Want to join the H&M Foundation in its mission to drive positive change for communities, people and the planet? We are happy to announce an exciting role with the opportunity to contribute to the acceleration of innovation for a planet positive fashion industry.

About H&M Foundation

The H&M Foundation is an independent non-profit global foundation headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. It is privately funded by the Stefan Persson family, founders and main owners of the H&M Group. Created to accelerate progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030, H&M Foundation uses collaboration and innovation to co-create, fund and share solutions for the world’s most urgent challenges.

Today, the Foundation has thirteen employees, and we are extending our Planet team to further strengthening our role as the impatient visionaries by finding and supporting innovations to create and scale impact. To succeed, we must address challenges within the entire earth system – not only climate – but also water, ocean, biodiversity and land and across every step of the industry’s value chain. And we cannot settle with reducing negative impact or even neutralizing it, instead, our actions must lead to a planet positive future.

Project manage our annual innovation challenge Global Change Award, including:

• Preparing and executing the launch of each year’s challenge
• Preparing and executing the scoring process of applications
• Identifying and coordinating service providers and their deliveries
• Collaborating with partners, such as KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Accenture
• Securing time plan and budget
• Coordinating award ceremony and other events
• Working closely with our Strategy Leads and the Foundation’s Communications team.

• Previous experience of driving complex projects
• Understanding of the challenges within the fashion industry and how innovations can be part of the transformation
• Experience of working with procurement of various services
• Problem solving skills
• Perseverance and the ability to thrive in a changing environment
• A great ability of expressing yourself in English, both in writing and orally
• Experience of building, developing & managing a wide range of stakeholder relationships

As a person we believe you

• Have a great interest in the Foundation’s area of work
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit, breaking new ground and challenge assumptions
• Need to be structured, creative and good at prioritizing
• Have an ability to drive development and projects and at the same time maintain daily tasks.
• Can work independently as well as in teams
• Have no prestige to dig in on tasks both big and small required for the team’s full delivery

If you feel that your skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send in your application as soon as possible. This role will report to Diana Amini (Global Manager, H&M Foundation). If you have any questions about the position, please turn to her: [email protected] or Lisa Hall (HR) [email protected].