Project Co-ordinator

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom The University of Manchester Full time

The Division seeks to appoint a Project Co-ordinator to work in the Manchester Centre for Health Psychology at the University of Manchester. This is a part time post working on a research project funded by the BBSRC called Farm Urban Manchester.

The project involves both agriculture and social science to create a high profile, UK of a “Protected and Controlled Environment (PACE) urban farm.

The agricultural side of the project will aim to:

- Produce sufficient, good quality and consistent crops to meet commercial demand and be financially viable
- Successfully grow less usual crops, that can offer better flavour and nutrition than those produced through more conventional farming methods, and which have social and cultural significance to a multi cultural community

The social science side of the project will aim to:

- Help to make the idea of farming in this way more acceptable to communities - both local people / individual consumers, and also to the food and hospitality industry (restaurants, wholesalers, retailers). Demystifying the world of ‘urban farming’, myth bust, and encourage people to engage and adopt
- Help to address issues of inequality around access to healthy food across urban communities, creating a source of healthy food, and then engaging people in a meaningful way, so that they feel inspired, and able, to include it in their lives.

We are looking for a person with experience of community engagement preferably in relation to urban farming or healthy eating.

Project Co-ordinator (40%)

The ProjectCo-ordinator will work closely with our Post Doctoral Research Associate by using the feedback from research conducted with community groups to improve community engagement. This strand of activity ensures that local voices shape the project, both in terms of how the PACE farms operate, what the farms produce, where and how the produce is distributed and what the longer-term future of PACE growing across Manchester might look like. The Project Co-ordinator will set up events and activities (e.g., cookery classes, tasting sessions, skills exchanges between professional chefs and local communities, as well as PACE farm produce boxes available to buy or donated) and evaluate them.

**What you will get in return**:

- Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
- Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
- Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
- Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
- Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.
- Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift._

**Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews**:
Name: Tracy Epton

**General enquiries**:
**Technical support**:
**Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.

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