Advertiser's description (via Roots to Work):
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 this role
The Diversity Outreach Coordinator is a new role for Sustain, aiming to help us build better opportunities, connections and allyship. We want our work to involve and support people and communities experiencing inequity due to structural injustice, and with people with experience, identities and from backgrounds that are currently under-represented in our sector. In particular, Sustain recognises the extent and depth of racial and economic injustice in the food system, hence the particular focus on these issues within this role.
The Diversity Outreach Coordinator role will evolve, and the person appointed will work with the senior leadership team and others at Sustain to shape the role over time. However, as this is a big theme, we want the person to be able to have a clear focus on some key objectives over the next two years, namely:
- Building positive relationships with young adults, and with organisations and institutions who work with young adults. In the first instance, this will be mainly in the higher education sector and potentially other relevant sectors, aiming to inform and inspire young adults on food and farming that is better for people, equity and the planet, and link them with opportunities to get involved.
- Building positive relationships and working connections with organisers and organisations that have backgrounds, identities, experiences and perspectives that are currently under-represented in our sector; and to link them with opportunities to get involved with our projects and campaigns and to influence, contribute to and benefit from the work of Sustain and our alliance.
- Building understanding, momentum and skills within Sustain and among Sustain alliance members and allies on diversity outreach and related matters, organising and running sessions of the Food Learning Forum to cover relevant issues.
In all of the above key areas, we will prioritise outreach to, and opportunities for, people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds; and people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds (with some intersection, but this is not assumed; and this could develop into work focusing on other aspects of diversity in future). The Diversity Outreach Coordinator will organise a working party to help pursue these goals, for mutual benefit and support. They might also establish and work with an advisory group of people with lived experience of matters relevant to the work, to ensure that our work is grounded in authenticity and good practice.
Apply by 8th June. For job description and to apply click here.
