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About the Role
Lead School Food Matters' work to strengthen support for secondary schools during the implementation of new school food standards. Develop and embed an evidence-based approach to secondary school food improvement, creating practical support and resources to help schools achieve meaningful improvements in meal uptake, student experience, and food culture.
Responsibilities
- Review and synthesize learning from School Food Matters' Nourish and food education programmes in secondary schools.
- Develop and refine School Food Matters' approach to supporting secondary schools across Nourish and food education programmes.
- Line-manage the Nourish Secondaries Project Officer, supporting them to deliver the programme in secondary schools in London.
- Facilitate learning sessions across School Food Matters' teams and embed learning into programme delivery.
- Convene learning sessions, workshops, and communities of practice with partners working to improve secondary school food and food culture.
- Develop and manage the budget and distribution plan of the partner ‘learning and activities’ fund.
- Work with schools, young people, Multi Academy Trusts, local authorities, and partners to identify practical implementation challenges and evidence-based solutions.
- Develop materials and practical support for secondary schools implementing the school food standards.
- Create resources that address common secondary school challenges, including meal uptake, student engagement, menu changes, dining environments, and food culture.
- Work directly with secondary schools to test and refine approaches and joint resource development.
- Develop written and digital case studies from schools and partners showcasing effective practice.
- Share learning through webinars, events, online platforms, and sector networks.
- Work closely with the Impact and Strategy Manager to complete all monitoring and evaluation.
- Maintain an excellent relationship with the Nutritional Wellbeing Foundation and support with written and verbal reports.
- Keep line manager updated on progress.
- Contribute to the smooth running of School Food Matters.
- Stay up to date with safeguarding requirements and reporting procedures.
- Maintain the ethos of the charity and positively promote our work at all times.
- Undertake any other tasks relevant to the affairs of School Food Matters.
Requirements
- Proven experience of managing and delivering complex projects involving multiple organisations and workstreams.
- Experience of building and maintaining effective partnerships, coalitions, or networks across organisations and sectors.
- Strong facilitation and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of sectors including schools, funders, charities, local authorities, and young people.
- Excellent written communication skills, including producing reports, guidance, case studies, or resources for different audiences.
- Excellent administrative and organisational skills with great attention to detail and ability to manage deadlines.
- Ability to work independently, prioritise workload, and take initiative.
- Strong interest in our mission to improve children and young people’s health through better food and food education in schools.
- A positive, collaborative, and solution-focused approach.
- Experience of working directly with schools, particularly secondary schools (desirable).
- Experience of working for a charity, public, or education sectors (desirable).
- Knowledge of school food, food education, public health, youth engagement, or related fields (desirable).
- Understanding of the secondary school system, academy trusts, and/or local authority education settings (desirable).
Skills
- Facilitation
- Relationship-building
- Written communication
- Administrative
- Organisational
- Project management
- Partnership building
- Coalition building
- Network building
- Independent work
- Prioritization
- Initiative
- Solution-focused approach
Location
- Blackfriars Settlement, 9 Rushworth Street, London, SE1 0RB
Work Type
- Fixed term
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Project management experience
- Partnership building experience
- Direct school experience (desirable)
- Charity/public/education sector experience (desirable)
Benefits
- Pension contributions at 7% of pensionable earnings
- 31 days holiday including bank holidays
About the Company
- School Food Matters is a national charity delivering school food transformation and food education to children and young people across the country.
- We believe that school food can unlock a happier, healthier, more sustainable future for every child.
- We want a school food system that delivers for all children, so they can enjoy nutritious, delicious and sustainable school food and leave school with an informed and positive relationship with food.
- For nearly 20 years, we’ve worked alongside schools across England to improve school food and food education.
- Through our cooking, growing and school food transformation programmes, we’ve learned what schools need to create lasting change.
- We use our experience and evidence to shape local and national policy, bringing the voices of children, families and teachers to decision-makers.