Children's Food Campaign Officer - London, United Kingdom - Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming

Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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We all want our children to grow up with nutritious, affordable and tasty food. But for many children across the UK this isn't the case. Millions are living in households experiencing food insecurity and children are being constantly bombarded with unhealthy advertising. We believe it doesn't have to be this way.

We're holding the government and the food and drink industry to account to give children a chance at the healthy future they deserve.

The Children's Food Campaign is one of the most widely endorsed campaigns in the UK, currently supported by over 150 national organisations and thousands of concerned individuals.

We have already had many successes, including helping to bring about some of the strongest legislation in the world to protect children from junk food advertising on television, and helping to secure nutritional standards for school meals and practical cooking lessons for school children.

This role will focus on supporting these distinct areas of the Children's Food Campaign's work: 1) supporting CFC's core activities, as described below in more detail 2) improving our engagement with, and representation of diverse communities through our work and 3) our new campaign calling for extension of universal free school meals.

This role is funded with the kind support of Impact on Urban Health.

Tasks and responsibilities

The project officer will have a varied workload, and also work in collaboration with other staff across Sustain (especially those working on Food Poverty, Sustainable Food Places and Public Affairs teams) and with the CFC working party, alliance members and networks.

1. Core Activities

The responsibilities will include:

Engaging with key external stakeholders, CFC members, relevant Sustain members, education and food organisations, academics and others to regular updates on project developments, as well as to invite further advice, feedback and participation in dissemination.
Leading on the maintenance of the CFC webpages to represent our current work and successes.
Supporting the organisation of internal and external meetings, webinars, roundtables or events being organised as part of the project.
Supporting any media, PR and social media dissemination required as part of the project.
Maintain excellent financial and other records, to help with accountability and open to public scrutiny. The Officer will work with Sustain's finance and management team to report to the funder, Sustain's trustees, the project working party and subgroups.
Supporting colleagues on responding to Government consultations relevant to children's food.
Supporting colleagues with our longer term policy development on new levers for healthy food

2. Engagement with diverse and under-represented communities
This role will lead work on new models for driving our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion in our work, by:

Refreshing and relaunching our Parents' Jury, to develop a new set of parent ambassadors bringing a more diverse range of experience, with stronger emphasis on geographical, ethnic background and socio-economic situations, and our commitment to tackling health inequalities.
Identify partnership models for children's and young people's participation in our research, influencing and campaigning.
Exploring further options for creation of relevant panels/ambassadors drawing from key professions relevant to children's food for specific projects and initiatives eg. Teachers, local public health professionals.

3. Universal Free School Meals

The responsibilities will include:

Coordinating an advisory group for the project, made of key stakeholders and project partners, ensuring timely meetings, producing documentation for meetings, maintaining accurate notes of decisions and actions from them, and following up on actions.
Supporting the development of key resources and campaigning assets to support the overall objectives of the project including but not limited to short films, blogs, infographics, interviews, news items, web pages, images and social media assets.
Assisting with research, policy, political insight and data analysis, in order to support the development of policy briefings, political engagement, and our work to engage with parliamentarians.
Managing relationships with any creative communication agencies or freelancers to support the delivery of campaign materials.
Working with partners to secure the participation of a diversity of children and young people's voices and their parents as part of development of campaign materials and events, especially those with lived experience of free school meals, or being excluded from participation in free school meals.

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.

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