and stories and for us to share our own content and platform that of others to this community.

This is an idea that we have consulted with a number of clients about and we have ideas around how to shape but have not yet begun executing.

Key aspects of the role:

Progressive Advisor Movement

• Set up mission, values and culture, including explicitly thinking about anti-oppression, diversity, equity and inclusion and how this dovetails with the Good Ancestor Movement’s values, culture, and policies;
• Run branding and naming session for the Movement as well as how we think about ‘members’;
• Creating a communications and marketing strategy, supporting with streamlining our communications generally, as well as thinking through content creation;
• Data: maintenance of our CRM tool, database management, database strategy, GDPR oversight and confidentiality practice;
• Helping to set up our education programme for Movement members to build their knowledge, confidence and understanding of the new economy and their role in it; 
• Overseeing research design and dissemination strategy; 
• New membership outreach and onboarding;
• Fundraising for the Movement;
• Thinking about how to connect the Movement to the broader ecosystem;
• Setting up, analysing and reacting to surveys for regular reviews of members on experience;
• Putting together member experience map/plan for next 12 months;
• Help host regular monthly membership meetings;
• Running innovation and ideas workshop to reflect on survey results;
• Develop communications plans for research launches;
• Scope and deliver a leadership retreat for members.

Wealth holder membership programme

• Help develop and implement a membership offering for our community of wealth holders;
• Scope, plan and deliver educational programmes and email content for members;
• Support the marketing and onboarding of membership to wealth holders;
• Manage relationships with members and reflect on how the community can best support them;
• Create mechanisms for community building amongst members;
• Support with ongoing communications with members of our community and content creation;
• Scope how this community can best serve the broader new economy ecosystem and manage partnerships to help deliver this;
• Generally setting up and maintaining client relationship and engagement processes.

You will work alongside and have direct access to our CEO and broader team and be able to contribute to the organisation’s bold aims and ambitions within your role.

About You

• You will care deeply about delivery of a fairer economic system and through your lived, academic or work experience will deeply connect with the problems of the current system;
• You will have worked previously in movement, organising or community building work and have experience in bringing people together around communities and ideas;
• You have experience of managing CRM tools and developing communications strategies;
• You will have experience in organising programmes involving speakers, educational sessions, ideas exchanges or newsletters;
• You will have enthusiasm for solidarity economics, a cooperative and broader new economy ecosystem in the UK;
• You will not be tied to how things have always been done and will be excited to explore new and emerging models.

You do not need to have had exposure to either the world of wealth holders or private client advisors previously, so long as you are committed to working with these communities to support them in their role in helping bring about transformation.

If you are interested in the role, we really hope you will consider applying. We understand that the issues we work on disproportionately impact on poorer, marginalised and minoritised communities. We are an organisation led by a Black female founder and CEO and as an inclusive employer that values both lived experience and professional experience, we hope to be able to attract applicants from a range of backgrounds for this important role.

To apply, please send a CV and one page (two max!) note detailing:

• Why you care about the mission of the Good Ancestor Movement;
• Describing the areas you have strongest experience in relating to this role and what you will need most support in;
• What parts of the role description most excite you and why?

Please send this in to [email removed - click apply for more details] by 10am on 17 January 2023.