Writer & Editor

Leiden

Full-time

Permanent employee

Your mission

The Writer and Editor actively shapes and refines written content to ensure the IKEA Foundation communicates with clarity, coherence, and credibility across all channels and contributors. The role strengthens structure, narrative flow, and accessibility of externally facing content while safeguarding accuracy, contextual integrity, partner voice, and cultural sensitivity.

Working closely with the Content Creation Specialists, Public Relations, Learning & Engagement and programmes colleagues, the Writer and Editor ensures editorial consistency and readiness across content produced by multiple teams and regions. The role upholds the Foundation’s editorial standards and tone of voice, supporting a coherent organisational narrative and high quality communications that reflect the Foundation’s values and strategic priorities.

Responsibilities

Editorial shaping and refinement: Actively edit, refine, and strengthen written content produced across the Foundation, across formats and products, to ensure clarity, coherence, and readability for external audiences. Improve structure, narrative flow, and accessibility while preserving factual accuracy, partner voice, contextual integrity, and accessibility for diverse external audiences.
Editorial standards and voice stewardship: Apply and uphold the IKEA Foundation’s editorial standards, tone of voice, and messaging frameworks across all externally facing written content. Ensure written content reflects the Foundation’s values, strategic priorities, and commitment to culturally sensitive, context-grounded communication.
Narrative coherence across contributors: Ensure consistency of language, framing, and narrative emphasis across content generated by multiple teams and regions. Identify and address inconsistencies, duplication, or gaps to maintain a coherent Foundation voice and position across channels and products.
Editorial readiness and quality control: Determine when written content is editorially ready for external use, ensuring quality thresholds are met before publication or distribution. Provide clear editorial guidance to contributors to support timely revisions and strengthen overall writing quality and consistency.
Cross-functional editorial coordination: Work closely with Content Creation Specialists, Public Relations, Programmes and Learning & Engagement colleagues to enable smooth editorial workflows from draft through final content. Support clear hand-offs and shared expectations across Communications, Programmes, and Learning teams.

Your profile

You have:

Solid experience in writing and editing.
Experience editing and aligning content submitted by multiple contributors for consistency of style and tone of voice.
Demonstrated experience translating complex content into concise, accessible messaging.
Exceptional writing and editing skills with the ability to produce clear, compelling accurate content for diverse audiences and platforms.
Strong professional grammar and proof-reading skills.
The ability to vary tone, style and complexity depending on audience.
Proven skills in storytelling and shaping narratives

You are:

Motivated by living and sharing the values of the IKEA Foundation.
Purpose and impact driven with a deep commitment to improving lives of people and the planet.
Able to adapt to change and are always looking for ways to improve and develop.
Able to work well under pressure and manage competing priorities to meet deadlines.
Able to turn around large volumes of work quickly without sacrificing quality.
Critical and creative.
A thoughtful communicator who maintains accuracy, consistency, and editorial excellence while representing organisational values.
Intellectually curious and culturally sensitive demonstrating commitment to social impact and equity.
A strong collaborator with the ability to work across functions.
Fluent in English (preferably native), oral and written.

Why us?

At IKEA Foundation, you'll join a purpose-driven organization dedicated to creating positive change for people and the planet. We offer a supportive, collaborative culture, excellent benefits, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact every day.

What we offer

Benchmarked salary for a full-time (38 hours per week) contract, including 8% holiday allowance.
Fully funded pension scheme, with no employee contribution required.
Wellbeing allowance of €780 per year to support your mental and physical health.
30 days of annual leave (full-time basis).
Flexible working arrangements, with office-based collaboration as the primary way of working.
Fully covered public transport commuting through an NS Business Card.
15% IKEA co-worker discount (up to €500 per year).
Access to the "Dankje" recognition programme, rewarding long-term contributions and service.

Please note that salaries are paid in 12 equal monthly instalments.

Recruitment process

What to expect?

Thank you for your interest in joining the IKEA Foundation.

Once you've submitted your application, we'll review it as quickly as possible. As a small organization, we receive many applications and have limited capacity, so we appreciate your patience while we carefully consider each candidate.

If your experience and profile look like a good match for the role, we'll invite you to a first online introductory conversation. Following a positive initial discussion, you'll be asked to meet with members of the team for a follow-up interview.

Depending on the role, the process may also include an assessment and pre-employment screening, followed by a final interview stage.

We look forward to learning more about you!

About us

The IKEA Foundation is dedicated to building a world where low emission economies create wellbeing for the many people and sustain planetary health.

Founded by Swedish entrepreneur Ingvar Kamprad, we are proud to share the values of the business he started – IKEA. Though we operate independently from IKEA, we hold a common vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people.

To pursue this vision, we support partners around the world, with a focus on emerging and developing economies. Our work is made possible by financial resources generated over decades of IKEA business success. To date, we have provided more than €3 billion in funding to our partners.

Togetherness is our core value and lies at the heart of our work. We recognise that solving the challenges of this century will require unprecedented levels of collaboration. No single organisation or group of people will be able to meet them alone.