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Public Affairs Lead

Food Foundation CIO
Brixton, London

Posted: 1 Dec 2025

Deadline: 5 Jan 2026

Compensation: £39,960 per year

Paid Full-time Permanent

Job description

The Public Affairs Lead sits within our Policy and Advocacy Team, working to build support for The Food Foundation’s work amongst Parliamentarians and to influence the government to help deliver policies that will transform the food system. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small organisation delivering big impact on the political agenda around food.

The Public Affairs Manager reports to our Head of Policy and Advocacy and will be responsible for planning and delivering our public affairs activity. You will spend considerable time meeting MPs and Peers in parliament and building relationships with their teams with a view to identifying potential new supporters and ensuring that The Food Foundation has a range of contacts that we can call on to support and amplify our policy asks and to raise issues when required.

While this role is focused on political engagement, you will work closely with policy and research colleagues and with our communications team to share perspectives on which priorities it may be tactical to pursue at any given time and to understand what evidence is available to inform engagement.

You will also work closely with public affairs professionals in other organisations to deliver joint programmes of engagement work which leverage respective organisational strengths.

You will have excellent political instincts and a strong interest in policy developments, monitoring closely what is going on in Parliament and in Government, and keeping abreast of the latest developments in order to identify opportune moments to maximise political attention on the issues we work on and to galvanise support for policy change.

Application information

Deadline to apply: 5:00pm on Monday 5th January Please apply as soon as you can. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and we may close early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Please apply to office@foodfoundation.org.uk (with ’Public Affairs Lead’ as the subject) with a cover letter and up-to-date CV. Please use your cover letter to:

1. Tell us where you heard about the role.
2. Explain why you want the role.
3. Briefly describe how you meet the skills section of the person’s profile.
4. Briefly describe your own lived experience, understanding and/or ally-ship on the issues surrounding equality, inclusion and diversity.

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