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

Anti-oppressive statement: Feedback is actively seeking to move through an anti-racist and anti-oppressive journey in every aspect of its work. We acknowledge that the environmental sector is less open to people from under-represented backgrounds, and we are strongly committed to identifying and correcting where we may be perpetuating patriarchal, white supremacist values and other forms of oppression in our organisational culture, partnerships, and community work. We especially want to hear from you if you feel that you have lived experience of power structures preventing you from accessing opportunities like this.

Read our full Equity, Justice and Anti-oppression statement.

We have an opt-in guaranteed interview scheme for candidates who declare a disability and/or are a person of colour and meet the essential criteria of the role profile. We are always happy to speak to candidates informally about the role before applying and encourage you to do so by emailing jobs@feedbackglobal.org.

ABOUT US

Feedback is a campaign group working for food that is good for people and planet. We want a world where:

• All people have secure access to delicious, culturally appropriate food that is nutritious and does not cause environmental harm
• Global supply chains, farming and fishing contribute to food sovereignty, good livelihoods, mitigate climate change and enable nature to thrive
• Communities have agency to create food economies that are inclusive, equitable, resilient and celebratory

To meet these objectives, we carry out the following activities:

• We delegitimize corporations
• We ideate and advocate for policy change and regulation
• We nurture community agency
• We widen our circle of allies
• We change culture and public discourse

Read our current strategic framework.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is an exciting opportunity to develop Feedback’s pioneering research and campaigning on the UK’s excessive supply and consumption of sugar. A product whose history is shaped by the legacies of colonialism and social inequality, the UK’s sugar supply is today enough to provide every citizen with over two-and-a-half times the daily intake recommended by the UK’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) and the NHS. Meanwhile, the domestic production of sugar beet – which provides the UK with over half its sugar supply – is decimating UK topsoil, a non-renewable resource, and damaging biodiversity through the use of neonicotinoids. This is an exciting new phase in this campaign, where we are exploring new tactics to challenge sugar companies’ operations. Read more about our work on sugar.

As a member of the Feedback team, we will offer you significant development and learning opportunities including a personal training and wellbeing budget, the chance to work in a supportive and flexible team, and to build a career in environmental and food systems research, campaigning, policy, and advocacy.

JOB DESCRIPTION

This role is responsible for delivering our programme of work on sugar pollution over the next 6 months. This is a wide-ranging role, requiring an experienced campaigner with excellent project management skills, the ability to build relationships with allies, develop new avenues and relationships, produce reports, explore funding opportunities and promote policy change in support of reduced sugar supply.

Over the next six months, working closely with colleagues across Feedback, you will:

• Deliver parliamentary and civil service influencing on key policy issues related to sugar supply, including sugar imports and international trade, as well as following up a joint NGO letter to the government regarding supply and health.
• Scope out and implement novel tactics to challenge sugar companies’ operations.
• Nurture relationships with other organisations, particularly those working on health and dental health, and exploring opportunities for joint work.
• Further Feedback’s nascent work on the links between the sugar industry’s colonial history and historic harms, and current understandings of race, health and culture in the UK; and continue to integrate Feedback’s anti-oppression, equity and justice principles into this programme of work.
• Deliver company research, including a public report, on the two sugar companies in the UK, British Sugar and Tate & Lyle.
• Identify and pursue media opportunities to raise public awareness of sugar over-supply and the role of public and corporate policies in supporting this.
• Support funding bids to deliver further work on this programme.
• Adopt a learning-centre approach and implementing appropriate monitoring and evaluation processes, as well as contributing your skills and experience to wider Feedback campaigns as appropriate.
• Express our values in your work: audacity, solidarity, impact, collaboration and celebration.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Knowledge and experience:

• A proven interest in and knowledge of climate, nature and social justice, and specifically of food system or health issues, acquired through study, activism, paid or voluntary work experience.
• Knowledge of working with allies to influence policy makers

Skills:

• A proven capacity to implement effective campaigns on complex issues, including developing an approach based on a strategic perception of the issues, landscape and opportunities for change.

• Excellent project management skills – organised, and attentive to detail, and the capacity to organise and bring others with you.
• The ability to write effectively for different audiences, including high level policy audiences.
• Strong relationship building and management skills, the ability to identify strategic relationships and develop them.

Behaviours

• A can-do attitude, flexibility and adaptability, alongside a willingness to pitch in on delivery and help colleagues across the team, recognising that Feedback is a small, nimble organisation with fast-changing priorities.

• Capacity to work largely independently, with guidance and consultation with senior colleagues.

Communication

• The capacity and confidence to contribute to the strategy direction of the organisation, working with the team to do so.
• Capacity to establish strong relationships within the organisation, including with a geographically dispersed team and with international partners.

Application information

Please apply via Charity Jobs with a CV and cover letter (no longer than 2 A4 pages total) explaining how you meet the person specification and why you would like to work at Feedback.

Deadline to apply: 9am, Monday 31st March 2025

Successful candidates for interview will be notified by Thursday 3rd April 2025

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 9th April 2025

For any questions, access requirements, or if you require the job description in a different format, please contact jobs@feedbackglobal.org.

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