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

We are looking for someone with a flair for supporting community growing organisations, including community gardens, city farms and care farms. The role will suit someone creative, methodical and comfortable with people. The role involves getting out and about, but most of the work is office work. This role does not include any practical gardening or farming activities.

There are three elements to the role advertised:

London Development 3 days a week 

To support the delivery and co-ordination of a programme of targeted training and capacity-building for city farms and community gardens in London to improve their long-term viability, thereby contributing to the sustainability of vibrant local communities throughout the capital. This is a well-established, popular, enjoyable programme and you would work closely with the London Development Manager and SF&G members. Annual outputs include:   

• Training days designed and delivered by SF&G members 
• Networking tours of community growing spaces 
• Showcase events including the London Harvest Festival 

Green Care Quality Mark (GCQM) Administration  1.5 days a week   

To support the UK-Wide GCQM programme liaising with our panel of Assessors, assigning applications for review and inputting data into our ‘Civi’ CRM. 

The programme helps green care practitioners such as care farms demonstrate to clients, funders, commissioners, referrers and volunteers that they operate a safe, professional and caring place to be.  

You would be responsible for administration and promotion of the GCQM, and supported by managers to retain participants of the scheme, attract new enrolments, and increase the associated earned income for SF&G. 

SF&G Membership Support 0.5 days a week

A half day a week will be dedicated to supporting SF&Gs UK- wide membership programme through social media, newsletters and CRM management.    

Ideally the employee would work on both the London programme and the Green Care Quality Mark. If you are only interested in one of these, please get in touch by phone.   

Links to more about these programmes:  

www.farmgarden.org.uk/london 

https://londonfarmsandgardens.org.uk/ - a site managed by the London Association.  

www.farmgarden.org.uk/projects/green-care-quality-mark 

www.farmgarden.org.uk/get-involved/join-us 

Recent London newsletter  

 

More Details

Hours:  Full time days (37.5 hours) per week.  

Or four days a week (30 hours) if preferred.  Ideally to include Tuesdays. 

Pension: 5% of salary for standard contracted hours after successful completion of a 3-month probation period. 

Holiday: 33 days annual leave per year including bank holidays. 

Contract: 12 months, subject to passing the three-month probation period. Possibility of an extension subject to funding, as with many charity roles.   

Location: Option to be based at a shared office space in Islington or to work from home. Frequent London travel. The person needs to live in London or be able to travel in regularly.    

Manager London Learning and Development Manager   

Responsible for: Contractors, volunteers

Interviews: First week of December. 

Start date: December or January with a paid day of training in December.   

Application information

Please download the job pack from our website. Development Officer Job Pack

We would like you to submit these three documents by email:  

• A CV 
• A Personal Statement giving specific examples of your experience for each element of the Person Specification These will be anonymised to minimise bias
• A cover page with personal details 
• And complete an online Equal Opportunities form

Questions to: London@FarmGarden.org.uk or call Amber on 0776 1920 776 

Social Farms & Gardens is an equal opportunities employer that understands that the best employees may not always be the best at job applications or interviews.  We try to make our recruitment processes relatively stress-free.  

You do not have to meet all elements of the Person Specification to be considered for the role.  

We do not ask for any formal qualifications as not everyone thrives in a school setting. 

We will invite 4 – 8 candidates to an interview. We will provide all questions and tasks in advance. If interviews are really stressful for you, please let us know.  

We then offer a paid trial day to the candidate that we would like to offer the role to. This is to make sure the candidate has a good idea of the kind of work involved, and the working environment.  

Please email applications to HRAdmin@FarmGarden.org.uk 

Please mention Roots to Work when applying for these jobs