Local Action Officer - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming

Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming
Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming
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Cambridge, United Kingdom

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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 Sustainable Food Places (SFP)

The SFP Network is a rapidly growing movement of 90 food partnerships in cities and other
municipalities across the UK. Through these cross-sector food partnerships, local authorities
and other public bodies are working together with third sector, businesses and academic
organisations to transform their local food system with the aim of improving public health and
wellbeing; fostering community connection and resilience; building prosperous and diverse local
food economies; and helping to tackle the critical sustainability issues of waste and the
climate and nature emergency. Sustain is the lead organisation on campaigns and good food
movement and manages support to the network ranging from grants to coordinated campaigns
actions and advocacy on behalf of the network.

About Sustain's work on the climate and nature emergency

The food and farming system is responsible for about a third of greenhouse gas emissions
globally, but barely features on the Government's net zero plan, nor in local and international
climate action plans. Food For The Planet is Sustain's campaign to get food taken more
seriously as a cause of, and solution to, the climate and nature emergency, and for this to
result in practical action by government, local authorities, food procurement officers and
other decision-makers and purse-holders. We want to see impactful solutions around food and
farming feature in climate change policies and action at a local and national level, through
better food standards for the public sector, climate-friendly advertising, progressive planning
policy, elimination of food waste and policies that help more sustainable and equitable food
businesses to thrive. Our focus is on making healthy and sustainable food and climate-friendly
diets more available, attractive and affordable, using big levers of change. The Food for the
Planet website sets out the focus of our work to instigate change at a local level.


About this role:
tasks and responsibilities

The Local Action Officer will have a varied and exciting workload, will work closely to support
the work of the Local Action Coordinator, the Head of Local Action and the Climate and Nature
Emergency coordinator and will work in collaboration with Sustain's senior management,
campaigns staff, and project partners.


The Officer's responsibilities will include:
Local engagement

Work with SFP and Food for the Planet campaigns team to support research and campaign
actions engaging food partnerships and local councils.

Support SFP and Sustain staff on local engagement on time-specific national thematic
campaign actions, including Good to Grow Day engaging people in community food growing.

Draft report on the performance of councils in the UK on climate change and food and help
deliver our strategy to share the results widely.

Work with the Local Action Coordinator to support local SFP members around the country to
engage in the annual Day of Celebration and Action, including support before and on the day.

Campaigns support

Amplify the voices of those working at grassroots level in local areas or in different
settings to ensure they are heard at a national level.

Support the Climate and Nature Campaign Coordinator on a range of campaigning activity
including e-actions, communication with policymakers, writing briefings, convening and
consulting sector experts and working party members, and consulting with stakeholders.

Maintain the workplan and systems for managing and monitoring engagement with Day of
Celebration and Action, Good to Grow Day and Food for the Planet partners.

Organise a series of webinars and/or workshops to help campaigners across the UK and Europe
learn from each other about key campaign topics, in support of the SFP campaigns including Veg
Cities or Food for the Planet.

Maintain excellent relationships with national organisations, Food for the Planet campaign
and SFP partners - and to organise regular meetings with them to inform the work.

Support administration/monitoring of grants to Veg Cities, Food for the Planet and Good
Food Economy campaigns and other admin support as required

Communications

Create and promote an engaging online and media campaign presence via the website(s), SFP
network newsletter, external communications, traditional media and social media i.e. running
the Veg Cities and Good to Grow twitter and Instagram accounts.

Work with S
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