APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.
Team Vacancies:
Deadline to apply: 9.00am 14th July 2025
Head of Operations
Your main role is to be a senior member of the PIRC team, holding responsibility for overseeing PIRC’s strategic direction and vision, and leading on organisational and operational development to ensure the financial health of the organisation.
Take a look at the job pack for more information on the role and how to apply – Head of Operations.
Head of Programmes
Your main role is to be a senior member of the PIRC team, holding responsibility for overseeing PIRC’s strategic direction and vision, programme delivery, representing the organisation at internal and external events, and working with the Head of Operations to ensure the financial health of the organisation.
Take a look at the job pack for more information on the role and how to apply – Head of Programmes.
These roles mark a new era in PIRC’s experimental organisational culture.
PIRC is transitioning away from a flat structure, where every team member had equal input and decision-making power in the direction and running of the organisation, and where many of the tasks related to general organisational management as well as project work were shared.
We wish to maintain an ethos of collaboration and sharing power, so all staff will maintain a responsibility for contributing to the organisation’s direction, values and internal policies. The Heads Of Roles will hold responsibility for ensuring that everyone participates in decision-making processes, as well as holding the organisation accountable and driving progress.
We’d love to hear from you if you are interested in the challenge of developing anti-oppressive accountability structures, and believe deeply in empowering staff to work collectively.
Freelance Fundraiser
Deadline to apply: 9.00am 14th July 2025
PIRC are looking for a freelance fundraiser to lead six months of trust fundraising to support a programme of work to diversify, democratise and deepen civil society’s work on narrative change.
More information and how to apply can be found here.
About PIRC
PIRC works to support our movements—for equality, anti-oppression, and climate justice—to tell better stories for a just world:
- We connect diverse groups, in participatory spaces, to share knowledge, develop strategies and strengthen movements;
- We carry out strategic research to support this work;
- And we create and openly share resources and tools for developing better strategy and communications.
For us, this work is not just about communication: our practices must reflect and strengthen the stories we tell, and the values that underpin them. Our approach is strongly rooted in the social sciences, and is led by principles of:
- liberation
- connection
- participation
- creativity
We advocate an approach that can be used by grassroots groups with limited financial resources, who often find themselves excluded by mainstream strategic communications work.
We are a small charity and we share the responsibilities involved in managing and developing our organisation, with support from our fabulous trustees. We are all expected to take an active role in developing our strategy, projects, and ways of working – and we all have equal decision-making power in these areas.
Our office is based in beautiful Machynlleth, on the edge of the Snowdonia national park, but we also work remotely. There are currently four of us (plus Poppy, the dog) and we generally work a three- or four-day week because we think it’s good for us.
For more information about our work, see publicinterest.org.uk.
