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Issue 846, Sun 31 May, 2026

Dear Escapees,

June has a way of making people a bit more honest. Maybe it’s the light, maybe it’s the heat, maybe it’s just that by this point in the year most of the energetic fiction we told ourselves in January has started to fray at the edges. The gym plan has gone quiet, the inbox is still breeding, and whatever vague promise we made to ourselves about “getting on top of things” is now sitting in the same pile as the rest of life.

There is something useful about that. Once a bit of the performance drops away, people tend to get clearer about what they actually want from work. Not in some cinematic “I’m changing everything” way, more in the slower, more recognisable sense of noticing what gives you energy, what flattens you, what you have somehow got used to, and what no longer feels like a particularly good use of your time on earth.

The jobs below are for anyone in that sort of mood. Not necessarily ready to blow up their life, just ready to be slightly more honest about what they do and don’t want from it.

Happy Escaping,

Team Escape

• Job Title: Head of Growth

  Organisation: Oxygen Conservation

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• Job Title: Digital Growth Manager

  Organisation: The Labour Party

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• Job Title: Talent Development Lead

  Organisation: World of Books

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• Job Title: Marketing Lead

  Organisation: Hedley Studios

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• Job Title: Head of Operations

  Organisation: Centre for British Progress

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• Job Title: NPD and Technical Assistant

  Organisation: Wildfarmed

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• Job Title: Social Media and Content Manager

  Organisation: Good Tuesday

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• Job Title: Head of People

  Organisation: The MATS Program

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• Job Title: Digital Communications Manager

  Organisation: Living Wage Foundation

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• Job Title: Operations Executive

  Organisation: Making Stuff Better

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