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

The Ecological Land Cooperative (ELC) is looking for a creative and organised Marketing & Communications Coordinator to help share our story and grow our community of supporters.

ELC is a cooperative working to widen affordable access to land for ecological land-based enterprises such as farming, horticulture, forestry and rural crafts. Our sites support thriving smallholdings that produce food while restoring land and strengthening rural communities.

This is a part-time role (15 hours per week) working with a small, collaborative team.

Why this role matters

The Marketing and Communications Coordinator plays a key role in helping people understand, support and engage with ELC’s work.

Through storytelling, campaigns and digital communications, you will help grow our membership, strengthen supporter relationships and generate sustainable income. Your work will help amplify our mission of creating affordable access to land for ecological livelihoods.

What you’ll do

You will lead and deliver ELC’s communications activity across the organisation, including:

Communications and content

• Deliver communications across email, social media, website, press and print
• Produce the monthly newsletter
• Maintain the ELC brand and house style
• Respond to press enquiries and maintain the image library

Digital communications

• Maintain and update the ELC website
• Manage social media channels

Membership and supporter engagement

• Coordinate membership recruitment, renewals and engagement
• Support individual giving campaigns with the Fundraiser
• Build relationships with members, supporters and investors
• Support the promotion of legacy giving

CRM and reporting

• Manage the CRM system and supporter database
• Ensure GDPR compliance
• Collate communications and impact data for reporting

Who we’re looking for

You will be passionate about ecological land-based livelihoods and share our cooperative values. You will be proactive, organised and comfortable working in a small, mission-driven team.

We’re particularly interested in candidates with:

• Experience in communications, marketing or fundraising (ideally in the charity or environmental sector)
• Experience delivering multi-channel communications campaigns
• Experience managing supporter or membership engagement
• Strong writing and communication skills
• Confidence using websites, CRM systems, email marketing and social media tools
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail

Desirable

• Experience of individual giving or legacy fundraising
• Experience developing communications strategies
• Knowledge of ecological, land justice or cooperative sectors

What we offer

• Permanent part-time role (15 hours / 2 days per week, flexible by agreement)
• £33,560 pro rata (£13,424 actual salary)
• Up to 4% matched pension contribution
• Flat pay structure (all workers paid the same rate)
• Remote working with occasional travel to Bristol and ELC sites
• Sociocratic governance and collaborative decision-making
• The opportunity to contribute to systemic change in land ownership

Join us

This is an opportunity to join a cooperative working to reshape access to land in England.

If you’re excited by the idea of using communications to support ecological regeneration, rural livelihoods and collective land ownership, we would love to hear from you.

Apply by: 9am Monday 30th March

For an informal conversation about the role, contact Emma at emma@ecologicalland.coop

Application information

Please send your CV and a covering letter (maximum two pages) to emma@ecologicalland.coop.

We assess applications against a structured score sheet based on the criteria in the Job Description and Person Specification.

In your covering letter, please clearly demonstrate how your experience, skills, and knowledge meet the essential criteria, using the headings in the Person Specification as a guide. We recommend providing specific examples to show how you meet each area, rather than general statements. Applications are scored solely on the evidence provided, so please ensure you explicitly outline relevant experience, including transferable skills where appropriate.

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