Job description (via Feedback)
ABOUT US
Feedback is a campaign group working for food that is good for people and planet. We want a world where:
- All people have secure access to delicious, culturally appropriate food that is nutritious and does not cause environmental harm
- Global supply chains, farming and fishing contribute to food sovereignty, good livelihoods, mitigate climate change and enable nature to thrive
- Communities have agency to create food economies that are inclusive, equitable, resilient and celebratory
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is an exciting opportunity to develop Feedback’s pioneering research and campaigning on the shift from destructive diets to food environments which support health, climate, nature and justice. Your brief will be to manage our ongoing campaigning for changes to food environments, through public policy and corporate practice, particularly by retailers and regulators, to achieve climate- and nature-safe consumption patterns. This is an exciting new phase in this campaign, where we are exploring new tactics including legal avenues and investor-focused campaigning.
The work is managed jointly between Feedback UK and our sister organisation Feedback EU, based in The Hague in the Netherlands, so frequent travel between these locations will be essential. We are open to candidates currently based (and with the right to work) either in the UK or in the Netherlands.
Feedback has been at the forefront of campaigning on food production and consumption for well over a decade. We were one of the first NGOs to call for meat and livestock reduction as a climate mitigation measure and the first to develop a programme of work drawing attention to the role of the global financial sector in fuelling expansion of meat and dairy production. Our ground-breaking campaigning on aquaculture has highlighted the harms caused by the rapid expansion of fish farming and high levels of consumption of intensively farmed salmon, which include deleterious effects on wild fish populations, food security and global justice through unsustainable sourcing of feed. At the same time, Feedback teams in Liverpool, Brighton, Buckinghamshire and The Hague are exploring community food priorities, responding to urgent need and piloting new types of food economy. This breadth of work, from the grassroots to the grasstips, is what makes Feedback unique.
You will bring an eye for an unexpected campaign angle, political nous, ability to jump on opportunities for action, as well as your capacity to manage a project, and develop and support your colleagues. Everyone at Feedback is engaged in our journey towards fully embodying our principles of equity, justice and anti-oppression (see our statement here), and as a Campaign Manager you will bring a sharp awareness of embedded current and historic injustice in the food system. Experience working at a European level, and with a wide network of partners, would be an asset.
In return, we will offer you significant development and learning opportunities including a personal training and wellbeing budget, the chance to work in a supportive and flexible team, and to build a career in environmental and food systems research, campaigning, policy, and advocacy. We look forward to welcoming you to our team.
