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Roots to Work is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.
Sustain
Cambridge Heath, London
Posted: 18 Jun 2025
Deadline: 11 Jul 2025
Compensation: £52,002 per year
Living Wage employer Ethnicity Confident scheme Disability Confident scheme
Paid Full-time Permanent
Job description
Sustain has an exciting opportunity for a new Public Affairs Manager to join us in making a significant impact on food and farming policy-making. Reporting to the Director of Policy and Advocacy, you will be responsible for planning and delivering our public affairs activity during a period of significant possibility for UK food system change.
With your experience of public affairs, networking and relationship building skills, along with excellent verbal and written communication skills, you will work with our campaigns and communications teams on strategic communications, narratives and framing that work with political audiences and help shape the policy debate to provide an enabling environment for positive decisions by power holders for a food system that benefits people and planet.
You will have excellent political and influencing instincts and a strong interest in policy development and the workings of Parliament and Government in order to identify the processes and moments to maximise political attention on the issues we work on, and to galvanise support for our asks and positive action on specific policy changes.
Application information
Please download the job information pack for further details about this role including how to apply.
Closing date: 9am, Friday 11 July 2025
First interviews will take place via Zoom on: Tuesday 22 July (pm) and Wednesday 24 July (am) 2025
Second interviews will take place in-person on: Friday 1 August 2025
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About Sustain
Sustain is a powerful alliance bringing together around 100 organisations nationally – and hundreds more at local and regional level. We believe everyone should have access to healthy and sustainably produced food that protects people, animals and planet. Working together, we run highly effective and creative campaigns, advocacy, networks and demonstration projects, aiming to catalyse permanent changes in policy and practice, and to help equip more people and communities with skills as change-makers.
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Roots to Work
C/o Sustain
The Green House
244-254 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9DA
0203 5596 777
sustain@sustainweb.org
www.rootstowork.org
Roots to Work is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.
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