Are you passionate about building a more inclusive, sustainable and resilient economy? Are you looking for a meaningful way to use your finance expertise?
ECU is a small, dynamic non-profit working to transform the economy so that everyone has the freedom and security to live a good life.
ECU’s board members (Directors) are responsible for ensuring that ECU is well-run and delivers on our ambition to accelerate the transition to a fair, sustainable and resilient economy. They are responsible for fulfilling the legal duties of a Company Director, as set out by Companies House. Although ECU is not a charity, it is focused on delivering a public purpose, so most aspects of the role are similar to that of a charity trustee role.
We are now recruiting for ECU’s first Treasurer, who will lead at board level on monitoring ECU’s financial performance and sustainability, ensuring that we have robust financial policies and processes in place, and supporting other board members to fulfil their collective responsibilities around finance.
This is an exciting time to join ECU. We have an ambitious vision for change, a strong analysis of the opportunities and barriers to progress, and a clear view of our role in building a better economy. Our board is committed, collaborative and inclusive, with a strong understanding of its role and remit, and a culture of open dialogue. Our work is challenging, fascinating, and fulfilling – and, with rising levels of inequality, an unfolding climate emergency, overstretched public services and a growing concentration of corporate power, it couldn’t be more important.
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Founded in 2018, the Economic Change Unit is a small, agile, people-centred non-profit organisation focused on convening and campaigning for economic systems change.
Our vision is of a fair, sustainable and resilient economy where everyone has the freedom and security to live a good life.
We believe that the UK’s economic model is profoundly unjust and unsustainable. It drives a complex web of intersecting economic, environmental, social and political harms, including poverty, inequality, ecosystem destruction, increasingly severe climate impacts, social polarisation and the weakening of our democratic institutions.
This model is hurting people and communities here in the UK and also many people and communities across the global South. This is because of the UK’s colonial history, and the role of our government in preserving an international system which enables the ongoing exploitation of, and extraction of wealth from, countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Our mission is to accelerate the transformation of the UK economy.
