Find your place in the field of good food

Our goal is to connect good people with good food. We advertise sustainable food jobs and training opportunities to help jobseekers and employers find each other.

Roots to Work is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.

Job description

Anti-oppressive statement: Feedback is actively seeking to move through an anti-racist and anti-oppressive journey in every aspect of its work. We acknowledge that the environmental sector is less open to people from under-represented backgrounds, and we are strongly committed to identifying and correcting where we may be perpetuating patriarchal, white supremacist values and other forms of oppression in our organisational culture, partnerships, and community work. We especially want to hear from you if you feel that you have lived experience of power structures preventing you from accessing opportunities like this.

Read our full Equity, Justice and Anti-oppression statement.

We have an opt-in guaranteed interview scheme for candidates who declare a disability and/or are a person of colour and meet the essential criteria of the role profile. We are always happy to speak to candidates informally about the role before applying and encourage you to do so by emailing jobs@feedbackglobal.org.

ABOUT US

Feedback is a campaign group working for food that is good for people and planet. We want a world where:

• All people have secure access to delicious, culturally appropriate food that is nutritious and does not cause environmental harm
• Global supply chains, farming and fishing contribute to food sovereignty, good livelihoods, mitigate climate change and enable nature to thrive
• Communities have agency to create food economies that are inclusive, equitable, resilient and celebratory

To meet these objectives, we carry out the following activities:

• We delegitimize corporations
• We ideate and advocate for policy change and regulation
• We nurture community agency
• We widen our circle of allies
• We change culture and public discourse

Read our current strategic framework.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is an exciting opportunity to develop Feedback’s pioneering research and campaigning on the shift from destructive diets to food environments which support health, climate, nature and justice. Your brief will be to manage our ongoing campaigning for changes to food environments, through public policy and corporate practice, particularly by retailers and regulators, to achieve climate- and nature-safe consumption patterns. This is an exciting new phase in this campaign, where we are exploring new tactics including legal avenues and investor-focused campaigning.

The work is managed jointly between Feedback UK and our sister organisation Feedback EU, based in The Hague in the Netherlands, so frequent travel between these locations will be essential. We are open to candidates currently based (and with the right to work) either in the UK or in the Netherlands.

Feedback has been at the forefront of campaigning on food production and consumption for well over a decade.  We were one of the first NGOs to call for meat and livestock reduction as a climate mitigation measure and the first to develop a programme of work drawing attention to the role of the global financial sector in fuelling expansion of meat and dairy production. Our ground-breaking campaigning on aquaculture has highlighted the harms caused by the rapid expansion of fish farming and high levels of consumption of intensively farmed salmon, which include deleterious effects on wild fish populations, food security and global justice through unsustainable sourcing of feed. At the same time, Feedback teams in Liverpool, Brighton, Buckinghamshire and The Hague are exploring community food priorities, responding to urgent need and piloting new types of food economy. This breadth of work, from the grassroots to the grasstips, is what makes Feedback unique.

You will bring an eye for an unexpected campaign angle, political nous, ability to jump on opportunities for action, as well as your capacity to manage a project, and develop and support your colleagues. Everyone at Feedback is engaged in our journey towards fully embodying our principles of equity, justice and anti-oppression (see our statement here), and as a Campaign Manager you will bring a sharp awareness of embedded current and historic injustice in the food system. Experience working at a European level, and with a wide network of partners, would be an asset.

In return, we will offer you significant development and learning opportunities including a personal training and wellbeing budget, the chance to work in a supportive and flexible team, and to build a career in environmental and food systems research, campaigning, policy, and advocacy. We look forward to welcoming you to our team.

JOB DESCRIPTION

This role is responsible for delivery, alongside colleagues, for delivering our programme of work on destructive diets, contributing to retailers and other major food businesses reducing their sales of meat, dairy, farmed fish and other destructive foods. This is a wide ranging role at the beginning of a new funding period and new strategic period, requiring an experienced campaigner with excellent project management skills.

These responsibilities will be met through the following tasks:

1. To manage Feedback’s programme of on destructive diets (approx. 70% of time) by:

• Project managing existing funded projects, including translating campaign strategy into action.
• Line managing campaigners, supporting their wellbeing and development, as well as attending to your own development, wellbeing and learning.
• Spotting campaign opportunities and turning them into action with the help of junior colleagues.
• Working with partner organisations, administering sub-grants and supporting collective development of ideas.
• Building external relationships in support of campaign priorities, including develop an appropriate assessment of the external landscape and in order to make strategic interventions that fit Feedback’s USP.
• Staying on top of industry and policy developments related to campaign issues.
• Supporting fundraising, managing project budgets and reporting to funders.

1. Contribute to Feedback’s development and the life of the team (approx. 30% of time) by:

• Integrating Feedback’s equity, justice and anti-oppression commitments into campaign and project work.

• Working closely with senior staff in the London and Netherlands offices to ensure alignment, make the most of opportunities and guide future project development and fundraising.

• Adopting a learning-centre approach and implementing appropriate monitoring and evaluation processes, as well as contributing your skills and experience to wider Feedback campaigns as appropriate.

• Expressing our values in your work, these are: Audacity, solidarity, impact, collaboration and celebration.

 

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Knowledge and experience:

• A proven interest in and knowledge of climate, nature and social justice, and specifically of food system issues, acquired through study, activism, paid or voluntary work experience.
• Ideally, knowledge of working with or influencing sustainable investors, and building an investor-oriented campaign strategy.

Skills:

• Line management skills (or alternatively in peer management) and an ability to empower and develop others to achieve their goals.
• A proven capacity to implement effective campaigns on complex issues, including developing an approach based on a strategic understanding of the issues, landscape and opportunities for change.

• Excellent project management skills – organised, and attentive to detail, and the capacity to organise and bring others with you.
• The ability to write effectively for different audiences, including high level policy audiences.
• Strong relationship building and management skills, the ability to identify strategic relationships and develop them.

Behaviours

• A can-do attitude, flexibility and adaptability, alongside a willingness to pitch in on delivery and help colleagues across the team, recognising that Feedback is a small, nimble organisation with fast-changing priorities.

• Capacity to work largely independently, with some consultation with senior colleagues.

Communication and leadership

• The capacity and confidence to contribute to the strategy direction or the organisation, and to support a team to do so.
• Capacity to establish strong relationships within the organisation, including with a geographically dispersed team and with international partners.

Application information

Please apply via Charity Jobs with a CV and cover letter (no longer than 2 A4 pages total) explaining how you meet the person specification and why you would like to work at Feedback.

Deadline to apply: 9am, Wednesday 26th March 2025

Successful candidates for interview will be notified by Friday 28th March 2025

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 2nd April 2025

For any questions, access requirements, or if you require the job description in a different format, please contact jobs@feedbackglobal.org.

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