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

Campaigns Intern - Recipe for Change

Sustain
Cambridge Heath, London

Posted: 25 Sep 2025

Deadline: 13 Oct 2025

Compensation: £25,207 per annum FTE pro-rata (£10,083 per annum for 2 days per week)

Living Wage employer Ethnicity Confident scheme Disability Confident scheme

Paid Internship Part-time Fixed term / contract

Job description

Sustain is recruiting for a short-term part-time dedicated Campaigns Intern to support the Recipe for Change team with planning, promotion and delivery of a citizens’ charter for healthier food. This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience in public mobilisation, event support, community engagement and communications.

We’re looking for someone keen to gain more experience in campaigning and working with lived experience groups, a confident communicator, passionate about social change and ideally with an interest in food and farming. 

We particularly encourage applications from people from diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, and especially those with first-hand experience of living or working in communities affected by health inequalities. 

If you thrive on making a big difference and want to contribute directly to a high-impact national campaign in building public awareness and mobilisation around the need for companies to put healthier food on our shelves, don't delay, apply today!

Further details about this role can be viewed on our website or download the job information pack, 

Application information

Please email recruitment@sustainweb.org including:

• Your CV
  • Your CV should be no more than 2 A4 pages, (min font size 11) and saved with your full name in the document title. Please label the file in the format ‘CV-your-full-name’.
• Your covering letter
  • Detail how you meet the person specification requirements of the role. 
  • Your covering letter should provide a brief outline of your interest in the role, detail your relevant skills and experience and describe how you meet the criteria for the role, and should be no longer than 2 pages, in an additional document also saved with your full name in the title. Label as ‘covering letter-your-full-name’.
• Equal opportunities monitoring form
  • Please complete our equal opportunities monitoring form which is separated out from your CV and covering letter and is only used for monitoring purposes. 
  • Link for form: https://forms.office.com/e/z8Li68HGQw

We will only accept applications where a CV and covering letter has been received and the monitoring form has been completed.

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