Community Education Officer

We’re recruiting 2 x Community Education Officers to join the team in Merseyside. One role is
available at 2 days per week, the other role is available at 4 days per week. Please make it
clear the role type you are applying for in your cover letter.

Community Education Officer – Liverpool (2 days or 4 days per week)
Reporting to: Senior Project Manager
Salary: £24,375 per annum, pro rata (£9,750 per annum for 2 days per week, or,
£19,500 per annum for 4 days per week)
Hours: 2 or 4 days (15 or 30 hours) per week, with flexibility of working
hours (core hours 10.00-16.00)
Duration: Fixed Term – 15 months
Start date: As soon as possible
Location: This role is based in Merseyside and is currently homeworking with
travel within the region, and weekly in-person team meetings. We recommend that this role
visits the London office a minimum of once a quarter.

Anti-oppressive statement: Feedback is actively seeking to move through an
anti-racist and anti-oppressive journey in every aspect of its work. We acknowledge that the
environmental sector is less open to people from under-represented backgrounds, and we are
strongly committed to identifying and correcting where we may be perpetuating patriarchal,
white supremacist values and other forms of oppression in our organisational culture,
partnerships, and community work. We especially want to hear from you if you feel that you have
lived experience of power structures preventing you from accessing opportunities like this. 

ABOUT US 

Feedback is a UK- and Netherlands-based 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 

To meet these objectives, we carry out the following activities: 

• We delegitimize corporations 
• We ideate and advocate for policy change and regulation
• We nurture community agency 
• We widen our circle of allies 
• We change culture and public discourse 

ABOUT THE ROLE 

The Community Education Officer plays an important role in both collaborating with communities
to take part in shared learning and disseminating findings to wider audiences throughout the
project, informing how it develops and boosting its impact. You will work in partnership with
individuals and their communities, under the supervision of the Senior Project Manager as part
of the education and advocacy programme. This will include cooperative identification of
changes to the food system in Knowsley in the last century, engaging project participants in
discussing those changes and raising awareness to wider audiences, supporting the project to
achieve its aim of creating a shared understanding and celebrating Knowsley’s heritage and
influencing strategies to shape the future of the borough, through sustained, quality
engagement. You will support the Community Research Coordinator to capture qualitative and
quantitative data that will inform reporting and contribute project monitoring and evaluation,
participant outcomes and signposting groups & individuals to project activities with the
aim of improving community participation & influence in our work.

The post holder will need to be proactive, working both independently and as part of a team,
whilst managing and prioritising a busy workload.

The main strategic aims this role is responsible for:

Aim 8: FAIR ACCESS TO GOOD FOOD  

By the end of 2025, low-income communities in the UK will have secure, dignified access to
nutritious food with low environmental impact, challenging the supermarket redistribution and
food bank model

Aim 9: COMMUNITY-ANCHORED FOOD ECONOMIES  

By the end of 2025, regional, participatory, celebratory food economies anchored in place and
community will grow, challenging the corporate food model.

Key Responsibilities 

• Primary responsibility for leading the collaborative learning process with community
  stakeholders in Knowsley (e.g., community groups, local schools).
• Work with individuals, groups and communities to explore the food and farming heritage of
  Knowsley, creating a shared understanding of what came before Knowsley’s establishment as a
  Metropolitan Borough.
• Contribution towards the planning and execution of events and workshops in Knowsley in
  collaboration with the team at Feedback and key community stakeholders.
• Primary responsibility for creating educational resources from information obtained through
  delivery of Feedback Global’s Heritage Lottery Fund Project, to be utilised throughout this
  project and in future.
• Working alongside the project delivery team you will work to capture stories and knowledge
  about residents’ experiences of growing, producing and consuming local or seasonal food.
• Celebrate Knowsley and its heritage through the creation of projects and workshops in
  collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Create educational resources from information obtained considering the present and future
  possibilities.
• Capture stories and knowledge about residents’ experiences of growing, producing and
  consuming local or seasonal food over time.
• Work closely with stakeholders to reach project outcomes
• Produce tangible solutions to issues Knowsley faces
• Use information obtained for advocacy and campaigns to benefit neighbourhoods, change that
  improves land use, access to fresh locally produced food and creates upskilling and employment
  opportunities.
• Explore Knowsley archives to understand changes in land use.
• Collate a multitude of existing heritage materials whilst adding dialogue from living
  residents.
• Assist with the recruitment and ongoing communication between community curators.
• A commitment to the objectives and core values of Feedback – Collaboration, Celebration,
  Audacity, Solidarity, Impact.
• A commitment to Feedback’s anti-oppression work.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential criteria:

• Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills and the ability to work alongside a
  wide range of stakeholders.
• High level of IT skills
• Experience of engagement in local community settings.
• Knowledge and interest in food as a way to engage people in advocacy for change.
• Awareness of partners, stakeholders and projects within Knowsley and the wider Merseyside
  area.
• Ability to regularly travel in and around Knowsley (public transport, cycle or drive)

Deadline to apply: 12pm, Monday 21st October 2024

Successful candidates for interview will be notified by Thursday 24th October 2024.

Interviews will be held week commencing 28th October 2024.

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format, please contact us.