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Now hiring: are you our next Secretary-General?

Are you an activist who is excellent at coordinating work and passionate aout stopping climate collapse? ReGeneration 2030 is hiring parental leave cover for our Secretary-General.


About this role

This is a full-time*, parental leave cover role in the leadership of ReGeneration 2030, the Nordic-Baltic Sea network building youth power to fight for a just sustainable transition. 


The Secretary-General role combines movement leadership, strategic thinking, organising skills and administrative stewardship, holding the organisation together across strategy, people, resources and action. 


Directly reporting to the Chair of the Board, the Secretary-General also works with the youth Board, the Secretariat, working groups and the wider Network to support democratic decision-making, shared leadership and effective action across ReGeneration 2030.


*NOTE: we want to find the right person to perform this role. Therefore whilst ideally we are looking for someone to start the role full-time in April 2026, we are open to organising a 50/50 role split between two qualified candidates, and/or a slow start depending on needs


This might be your dream job if...

  • You’re passionate about stopping climate collapse and building a better future for all 

  • You are hungry for change and willing to work hard for it 

  • You love empowering others and coordinating efforts across teams

  • You don’t mind hunkering down to grind through administrative and fundraising tasks together with others when it's needed 

  • You don’t mind working in a non-traditional context, with flexible hours and location, and you can manage your own time and tasks well without direct supervision 


If this sounds like you, then you might be ready to take on this leadership role in an exciting youth-run environmental network!


The Secretary-General’s tasks include

  1. Organisational leadership, stewarding the organisation’s strategic direction, aligning our day-to-day action across the organisation with our long-term vision for change

  2. Building and maintaining people power: working with everyone in the organisation, particularly those in key positions such as the Board and the Secretariat, to build and maintain an empowering organising culture; a culture where our work is decided upon collectively, and then individuals feel responsibility over their own tasks, and soon begin to empower others

  3. Administration, fundraising and operations; meeting the organisation’s legal responsibilities in Finland, ensuring financial sustainability, and our ability to plan confidently for the future




Working conditions

  • Pay: €2790 - €3500 per calendar month, depending on the cost of living at your working location and your experience in this role

  • Working hours: full-time hours distributed flexibly through the week, with some evening and weekend work in order to meet with volunteers and run training programmes

  • Contract length: 10 months* with a possibility of extension to permanent contract

  • Start date: late April 2026*

  • Location: anywhere in the Nordic and Baltic Sea region, although we have a preference for Ã…land, followed by Tallinn, Ã…bo/Turku, Helsinki and Stockholm regions. Travel to these locations is a part of the role

  • Holidays and benefits: 22 paid holiday days per year plus public holidays, flexible working hours and location; sustainable worker support package including equipment repair and sustainable wellbeing budget; an exciting, purpose-driven working environment with a squad of active and passionate volunteers


*NOTE: we want to find the right person to perform this role. Therefore whilst ideally we are looking for someone to start the role full-time in April 2026, we are open to organising a 50/50 role split between two qualified candidates, and/or a slow start depending on needs


What we’re looking for

ESSENTIAL: commitment to fighting for change and skills empowering youth activists

These skills are essential to perform this role well - you should tick almost all these boxes 

  • Demonstrated understanding of climate justice and the role of people power in demanding a just transition, shown through organising, advocacy or movement work

  • Strong organising mindset, with experience treating volunteers as political actors and building collective capacity over time. Ability to identify potential leaders, support their growth, and intentionally pass on responsibility. Ability to recognise when their own involvement limits others’ leadership, and to withdraw accordingly

  • Experience building trust, motivation and accountability through ongoing relationships, including 1–1 conversations and group processes

  • Ability to work independently in a remote setting with minimal day-to-day supervision

  • Comfort working with volunteer-led rhythms, including periods that require responsiveness outside standard working hours


NON-ESSENTIAL: experience in relevant areas of work

These skills will set you up well for the role, but you don’t need to have them to apply. The more important ones are **starred


Movement and leadership experience

  • **Ability to manage boundaries and working time sustainably; being responsive to the needs of a volunteer-led organisation whilst executing active strategies for rest, recovery and sustainability and modelling healthy leadership in an activist context

  • **Experience working within or alongside youth and environmental movements in the Nordic and/or Baltic Sea region, with an understanding of movement ecosystems and power dynamics.

  • **Experience translating long-term goals into annual priorities, timelines and decision points in a collective setting

  • **Strong facilitation skills, including experience designing and holding inclusive, focused and democratic meetings and decision-making spaces.

  • Ability to address tensions and disagreements directly and constructively without avoiding or escalating them


Experience relevant to ReGeneration 2030’s projects and actions

  • **Active within ReGeneration 2030 as a volunteer, Board Member, worker or attendee of one of our programmes

  • Experience organising multi-day events for 100+ participants, particularly those coordinated through volunteer working groups.

  • Experience designing or coordinating activist training or leadership development programmes.

  • Adept at communicating with youth and power holders in order to recruit new activists and push forward calls for change, including through;

    • building and maintaining websites, and/or 

    • social media channels, and/or 

    • Blog posts and newsletters, and/or

    • Speeches, media interviews and panel events

    • Through advocacy in specific channels such as the United Nations and the European Union

  • Experience in coalition- and network- building across social movements, particularly in maintaining established formal networks

  • Contacts across the Nordic and Baltic Sea environmental movement


Experience with non-profit administration and financing

  • **Financial literacy for non-profits; ability to understand and work with budgets, forecasts and financial reports, including comfort using Google Sheets to do so.

  • **Grant management - ability to find grant opportunities, coordinate grant applications, track obligations, and ensure reporting and compliance

  • Experience with the legal obligations of a Finnish foundation.

  • Ability to set up and maintain light but reliable administrative systems that others can use.

  • Ability to oversee payroll, contracts and basic HR processes in line with law and organisational values.


How to apply

Fill out an application form here. We don’t ask for personal details yet like your name, your CV, or where you live, in order to make this process accessible to people from a variety of experiences and backgrounds, and reduce biases in the hiring committee along the way. We may ask you for these details later in the process.


We will be assessing applications on a rolling basis, so apply earlier for the best chance of getting the role. We will not accept applications after Sunday 22nd March. 


We encourage you to fill out the application form in your own words, and avoid relying on AI-text generation - we want to hear about YOUR ideas and experiences, not an amalgamation of what a language model thinks a good answer might be. Vaguely written chat-gpt-ish responses may be penalised by the Hiring Committee. 


We intend to notify all candidates of whether or not they have been selected for interview by the latest on 30th March. 


If you are selected for an interview, we will ask you to complete two short tasks (no longer than 1 hour in total), so we can see your skills in action.  During the interview, we will ask you questions about your skills, experience and approach to the role. We intend to notify all candidates on whether or not they have been selected for the role by the latest on 19th April.


Got questions? Feel free to reach out to Secretary-General Keira on keira@regeneration2030.org




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