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

Do you love learning about what people are doing, connecting them with others and helping to share their stories? Are you passionate about  being part of a community of people that can help make positive change in the world? Do you have excellent communication skills and a strategic approach? Do you enjoy finding creative ways to reach different people?  If so, please apply for this key role within the Permaculture Association.

Communication is vital for the success of our organisation and the Communications Coordinator plays a key role in this. As the Communications Coordinator, you will help share what our members are doing in a wide range of permaculture  projects from small urban projects, to community gardens, to large farms and helping members connect to each other.  You will do this through sharing stories and information through a regular bulletin, a digest and regular social media posts. Your creativity will be needed to design compelling content to reach and encourage the engagement of broad audiences in permaculture.  You will manage our website making sure it is up to date and relevant and also develop content for and manage our social media channels.  You will also work closely with our Education Lead and permaculture educators to promote the courses that are offered through our platform, And you will provide support to the International Lead to develop communications for a partnership project.

This is a varied role with outward facing elements engaging with members and the wider public. It includes a mix of strategic, operational and administrative responsibilities. 

Job Purpose:  

To grow the permaculture movement by promoting the work of our members and of the Association through timely and compelling communications.

Main tasks and responsibilities (for the full list of tasks please refer to the full job description on our website)

• Coordinate a rolling communications timeline and action plan 
• Develop a social media content calendar that reflects and drives our termly offer and grows our audience
• Lead planning and delivery of specific campaigns 
• Managing and curating existing website content and ensuring staff members are managing and updating their own areas of the site.
• Designing content that reaches diverse audiences and aligns with our JEDAI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Accessibility and Inclusion) action plan
• Engage with responses to our social media channel posts
• Actively engage with members to commission content and edit what is supplied to suit the channel
• Write and send a monthly member’s newsletter using our Customer Relations Management system (CiviCRM)
• Collate information on members’ activities  and include these in the e-bulletin
• Marketing the Association’s membership and events
• Work closely with Education Lead to plan and schedule promotion of all courses
• Marketing the Association's different offers of online learning.
• Monitor, analyse and report on digital performance data and campaign performance, using the insights to optimise campaigns, audience reach and SEO
• Attend weekly team and quarterly planning meetings and others as required
• Contributing income and expenditure figures to the annual budget

Person specification (for the full person specification  please refer to the full job description on our website)

Essential

• Demonstrable understanding of permaculture design and sustainability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Previous experience in a communications officer, coordinator or manager role
• Experience managing websites, optimising content and writing for the web
• Experience marketing courses and/or events
• Confident and effective user and manager of social media channels
• Competent in graphic design using Canva
• Adaptable, resilient and proactive
• Enjoy talking with and listening to people 

Desirable

• Competent in video production and post-production
• Experience using a Customer relationship  management platform 

Key Information

Salary: £27,431 pro-rata; equivalent to £14,827/year

Hours: 20  hrs per week which can be worked flexibly

Contract: Permanent 

Holiday: 32 days including Bank Holidays pro rata.

Responsible to: Chief Executive Officer

Location: Leeds office is preferred with some home working. For the right candidate we will consider totally remote working

Job sharing: This post is not suitable for job sharing.

Eligibility: Please note you must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this role.

Well-being and  flexible working: 15 minutes/day of work time for meditation/being in nature; generous leave policy; supportive team culture; flexible working to support family, friends and community life; Association sick pay scheme in addition to statutory requirements.

About Us

Permaculture is used to design regenerative systems at all scales - from home and garden to community, farm, business and bioregions. The Permaculture Association is a worldwide leader in permaculture education, providing high-quality, trusted and transformative education. We are the national charity that supports people to learn about and use permaculture. The Permaculture Association has nearly 2,000 members, with many hundreds of local projects and initiatives across England, Scotland and Wales. You can read more about our work here: https://www.permaculture.org.uk/about-us.

Application information

To apply for this position, please visit our website for the full application pack and instructions for completing the Communications Coordinator Application Form.

The deadline for applications is 23:59 p.m. Sunday 26th October, 2025

As an inclusive employer and membership organisation, we want our staff team to better reflect the communities in which we live and work. We are committed to making sure our organisation is inclusive, diverse and anti-racist, and one  that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities. So if you are interested in the role, but are worried that you do not meet all the requirements in the person specification, we would still like to hear from you. People from communities that experience discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity or immigration status; sexuality or gender; age; socio-economic status; or disability are actively and especially encouraged to apply. 

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