About NEON
What is NEON?
NEON (New Economy Organisers Network) is a UK movement-building non-profit that supports social movements through organising, training, and communications. Per the website: "NEON's objective is to change the starting point for working together from 'what do we agree on?' to 'what can we win together?'"
NEON operates through three hubs:
- Movement Building Hub — "We build the power of social movements by strengthening their alignment, strategic capacity and organising skills"
- Comms Hub — "The Comms Hub is the home for progressives who want to get better at speaking to new audiences, and persuading people of their cause"
- Operations Hub — "The Ops hub is the engine of NEON: supporting our people and building the systems we need to build the capacity of social movements."
NEON focuses on four battlegrounds: "Climate, Housing, Migration & The Rise of Far-Right Politics." Programmes include the Worker-led Transition project, a collaboration with the Trades Union Congress (TUC) supporting workers in high-carbon manufacturing industries to plan for a sustainable future.
Where will I work?
NEON's office is in east London. From an active Senior Organiser JD (May 2026 — verbatim): "Our flexible working policy requires everyone to be in our east London office for 25% of the time as a minimum because building in-person relationships is important to us (that could be one week a month, or a day a week), but you're welcome to be there more, as many staff are." Some roles travel: "This role requires on average 3-4 days per month travelling across the UK (with occasional overnight stays). NEON will cover travel, accommodation and subsistence in line with our expenses policy and you will be eligible for TOIL for agreed additional hours worked in line with our TOIL policy."
What is the NEON team like?
Around 29 people work at NEON. The organisation explicitly centres anti-oppression in how it operates: "We particularly welcome applications from marginalised groups, especially people of colour and other ethnic minorities, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Disabled people and those who identify as working class or have done so in the past."
From the same JD: "We know the work goes way beyond 'diversity', it's about making the space inclusive too... So far this includes tangible things like a flexible work policy so people have genuine flexibility around where and when they work and a 28 hour week as standard; a gender-neutral parenting/leave policy, an anti-oppression strategy which is held at senior level given how important it is to the organisation."
Work-Life Balance
NEON's full-time week is 28 hours. From the active Senior Organiser JD (verbatim): "Full-time, which for NEON is 28 hours a week - the equivalent of a 4 day standard work week. This can be done over 4 or 5 days, that's totally up to you. Hours are generally flexible, with some core meetings everyone has to be at."
Benefits package (verbatim from JD): "A 28-hour week, up to 7.5% employer matched pension, genuinely flexible working, 20 days holiday per year (25 days pro-rated for a 4 day week), plus bank holidays and Christmas break, a progressive Parenting Policy, Sabbatical Policy, and a staff development budget."
Perks and Benefits
- 28-hour standard work week — equivalent of 4 day standard week, can be done over 4 or 5 days
- Up to 7.5% employer-matched pension
- 20 days holiday + UK bank holidays + Christmas break (25 days pro-rated for a 4-day week)
- Progressive gender-neutral Parenting Policy
- Sabbatical Policy
- Staff development budget
- Hybrid working — minimum 25% in east London office