About Foxglove

Foxglove is a litigation and campaigning nonprofit that exists to make the use of technology fair. When governments and major tech companies use technology to abuse their power, we investigate, litigate and campaign to make it right.

Big Tech companies have become so large – gobbling up a huge slice of the global marketplace and an unprecedented treasure hoard of user data – that they’re now more powerful than many states. The harmful effects of this concentration of power are everywhere – threats to our democracy and our privacy, decimated worker’s rights and platforms rife with disinformation and hate. Governments are ploughing ahead with the use of algorithms and mass data systems to cut costs and increase efficiency often resulting in digital tools that entrench unfairness and leave the most vulnerable in society in crisis. These problems will be supercharged by the power of Generative AI, which is already being consumed by the Big Tech incumbents.

Foxglove works to bring the rule of law to the tech and AI giants who have upended our public squares, workplaces, and social lives. We fight to reduce these anti-democratic behemoths’ size and power and we challenge them for abusing their workers. We also work to ensure public bodies use data and algorithms openly, fairly and legally.

We have a strong track record. We’ve launched landmark cases seeking structural changes to big tech’s harmful business models, supported 180+ Facebook content moderators fired for trying to form a union to sue Facebook and their outsourcing company, Sama – winning world-first judgements. We helped launch Africa’s first content moderators' union and are urging UK and EU regulators to halt Big Tech’s maneuvers to hoover up generative AI as it has the rest of our online world.

We forced disclosure of secret contracts between tech giants and the NHS, stopped a racist Home Office visa streaming algorithm, helped make grading fair for UK A level students, forced the government to pause the NHS Data Grab and challenged the Department of Work and Pension’s algorithm for unfairly flagging disabled people for benefit fraud investigations.

We are a growing team of lawyers, communications experts, and campaigners. Our work is global, and we work in partnership with lawyers, civil society, unions, and impacted people.

The role

You will be responsible for supporting our directors with travel and diary management and for providing operations support across the organisation. This role will work closely with the whole team but particularly with our part-time Operations Coordinator.

Responsibilities include:

Finance

· Ensure smooth financial administration (collating invoices, gathering expense receipts and processing them in our accounting software).

· Work with our external accountant to process payroll.

· Work with providers to manage tax and payroll for those working abroad.

Team support

· Ensure the smooth running of our remote office, including organising team days and retreats and supporting staff to work effectively remotely.

· Manage our relationship with our external IT provider.

· General team support (IT, equipment, subscriptions, inventory management, mobile contracts, travel and security).

Director support

· Manage the diaries of our three directors.

· Support our directors with travel and accommodation including visas, flights, hotels, taxis and itineraries as required.

· Process director’s expenses.

Other

· Provide the highest level of public communications, ensuring efficient and comprehensive responses to enquiries from the public by phone, letter and email.

· Assist our communications team with booking interviews for partners, clients and Foxglove spokespeople.

· Assist with routine website maintenance.

· Ensure our donor management database is up to date.

Requirements and skills

· Exceptional organisational and diary management skills.

· Experience in financial administration.

· Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

· The ability to manage competing tasks and prioritise an everchanging workload.

· The ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

· Problem-solving and decision-making skills.

· The ability to work autonomously.

· The ability to build relationships at all levels across the organisation and with external contacts.

· A warm and sensitive manner when supporting Foxglove’s clients and partners.

Other information about the role

The role is permanent. Our team works remotely, and this role can be based anywhere. The post-holder will be required to work within or close to UK office hours. Our team travels monthly for team days and quarterly for team retreats. This role will include UK and international travel. Only candidates with the right to work in their location will be considered.

The renumeration for this role is £43,000 per annum less any required deductions for income tax and national insurance. Please note that our pay is transparent and non-negotiable.

How to apply

Please make your application via applied here. We will not review any applications sent to our email.

For applicants who reach the interview stage, first round interviews will take place on Wednesday, August 14^th with final interviews for those shortlisted on Friday, August 16^th. All interviews will be remote.

Foxglove is growing and we are striving to build a team that is truly inclusive. We will create a diverse and adaptable environment where we support people to do their best work. We believe an effective and creative team is made up of people from different walks of life. You can read more about how we work and what we offer our staff here.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates who identify as disabled and meet the essential criteria as specified in the person specification / job description. If you would like to discuss this role before you apply, please get in touch. If any part of this process causes you difficulty, please get in touch with us: applications@foxglove.org.uk. If you would like to know more about how we process your data as part of the recruitment process you can read our recruitment data use policy here.

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