Our new way to search for purposeful work

Issue 864, Sun 4 October, 2026

Dear Escapees,

The Nobel Prize announcements begin today. For anyone expecting a call from Stockholm, keep your phone handy. For the rest of us, we’ve found ten jobs below.

The original instruction in Alfred Nobel’s will was to reward work bringing “the greatest benefit to humankind”. Quite a brief. You can imagine the recruitment agency asking whether he could be a little more specific.

It’s a phrase worth spending a minute with, though, particularly when looking for work. Applications involve so much explaining why an organisation should want you that your own questions can get squeezed out. You’ve written 500 words about your experience, found an example of managing competing priorities and remembered your password. Somewhere in there, you were also hoping to work out whether you actually wanted to help this organisation do what it does.

Who would benefit if you did the job well? What would become possible? The answer might be several steps removed from your desk, but knowing it can make a difference to how you feel about spending your days there.

You can take those questions seriously without expecting your next role to come with a medal. Salary and working hours still matter, and finding a job is hard enough without adding “single-handedly improve civilisation” to the requirements.

Escape to Impact is for experienced professionals who want to investigate where their skills could do the most good and begin making a move into that work. Applications are open, and you don’t need to arrive with the destination already decided.

Explore Escape to Impact and apply >



Happy Escaping,

Team Escape

• Job Title: Fieldshaper Program

  Organisation: Elevate Philanthropy

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• Job Title: Head of Strategy & Operations

  Organisation: Generality Labs

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• Job Title: Interim Partnerships Manager (Ecosystem)

  Organisation: Oak National Academy

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• Job Title: Executive Director

  Organisation: RICH MIX

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• Job Title: Special Projects Director

  Organisation: Rethink Priorities

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• Job Title: Marketing Executive

  Organisation: TALO

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• Job Title: Head of Programmes

  Organisation: Round Our Way

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• Job Title: Senior Operations Associate

  Organisation: ZOE

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• Job Title: Inclusive Innovation Lead

  Organisation: The Centre for Global Equality Limited

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• Job Title: Chief of Staff

  Organisation: Only One

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