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

Farm Discovery Programme Manager

The Country Trust
Remote working

Posted: 8 Apr 2025

Deadline: 30 Apr 2025

Compensation: £39,000 per year

Paid Full-time Part-time Flexible hours Permanent Remote working

Job description

Employed, permanent contract. 

• Hours: 35 hours per week. We are open to considering a job share arrangement for the right candidates  
• Salary: £39,000  per year
• Location: Homeworking  
• Reports to: Head of Programmes   
• Oversight of a delivery team: Yes (currently 30 plus self-employed coordinators)    
• Travel: Travel across the country to visit our activities, including overnight stays, is part of this role. All related expenses will be covered by The Country Trust
• Annual leave: 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (FTE)  
• Benefits: Workplace pension. Homeworking, some flexibility on working hours  

Are you passionate about connecting disadvantaged children with food, farming, and nature? 

We're looking for a dedicated and experienced Programme Manager—an inspiring, child-centred educator with a deep commitment to tackling poverty of opportunity. 

Through effective team management and leadership, and collaboration with colleagues, this role enables a large team of expert practitioners to deliver the charity’s mission of providing high quality, educational, relevant, safe and impactful Farm Discovery visits and related activities for disadvantaged children across England and North Wales.  

Could you:  

• Lead our dispersed Farm Discovery team of expert practitioners, ensuring all our processes - recruitment, training, administration, reporting, information management, communication, budgeting, evaluation and of course our delivery - enable us to achieve amazing things with primary school communities in disadvantaged areas around the country?  
• Work with others to grow and shape our programmes to achieve our vision?  
• As an inspiring advocate of our work, build our contribution to the national conversation around food, farming and nature education? 

 If so, would love to hear from you!    Due to our safer recruitment process we are not able to accept CVs for this position.  

Applications close: noon 30th April  

First round interviews (held virtually) will be on Wednesday 7th May. Second round interviews will be held face-to-face in London on Wednesday 14th May.   

For enquiries about this role please email: senior-recruitment@countrytrust.org.uk

Application information

Please apply at https://www.countrytrust.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us/

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