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Job title: Local Food Retail Coordinator (Maternity Cover)
Organisation: Sustain the alliance for
better food and farming
Gross Annual Salary: £45,338 full-time pro rata (post offered at 0.8 FTE). This is a pay level 6 salary. This salary
increases annually in April each year according to Sustain’s pay scale and progression, subject
to satisfactory performance. In addition, Sustain matches pension contributions up to 5% of
gross salary.
Hours: 0.8 FTE (4 days per week)
Location: Role is office-based in Cambridge Heath, London. Sustain offers working from home up to half of
working hours, on request and subject to agreement after probation.
Position type: Maternity cover (9 months)
Annual Leave: 25 days Annual Leave based on 0.8 FTE (comprises of 16 days Basic Annual Leave + FTE proportion
of public holidays + office closures) rising annually by 2 days to a top limit of 29 days.
Closing date: 10am, Tuesday 23 January 2024
Equal opportunities: Sustain is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive employer, including recruiting for
diversity. Read more about our approach here.
Right to Work: Entitlement to work in the UK. Sustain is not able to assist with applications for work
permits.
Other details: Cycle to Work scheme available on salary sacrifice basis.
About Sustain
Sustain is a powerful alliance bringing together around 100 organisations
nationally – and hundreds more at local and regional level. We believe everyone should have
access to healthy and sustainably produced food that protects people, animals, and planet.
Working together, we run highly effective and creative campaigns, advocacy, networks, and
demonstration projects, aiming to catalyse permanent changes in policy and practice, and to
help equip more people and communities with skills as change-makers.
About Sustain’s work on Local Food
While this is a relatively new project, delivered under Sustain’s Good Food Economy theme, our
alliance has a long history working on local food in all its forms, from groundbreaking work on
food miles in the 1990s, helping to steer the lottery programmes supporting Local Food, to more
recently making the Case
for Local Food to inform the Government’s Food Strategy.
For Sustain, local food is more than the proximity between farm and consumer; it focuses on the
myriad benefits associated with models that embody the local food ethos, accompanied by a
social structure and supply chain different from the large-scale supermarket system.
Localised food systems can play a huge part in community renewal, providing more and better
jobs in neighbourhoods, keeping money in local economies, delivering more for climate and
nature on farms, and creating more responsive and adaptable supply chains. They are an
important route to market for agroecological farmers, reducing emissions from transport,
refrigeration and waste, and support more mixed farming systems.
Why now?
In brief, the timing for local food is critical as we recognised local food economies can:
To address these challenges, Sustain and partners want to build a collective voice and plan for
alternative supply chains to create opportunities for concerted policy support, investment, and
profile to compete.
About the project
Overarching aim of the role: To develop a multi-organisational programme to catalyse better,
fairer, and more resilient trading in local food, to support nature friendly farmer-focused
supply chains across the UK.
The project started in May 2023, thanks to funding from the Rothschild Foundation, who have
also funded complimentary programmes being led by the Landworkers’ Alliance.
The main workstreams of the role our outlined below, which have been started and take place
over the course of 2 years (current end date April 2025):
Workstream 1 – Growth Plan
Develop a growth plan for increased retail market share for independent retail over the next 10
years, to help diversify supply chains and drive routes to market for agroecological produce.
Note: We are not suggesting we can deliver it in full alone, rather we will advocate that
Government, local and regional authorities, entrepreneurs, local development funders and other
players adopt and implement this.
This plan should include:
Workstream 2 – Advocacy for Local Food Infrastructure Fund and other relevant policy
levers
Encourage other investors to support the growth plan (WS1) through investment, ideally as a
formal Local Food Infrastructure Fund for the UK. This would also include:
Workstream 3 – Research/Evaluation
The project has some budget secured to bring in support for WS1 (to support writing and
consultation of the Growth Plan) and WS3 (collection of data). We envisage that future phases
of the programme would include amongst other strands: securing investment for the sector;
delivery of the Growth Plan; detailed mapping to identify localised needs and opportunities;
national and local advocacy for complimentary policies; a large-scale public communications,
media and marketing campaign.
Tasks and responsibilities
For the 9-month maternity cover role, the coordinator will be responsible for the delivery of
Sustain’s funded project on Local Food Retail. These responsibilities will include:
The Coordinator will also:
The post holder will also undertake any other responsibilities in connection with the work that
may arise from time to time, which may in the future include line management responsibilities.
Personal specification
Sustain is seeking a creative and experienced individual with strong team working and
partnership building skills, who shares our commitment to local and sustainable food, with the
following skills and experience.
Essential:
Desirable:
Diversity
The person appointed will contribute to the mutually supportive culture of Sustain (including
staff and project participants) in which equality and diversity are not just respected but
promoted. Visit our
website here for some useful advice if you are applying for a job at Sustain.
Sustain is recruiting for this role as part of our Ethnicity Confident and Disability Confident
schemes. Applicants who meet all the essential criteria, and who let us know voluntarily (via
our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form) that you would like to be considered in this way, will
have an enhanced chance of gaining a first-stage interview.
Sustain welcomes applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, class,
socio-economic background, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or
belief. We are happy to discuss and consider flexible working at the point of hire. We
particularly encourage applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with
diverse identities related to gender and sexuality, and people with disabilities. This is
because these groups are currently underrepresented at Sustain. Where two or more candidates
are judged to be of equal merit, priority may be given to a candidate who belongs to a group
less represented at Sustain.
How to apply
For further information about this role, download the full
job description.
To apply for this position, please email [email protected] the following:
As we are recruiting for several positions over this period, please put ‘Local Food
Retail Coordinator’ in the subject line of your covering email along with your name.
Deadline: 10am, Tuesday 23 January 2024
First-stage interviews for this position will take place (virtually) week commencing 29 January
2024, with second-stage interviews taking place in-person week commencing 5 February 2024 if
needed. Please indicate in your application if you are not available either of these weeks,
although we cannot guarantee we can accommodate requests for alternative timings.
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