Feeding Liverpool Director
Feeding Liverpool is the city of Liverpool’s food alliance – connecting and equipping people and organisations to work towards good food for all. See here for more details.
Building on our work since 2015 tackling hunger and food insecurity, Feeding Liverpool lead Liverpool’s Good Food Plan in partnership with communities and organisations across the city.
We are looking for a new Director – someone who can pick up our story from the last 8 years and shape the next chapter.
This is an exciting time to join our movement. The organisation is in excellent health: we have secure and stable funding, a creative and dynamic staff team, a strong Trustee board and a fantastically committed group of partners and member organisations. Liverpool is full of inspirational people who are active in building a city based on good food for everyone, whether that is those who experience food insecurity on a day-to-day basis, health workers, growers, restaurateurs or volunteers at community food initiatives. Our work is led by their voices; we view ourselves as pioneering, with our alliance-based approach serving as a national exemplar.
But we have a lot to do. Liverpool still has high levels of food insecurity, stark health inequalities and a community food movement that is vulnerable to food inflation and supply issues.
Our new Director will continue to shape and influence the way the food system works in order to develop and grow our community food movement, as well as grapple with the complex issues of food supply issues and insecurity.
We would refer potential candidates to our website for stories, reports and strategies that outline our approach. We have also developed a detailed job description and person specification, which outlines the character and competencies needed for the role.
This includes:
- Outstanding Leader Skills – leading both our organisation and its team, but also wider systems as we work together to achieve our vision
- Excellent Communication Skills – this role will require someone who is not only able to participate within communities, but who can advise and direct Liverpool’s strategic leaders
- Personal Values That Match Those Of Feeding Liverpool – a passion and commitment for Good Food For All, a heart for those who struggle to access good food, a real belief in the value of other’s opinions (regardless of background) and the drive, determination and creativity to bring about lasting change
- Experience Of Organisational Management – a track record of collaboration and building lasting partnerships
Our new Director will need to be hands-on and active within our communities. There is the opportunity to work from home occasionally, but the role requires you to be based in or near Liverpool.
Please read the Feeding Liverpool Director Job Description here.
Applications should be made through the Charity Jobs website: www.charityjob.co.uk or via submission of CV and cover letter to Tracy: [email protected].
All queries relating to this role should be directed to Tracy via email [email protected] or telephone 07814765503.
We are operating on an open deadline, and are scheduling interviews as applications come in. Therefore, we encourage applications to be submitted as soon as possible.
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