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Issue 849, Sun 21 June, 2026

Dear Escapees,

Some jobs make you feel bigger and some make you feel smaller, and most people know exactly what that means even if it sounds slightly abstract written down. It is not really about salary or prestige, not first and foremost. It is more physical than that. Whether your shoulders go up on a Sunday evening. Whether your mind quietly leaves the room halfway through the day. Whether you feel more like yourself in your work, or less.

The roles below are not all trying to save the world before lunch, but they do lean towards organisations where the work appears to have some pulse to it, and where being good at your job does not seem to require becoming a flatter version of yourself.

A good job does not have to complete you. That would be an absurd amount of pressure to put on a payroll system. But it should, ideally, feel compatible with being a full human being. It should not require you to file down the parts of yourself that make life feel interesting in the first place.

Happy Escaping,

Team Escape

• Job Title: Assistant Learning & Development Manager

  Organisation: Song Saa Foundation

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• Job Title: Director of Estates

  Organisation: Eden Project

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• Job Title: Talent Ops Lead

  Organisation: Octopus Energy

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• Job Title: Growth Lead

  Organisation: Grow Patiently

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• Job Title: Clore Social Leadership Programmes

  Organisation: Clore Social Leadership

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• Job Title: Programme Manager | Robotics Charity

  Organisation: FIRST UK

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• Job Title: Finance Associate (UK & US)

  Organisation: Impact Ops

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• Job Title: Project Coordinator

  Organisation: Community Energy England

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• Job Title: Chief of Staff

  Organisation: Revalue Nature

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