Food Projects Coordinator

**Job description**

**About the role**

**Job Title**:Food Projects Coordinator

**Employer**: Hands Together Ludlow

**Salary**: £24,000pa pro rata

**Hours**: 28 hours a week over four days (must include Tuesdays)

**Contract**: Permanent

**Start**: As soon as possible

Hands Together Ludlow works with partners, stakeholders and volunteers to create a more equitable community in and around Ludlow by reducing isolation, poor health and wellbeing and financial hardship. By bringing volunteers and beneficiaries together though a range of services, we fill the gaps, provide opportunities and support the community to support itself.

We do this in a number of ways including:

- Providing Tuesday Community Lunch, Wednesday Afternoon Tea and our ‘Company at Christmas’ Christmas Day lunch.
- Providing a Community Helpline and emergency prescription delivery for those unable to leave home.
- Offering Healthy Eating classes and support.
- Social Prescribing activities.
- Helping people get to important appointments with volunteer drivers.
- Running the local Men’s Shed.
- A weekly Good Start Together toddler group for parents experiencing difficulties.
- Our monthly Good Grief Café.
- Recruiting and supporting local volunteers and providing ways to engage the community.
- And a range of other interventions to help those in need.

The role will be based primarily in our Ludlow office, with some activity in other venues in the town as required.

You will be an organised and enthusiastic individual, ready to join an organisation where no day is the same. If you enjoy working in a collaborative environment, are passionate about supporting the people of Ludlow and show strong interest in working for a charity, then this is an ideal opportunity for you. We’d love to hear from you.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Project Management and Food Services**
- Work with partners and staff to identify opportunities to develop and deliver new food services based on identified need and in line with the charitable objectives.
- Be the lead Hands Together Ludlow representative for the Shropshire Good Food Partnership.
- Develop, maintain, and manage relationships with partners and organisations for food surplus donations and organise deliveries/collections.
- Ensure effective, safe and consistent delivery of all current food activity.
- Work with multiple agencies to establish good working relationships to enhance provision and increase support to service users and volunteers.
- Plan, develop, chair and grow our Food Group meetings and attend Food Network meetings to inform practice and identify opportunities.
- Identify external funding opportunities to maintain and develop the Food Services activities within Hands Together Ludlow.
- Develop materials to support activity such as menu packs and course content.
- Develop and lead on new food activity such as detached food work with young people, new cookery courses and pop-up demonstrations.
- Work with the council to ensure we achieve and maintain 5-star food hygiene ratings.
- Manage food stock, storage and turnover and equipment for food activities.

**Volunteer management**
- Work with the volunteer coordinator to recruit, train and support volunteers needed for food activities.
- Identify training needs, write, organise, and deliver training programmes as appropriate.
- Support and manage kitchen volunteers producing and serving our weekly community lunch, including cooking the meal if volunteers are not available.
- Supervise and keep food volunteers up to date with information and training and monitor compliance with food safety and hygiene regulations and working practices.
- Maintain and develop policies, guidelines and practice relating to food activities.
- Generate appropriate volunteering opportunities and role descriptions based on the needs of the organisation.
- Organise rotas and activity of volunteers where necessary.

**General**
- Engage with the project planning and budgeting processes and procedures for Hands Together Ludlow
- Be alert to any Safeguarding concerns and processes.
- Support beneficiaries to access food related activity.
- Monitor and evaluate activities and provide regular and timely reports.
- Maintain accurate records and undertake other administrative duties.
- Ensure Health and Safety compliance and risk assess projects/activities.

These duties are illustrative and not exhaustive. The post holder will be expected to become involved in a range of work to support the development and delivery of Hands Together Ludlow.

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 28 per week

**Salary**: £19,200.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Flexitime
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Ludlow: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Project management (preferably with food): 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

- United K