Executive Coordinator

Salary: 4 5,227 GBP/year, commensurate with relevant experience and skills

Location:

London, UK

Are you purpose‑led and ready to embark on a journey to shape the future of sustainable cotton? Join us at Better Cotton as Executive Coordinator (Strategy & Projects), supporting the Chief Commercial Officer and 2 to 3 Senior Directors in her team. You will play a critical role in enabling delivery across the CCO’s portfolio by coordinating priorities, tracking key initiatives, and ensuring timely execution of strategic priorities.

Beyond executive support, you will act as a central coordination point for project planning, progress tracking, and follow‑up across multiple work streams, ensuring alignment and accountability. You would join a global team at the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative. Through our network of field‑level partners, we have trained nearly 3 million farmers in 23 countries in more sustainable agricultural practices.

This job is perfect for someone who is highly organised, great at planning, with strong attention to detail, and who would thrive in a fast‑paced enabling role. The role combines traditional executive coordination responsibilities with structured project and delivery support across a complex global portfolio.

As an organisation we have ambitious goals: reducing GHG emissions from cotton production by half, cutting synthetic pesticide use, improving soil health, improving farm income and supporting women’s empowerment among farmers and farm workers. A quarter of the world’s cotton is now grown under the Better Cotton Standard. We have united the industry’s stakeholders behind our efforts, from ginners and spinners to brand owners, civil society organisations and governments.

Everyone who cares about cotton and its sustainable future can now be part of something better.

As Executive Coordinator, you will be responsible for assisting the CCO and Senior Directors to deliver at pace for the organisation. A successful Executive Coordinator will support the CCO in organising her diary, travel and meetings, whilst also keeping track of workplan deliverables and reporting requirements from her direct reports. You will also support Senior Directors with travel, meetings and expense management, based on needs.

The position is based in the Governance, Planning and Strategy team, and the role will be in contact with almost everyone across the organisation.

You will help the CCO to plan ahead and ensure she is well prepared for critical meetings. You will liaise on her behalf with internal and external stakeholders to help allocate time efficiently. In this role you will prioritise tasks effectively, manage deadlines, and allocate appropriate time to various responsibilities. You will be self‑disciplined and able to work independently, balancing multiple tasks simultaneously while ensuring all duties are completed on schedule.

Together with the GPS team, you will support delivery of virtual and in‑person meetings of the organisation’s management bodies, including the Senior Management Forum, Leadership Team and the Executive Group.

You will maintain a strong attention to detail, reviewing documents, data and communications to ensure accuracy and consistency.

The CCO and Senior Directors are based across the UK and Switzerland, and their teams span multiple regions globally. You will be comfortable working across time zones and cultures, with a communication style that is inclusive and adaptable. While collaborating broadly across the organisation, you will ensure dedicated focus on supporting the CCO.

• Calendars: Diary management and meeting coordination
• Email and inbox management: Flagging important emails, managing correspondence, and following up directly where appropriate
• Travel: Planning and booking travel arrangements; preparing travel packs and briefings; drafting Travel ToR, coordinating Back‑To‑Office Reports, managing expense reporting and approvals
• Project coordination and delivery oversight:
  Support planning and execution of key strategic initiatives led by the CCO and Senior Directors
  Develop and maintain project trackers,…