One Young World Fellowship 2026: Become a Programmes Fellow and Join a Global Network of Young Leaders

Fixed time period to: 30 November 2026
Application deadline: 19 December 2025
Salary: £ London Living Wage

One Young World is searching for three new Programmes Fellows to assist make their formidable plans for One Young World 2026 Cape Town a actuality. One Young World Fellows are every assigned to a division for the course of their Fellowship in order that they’ll construct their skillset and expertise. This is a mounted time period, full time position from January 2026 to 30 November 2026.

Fellows will work with younger leaders from each nation on the planet and a large vary of backgrounds, from social entrepreneurs to campaigners, tech innovators to poets. The programme is ideally suited to current graduates or early-career professionals with a ardour for sustainable improvement and who wish to study extra about pursuing a profession within the charity sector.

 

Taking on this problem requires:

• Passion for and sturdy basic information of social and environmental causes
• An enthusiastic and skilled persona
• Excellent consideration to element and private requirements
• Strong communication abilities, each written and verbal.

Fellows will graduate from the position as full members of the One Young World Ambassador Community, which means you’ll obtain life-time membership of the world’s most internationally numerous community of younger leaders. You will have the ability to name your self a One Young World Ambassador and take benefit of all of the unique alternatives out there to the Community.

 

To succeed within the Fellowship, you’ll:

• Have an energetic curiosity in present affairs, sustainability and geopolitical points.
• Be extremely environment friendly and organised and have expertise of complicated admin duties
• Have expertise utilizing the Microsoft workplace suite, particularly excel
• Be a group participant who takes the initiative and have the ability to cope nicely with deadlines and high-pressure setting
• Confident personalities who’re completely satisfied to talk to new folks on the phone: that is an outwardly dealing with position, so you have to have a very skilled method
• Must be fluent in English. Fluency in an extra language is fascinating however not obligatory
• Have the authorized proper to work within the UK – ideally you might be primarily based inside commuter distance to London, or you might be planning to relocate to London from January 2026.

 

Your position as a Programmes Fellow

Fellows becoming a member of the Programmes Team will likely be liable for guaranteeing the brightest younger leaders on the planet are capable of attend the One Young World Summit, regardless of their monetary means or location on the planet. Key tasks embrace:

• Ensure One Young World’s programmes are identified to probably the most impactful potential candidates by researching and partaking with unimaginable younger leaders all over the world.
• Ensure the perfect candidates profit from programmes by supporting the Programmes Team’s admissions processes.
• Play a frontline position in supporting beneficiaries by means of their programmes by offering logistical help. This will embrace:
  • Assisting with visa functions and working with our journey agent to guide delegate flights.
  • Working with our housing group to make sure delegates lodging is reserved.
  • Responding to incoming queries from all delegates (scholarship and company) in addition to companions. This contains managing a number of e mail inboxes and dealing with incoming calls.
  • Database administration.
  • During the Summit you can be the principle level of contact for all delegates attending from greater than 190 international locations!

 

Benefits embrace:

• One Young World Ambassador standing for all times with ongoing mentoring and help searching for additional profession alternatives.
• Opportunity to be concerned with One Young World 2026 Cape Town and future Summits.
• Flexible Fridays: for many of the yr, our group is inspired to finish their key duties by Thursday so we will take Friday for ourselves.
• Colleagues are contracted to work a 37.5 hour week (Monday-Friday) workplace primarily based, nevertheless for 9 months of the yr (outdoors of the three months main as much as One Young World’s annual Summit) the organisation operates a “Flexible Fridays” coverage – offers flexibility to workers on a Friday assuming there are not any pressing issues that require their consideration.
• Working amongst a numerous, passionate group and a international neighborhood of younger leaders.
• Private medical insurance coverage which incorporates physiotherapy, dental, eyecare and psychological well being help.
• NEST firm pension scheme
• Central London location
• Help with commuting – we’ve a cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans
• Regular alternatives to entry paid-for coaching and skilled improvement comparable to programs and {qualifications}
• A really sociable group – we’ve a informal after-work social on Thursdays in addition to Christmas, Summer and post-Summit events
• Travel to occasions as essential. Previous worldwide alternatives have included Cannes Lions and the UN ECOSOC Forum and native alternatives have included Student Pride and the Open Iftar Project
• An unparalleled community of changemakers all over the world.
• The alternative to be impressed each week by younger leaders.

 

The Team you’ll be a part of

The Programmes group is on the coronary heart of One Young World’s work to determine the world’s most impactful younger leaders. They work with authorities, the third sector and enterprise to develop and ship programmes which offer entry to the annual One Young World Summit in addition to help youth led initiatives by means of funding, networking and mentorship alternatives.

 

Key programmes among the many group’s portfolio of 40+ initiatives embrace:

• Lead2030: The world’s largest money prize for younger leaders making an impression for the Sustainable Development Goals.
• The Enterprising Futures Scholarship: One of One Young World’s largest scholarship programmes, this initiative brings main peacebuilders underneath 30 to the annual One Young World Summit the place they kind a lasting community to mutually help one another’s impression.
• The One Young World Entrepreneur of the Year Award: Identifies and celebrates the world’s main younger entrepreneurs – underneath the age of 35- who’re doing good while doing nicely.

 

How to apply

Please apply utilizing the hyperlink above, importing a CV and cowl letter earlier than the application deadline.
Please notice, functions will likely be reviewed on a rolling foundation, so we suggest making use of as early as potential. A longlist of candidates will likely be invited to take part briefly video interviews and a remaining shortlist of candidates will take part in a remaining spherical of panel interviews and assessments.

Please notice that by the beginning of employment, you have to have the fitting to work within the UK. Unfortunately we can’t supply sponsorship for this position now or sooner or later.

About One Young World

One Young World identifies, promotes and connects the world’s most impactful younger leaders in each nation, to create a world the place leaders with integrity are empowered to construct a honest, sustainable future for all. The annual One Young World Summit convenes the brightest younger expertise from each nation and sector, working to speed up social impression. Delegates from 190+ international locations are counselled by influential political, enterprise and humanitarian leaders comparable to H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan, Mary Robinson, and Sir Bob Geldof, amongst many different international figures.

During the Summit, delegates take part in 4 transformative days of speeches, panels, networking, and workshops. One Young World offers a platform for younger leaders to talk alongside Presidents, Nobel Prize Winners, international enterprise leaders and different inspiring international leaders. Delegates make lasting connections all through the Summit, celebrating their participation at social occasions and the unforgettable Opening and Closing Ceremonies.

Community
At the top of the Summit, Delegates change into One Young World Ambassadors. They return to their communities and organisations with the connections, insights and motivation to make a difference, accessing the worldwide community of 18,700+ younger leaders to speed up current initiatives or set up new ventures. Between Summits, Ambassadors take part in an ongoing programme of alternatives together with curated occasions, mentorship, media publicity, and talking engagements.

Impact
One Young World creates social impression by figuring out, connecting, and selling younger leaders from 190+ international locations. Through mentorship, funding applications and media publicity, One Young World empowers younger leaders to speed up and scale initiatives. One Young World is a highly effective advocacy platform reaching important progress in work on the SDGs, deepening democracy and together with younger folks in main decision-making processes.

One Young World additionally measures the social impression of its neighborhood by calculating the Social Return on Investment delivered by One Young World Ambassadors. One Young World Ambassadors featured in our Impact Reports since 2010 have impacted 50.42 million folks; the opposite Ambassadors energetic in our wider Community have impacted numerous extra. The Ambassador-led initiatives analysed within the 2023 report have impacted 8.86 million folks to this point, and generate, on common, $16 of social return for each $1 invested into their work.

Partners
One Young World believes that enterprise have to be on the coronary heart of social, environmental and financial change. One Young World has the biggest company community of any charity – working with companies to ship actual impression.

One Young World companions with companies to enhance ESG and create extra sustainable operations with a lasting constructive impression on the world round them. Through artistic storytelling and highly effective advocacy, One Young World offers organisations a platform to champion key causes. As the worldwide neighborhood for younger leaders, One Young World works with companies to determine and develop prime expertise to assist create extra moral organisations.

Partner organisations embrace Audi, AstraZeneca, BMW, Deloitte, L’Oréal, and Unilever, to call a few.

 

One Young World Sustainability Pledge

• One Young World endeavours to make sure its Summit is accessible to all. One Young World is dedicated to maximising the variety and inclusiveness of Delegates, Speakers, and Partners.
• One Young World will collaborate with its international neighborhood of Delegates, Ambassadors and Partners, to work in direction of a sustainable future for society, to deal with social and environmental points, and thus improve the standard of life all through the world.
• One Young World is constructed on respecting and embracing numerous cultures and values and will contribute to the event of the native areas wherein it operates. With its international attain, One Young World has a distinctive alternative to depart a legacy following every Summit.
• We perceive the impression of our enterprise actions on the setting and society and will work with our suppliers and companions to advertise socially accountable procurement.
• Toward reaching a sustainable society, we’ll attempt to develop our Summit by means of the creation of environmental worth. For this goal, we’ll tackle environmental challenges by means of our enterprise actions and will broaden our environmental initiatives primarily based on collaboration with stakeholders.

 

Equal Opportunities Statement

At One Young World, we don’t simply settle for difference — we have fun it, we help it, and we thrive on it for the profit of our workers, our Summit, and our neighborhood. One Young World is proud to be an equal alternative office and is dedicated to constructing a group that represents a selection of backgrounds, views, and abilities. The extra inclusive we’re, the higher our work will likely be.

 

What your colleagues say

“As someone who enjoys working in an international working environment towards a higher purpose, One Young World is an ideal place to work. It is more than a job – working at One Young World also gives you the opportunity to continuously learn and build a network of incredible change-makers from around the globe.”

“Working in such a purpose driven environment means that you become a more productive version of yourself. The team is so smart and supportive you want to push yourself harder in order to achieve the best results. Knowing that you’re changing the lives of people around the world makes it even more rewarding.”

“Our internationally diverse team means that everyone brings different experiences to the working environment which is very passionate whilst also being relaxed and friendly.”

 

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