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

Job description

Location: Stroud, Gloucestershire

Hours: 40 hours per week

Weekly Schedule: Tuesday to Friday 8am - 4:30pm, Saturday 6:30am - 3pm (with breaks)

Salary: £13.45 per hour - permanent contract. 

About us

We are a small, regenerative, organic farm less than a mile from Stroud. We’re passionate about producing nutritious food for the local community, improving our farms ecology and doing it all whilst having a good time.

The farm is made up of several ‘producing’ enterprises: a market garden, a Pasture for Life beef herd, laying hens and broilers, agroforestry, and an organic nursery. The trading enterprise works collaboratively across all of the producing enterprises and is responsible for packing, selling and delivering our produce, as well as being the face of the farm at weekly markets.

Role overview

The Trading Assistant role is varied and exciting, encompassing all aspects of organising, packing, delivering and selling our delicious farm produce. Working alongside Laura, our Head of Trading, you will follow a set weekly rhythm. Every week the produce and orders that arrive at Trading’s door are different, and balancing the incoming and outgoing produce makes Trading one of the most dynamic parts of the farm. 

Your core responsibility will be managing seasonal stock from our various farm enterprises and readying it for our four primary sales channels: the farm shop, farmers markets, wholesale, and online veg boxes. Driving is a key part of this role, delivering orders to customers' doors and to our pick-up points in one of our two electric vans as well as driving our stock and equipment to the market on Saturdays. 

This role is an ideal entry point for someone looking to transition into regenerative agriculture, especially those with transferable skills from the hospitality sector.

Key responsibilities

• Managing incoming and outgoing stock, ensuring our high quality standards are met

• Weighing and bagging produce 

• Packing weekly veg, meat and egg orders

• Re-stocking our self-service farm shop

• Running the stall at Stroud Farmers Market, providing warm, helpful customer service and product knowledge

• Handling cash and card payments accurately

• Delivering customer orders in one of our two electric vans

• Completing daily/weekly paperwork: cleaning schedules, goods intake log, temperature log, wastage log, inventories 

• Keeping the working area, storage and vehicles clean, tidy and organised

Personal Specification

Essential

• Full clean, UK driving licence

• Strong attention to detail

• Excellent communication

• Reliable, punctual and organised 

• Physically confident lifting crates up to 20kg safely

• Happy to work outdoors in all weather (winter markets can get cold!)

• Comfortable with early Saturday mornings

Desirable

• Experience in customer facing roles

• Experience in markets, hospitality or food processing

• Experience delivery driving in vans or similar

• Knowledge of Stroud and the local, surrounding area

• Knowledge or experience of regenerative farming 

• Food Safety & Hygiene Level 2

What We Offer

• Supportive, down-to-earth and fun team environment

• Meaningful work within a growing local food business

• Pathways into regenerative farming

• 30 days annual leave, inc. bank holidays (closed over christmas)

• 30% discount on our meat, eggs and veg

Closing date: Monday the 7th of December. Interviews will start from mid-December. We may close the job early if we find the right candidate. 

Start date: As soon as possible/ flexible

Application information

If you think this role sounds like the one for you, please email a cover letter and your CV to: tom@goodsmallfarms.co.uk. If you do not feel that you meet all the requirements for this role we still encourage you to apply. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

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