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Roots to Work is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.
Sustain
Remote working
Posted: 8 Aug 2025
Deadline: 22 Sep 2025
Compensation: Unsalaried position
Unpaid Part-time Remote working
Job description
The Sustain alliance is seeking a new Chair of our Council of Trustees to join us in working with the alliance to drive food-system change and the just transition to nature-friendly farming and healthy and sustainable diets.
This is an especially important time for Sustain and our alliance members, with greater interest than ever in food-systems thinking. The Sustain alliance is central to driving this agenda – we have many success stories already under our collective belts and the spirit and enthusiasm to win more. Our new strategy, being developed during 2025, is due for implementation from January 2026. Sustain has a unique role to play in convening over 100 organisations at national level, and hundreds more at local and regional levels, working together in common cause for lasting improvements to policy and practice.
Sustain’s Council of Trustees is elected from the Sustain alliance membership. Following selection by serving Trustees (plus due process to be elected as a Trustee by the alliance membership), the successful candidate for Sustain Chair will join the Trustee group. The main purpose of the Chair role is to lead the Sustain Council of Trustees in guiding the organisation towards increasing its impact whilst ensuring its sustainability.
The application deadline for the Chair of Sustain role is 10am, Monday 22 September, but early conversations are encouraged (see below). Download the Sustain Chair role description here.
Application information
Download the role description. This contains the full application process.
Deadline for applications: 10am, Monday 22 September 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 is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.
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