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However you identify, we would like to hear from you. In our commitment to continue to diversify our teams, freelance staff and programmes, we are particularly keen to hear from people who identify as:
being from racialised and minoritised communities*
and/or LGBTQ+
and/or disabled, including learning and non-visible disabilities
If you require any reasonable adjustments during our recruitment processes, including assistance with reading this page or documents linked to below, please contact [email protected].
Skilled volunteering
A unique opportunity to make a meaningful difference while developing your own skills and networks.
Skilled volunteers bring real-world expertise that empowers social entrepreneurs to thrive. Volunteers help equip changemakers to build sustainable ventures that create positive social impact. This collaborative support accelerates the growth and resilience of entrepreneurs and strengthens communities and systems across the UK. Skilled volunteers play a vital role in advancing SSE’s mission to foster a more just and sustainable society by enabling social entrepreneurs to solve complex challenges and improve lives at scale.
Jobs at SSE
Learning manager
Salary: From £38,333 per annum (pro-rata)
Hours: 21 – 35 hours a week, depending on your availability (FTE is 35 hours).
Contract: Permanent
Location: Flexible, UK based
The purpose of this role is to lead the design and delivery of learning programmes that help social entrepreneurs create lasting impact. You’ll take direct responsibility for facilitating cohorts as well as leading 1-2-1 coaching and diagnostics, and delivering Action Learning Sets, SSE’s long-standing peer-coaching method (training provided). You’ll hold accountability for the quality of programmes allocated to you. You’ll work alongside our learning facilitators and our learning and enterprise development managers to ensure every programme stays true to our action learning approach.
As SSE deepens its focus on commercial acumen and scale-up support, you’ll help make sure that direction reaches every cohort you work with — keeping your programmes as sharp, practical and impactful as everything else we do. You’ll bring your own commercial awareness to how you facilitate, and build relationships with contributors, speakers and specialists who can bring real-world commercial expertise into the room for your cohorts.
You’ll succeed in this role if you believe in what social entrepreneurship can achieve and want to support social ventures to grow and create more impact in their communities and beyond.
Deadline to apply: 9am, 8th September
Learning & enterprise development manager
Salary: From £43,116 per annum pro-rata + 5% pension
Hours: 21 – 35 hours a week, depending on your availability (FTE is 35 hours)
Contract: Permanent
Location: Flexible, UK based
Social entrepreneurs scaling their ventures face a specific set of challenges including income generation, hiring, governance, hard calls about growth and risk, all alongside scaling their social impact. We’re recruiting learning and enterprise development managers who’ve lived that journey themselves, to bring first-hand credibility and challenge directly to the entrepreneurs on our scale-up and scale-up-plus programmes.
You’ll hold ownership of SSE’s scale-up approach, shaping our learning content on strategy, profitability and the systems that hold a growing venture together – grounded in what actually works, not just what’s written down. Facilitation sits at the heart of this role. You’ll design and deliver learning programmes and group sessions for cohorts of entrepreneurs as well as leading 1-2-1 coaching and diagnostics, and delivering Action Learning Sets, SSE’s long-standing peer-coaching method (training provided).
We’re looking for people who’ve founded or led a VCSE with an annual turnover of £100,000 or more and held financial accountability such as statutory reporting to the Charity Commission and, where relevant, Companies House, reporting to a board or funders, and making hard calls about growth, income and risk.
You’ll succeed in this role if you believe in what social entrepreneurship can achieve and want to turn your experience into supporting social ventures to scale and create more impact in their communities and beyond.
Deadline to apply: 9am, 8th September
Benefits of working at SSE
- 25 days’ annual leave + UK bank holidays
- 5% employer contribution to your pension
- Attend SSE courses & learning sessions for free
- Group learning opportunities (e.g. productivity training, learning about inclusion)
- Annual development plans to set personal and professional goals
- All staff have access to Health Assured (employee assistance programme)
- Opportunities to train in First Aid and Mental Health First Aid
- Regular wellbeing initiatives hosted by our Wellbeing Committee
- Free eyecare vouchers
- Certified Disability Confident Employer
- Committed to the EW Inclusive Cultures Pledge
- Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Plan 2021-24 commits us to creating an inclusive culture
- Regular online socials & weekly catch-ups
- Team away days twice a year
- Flexible working is welcomed!
- Teams based around the UK (as well as in India & Canada)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Annual season ticket loan
We have a range of staff groups and committees that you might be interested in joining, including:
- Climate Action Working Group
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Group
