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Freelance Comms and Website Support (various roles)

Farming the Future
Remote working

Posted: 19 Feb 2025

Deadline: 21 Feb 2025

Compensation: circa £380 per day

Paid Part-time Flexible hours Fixed term / contract Remote working

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Job description

Learning Communications and Website Support freelance roles

For further details please download the PDF

We are currently seeking freelance support as part of a strategic project working with various experts and storytellers to help us develop our approach to collective impact and communication within Farming the Future.

  • We are currently seeking freelance support from one or more communications professionals to assist us with communicating our learning to different stakeholders.
  • We are seeking proactive, creative communications professional(s) with strong visual and writing skills.
  • You will be able to utilise a range of different content types/approaches including: slide decks, blogs, briefing papers and visuals to /make complex information accessible.
  • These are not a PR, social media or public facing comms roles.
  • You will be working closely with our two part time staff members and at times alongside other freelancers.
  • We have put a rough price tag on each job based on an estimate of days and an £380+ day rate. We are happy to discuss this.
  • Familiarity with the food and farming sector is preferred but not essential.
  • £380+ day rate, negotiable

We have split the work into different areas of support and invite people to express interest in one or more of these depending on skills/availability.

Package 1: “Making the Case” for FTF and the Agroecology Sector

Estimated at up to 25 days at c.£380/day to end of July

Package 2: Collective Impact Communication Storyteller

Fee dependent on time/ deliverables

Package 3: Website content curation and creation support

Estimated at up to 10 days at c.£380/day to end of July

Application information

Read full details here.

Please email us with the Packages you are interested in and a covering note highlighting appropriate experience, including examples of your work (design and writing).

Please send these, and any other supporting info (e.g. CV, LinkedIn profile and recommendations), to info@farmingthefuture.uk by 21st Feb.

We will be in touch to acknowledge receipt and will invite you to have a further conversation with us if we feel you would be a good fit.

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About Farming the Future

Farming the Future is a funding intermediary and movement building collective that pools funds, networks and knowledge to grow, strengthen and connect the UK’s diverse agroecology movement. We catalyse, support and resource collaboration to create the enabling conditions for a just transition to a better system of food & farming, underpinned by agroecological and food sovereignty principles, supported by a fairer economic model and stronger social fabric across the UK.

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