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Community Food Team Manager
Greener Kirkcaldy
Full-time
Kirkcaldy
Hybrid
£ 38,313
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Application closing date:
May 5, 2025
About the organisation
- Greener Kirkcaldy is a community-led charity working locally to bring people together, take positive action on the climate emergency and support people through fuel poverty and food insecurity. We deliver a range of projects, events and skills training to achieve the needs and goals of local people – building resilience as a community and working towards a future where everyone can live better and tread more lightly on our planet.
About the vacancy
- As Community Food Team Manager, you will lead the development, planning and management of our vibrant and busy community kitchen, ensuring delivery of a varied programme of community events and activities, in accordance with our values, funding commitments and social enterprise aspirations. You will also lead the development of new and enterprising ideas to grow our vision of a place for people to come together to grow, cook, eat and learn, working with the Senior Leadership Team to secure the resources to develop new project ideas.
You will use your leadership skills to manage and support the development of a team of four and ensure our Community Food Volunteers are adequately supported, supervised and celebrated.
You will use your existing knowledge of the local social, political and cultural community food landscape to ensure Greener Kirkcaldy continues to be recognised as an informed, trustworthy and impactful organisation by funders, partners and decision-makers in the sector.
Key Responsibilities
- • Provide line management, support and supervision to your team.
• Set and achieve targets and outcomes in agreement with the Programme.
Manager and other colleagues.
• Develop and write funding applications, and manage the delivery of several grant-funded projects.
• Develop and oversee delivery of social enterprise (income-generating) activities.
• Ensure outputs and outcomes are delivered in a timely manner.
• Coordinate monitoring and evaluation and report on progress, both internally and externally.
• Manage delegated budgets.
• Liaise and network with funders, partners and other stakeholders, developing positive relationships.
• Communicate effectively with other Greener Kirkcaldy teams, particularly the Growing and Nature Project, and external partners to deliver joint projects and activities.
• Work with Greener Kirkcaldy’s Communications Team to promote activities and campaigns.
• Take part in the Greener Kirkcaldy Leadership Forum, participate in other cross-team working groups and contribute to other Greener Kirkcaldy leadership activities, including attending Board meetings, as required.
Lead and support your team to:
• Develop and deliver a varied range of activities, including cooking classes,
workshops and training, community meals, volunteering opportunities and
employability placements.
• Support the development and delivery of our community fridge and food waste
reduction projects.
• Work with volunteers and support their development, skills and confidence,
alongside Greener Kirkcaldy’s Volunteer Coordinator.
• Develop and deliver a range of income-generating social enterprise activities.
• Coordinate external hiring of the kitchen spaces and prepare for kitchen hires.
• Work with local partners and attend outreach events.
• Build their individual knowledge, skills and networks to support their ongoing development.
General responsibilities
• Work as part of the Greener Kirkcaldy team to promote and encourage understanding of environmental issues.
• Promote the values of Greener Kirkcaldy when working in the local community.
Comply fully with the organisation ethos, policies and procedures and relevant legislation.
• Attend and contribute to team meetings and training courses.
• Undertake other duties in line with the job purpose.
Key Competencies
- Qualifications, skills and experience:
• Excellent people and communication skills.
• Experience of line management and excellent leadership skills.
• Ability to engage and empower people with different skillsets and backgrounds.
• Ability to plan, manage and report on projects.
• Ability to develop new and engaging activities.
• Good literacy, numeracy and IT skills.
• Organised, able to work under pressure and plan a diverse workload.
• Experience of working in a food or cooking role.
• Experience of working with volunteers.
Knowledge:
• Knowledge of local and national social, political and cultural food landscapes.
• Knowledge of social enterprise and relevant methods for generating income.
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation approaches.
Personal qualities:
• A positive, enthusiastic and supportive attitude.
• Passionate about sharing skills and knowledge about food and sustainable eating.
• Proactive, self-motivated and able to use own initiative.
• Flexible and able to adapt according to the needs of the organisation.
• A willingness for continued learning and personal development.
• Enthusiastic about engaging people to tackle the climate emergency and/or supporting people in hardship.
Desired Qualifications
- No specific qualifications are required.
How to Apply
Application forms should be submitted to jobs@greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk by 9am on Monday 5th May 2025. You must use the application form – we will not accept CVs.
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