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Community Food Manager - Greener Kirkcaldy
Created: 13/04/2025
News/Events Category: Job VacanciesPost: Community Food ManagerContract: PermanentHours: Full time (35 hours per week) or 0.8 full-time equivalent (28 hours per week)*Salary: £38,313 per annum pro rata + 6% contribution to pension schemeLocation: Greener Kirkcaldy’s base at 8 East Fergus Place, Kirkcaldy or hybrid of office and home* Including some evening and Saturday work. Greener Kirkcaldy has a flexible working policy. We would consider requests to work fewer hours, or to job-share.
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.Greener Kirkcaldy 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.
Based in the heart of Kirkcaldy - with a community building, training kitchen, bike shop, and garden - they carry out activities across Kirkcaldy and work with partners to deliver projects across Fife. Their community training kitchen, The Lang Spoon Community Kitchen, is a place for people to come together to cook, eat, and learn. It offers training, volunteer and work experience opportunities, community cooking classes, and a wide range of events, courses and workshops on all aspects of food and drink.
They run a regular community meal, a community fridge, and range of activities for different groups, interests, and demographics. This includes projects teaching people skills to cook on a budget, workshops promoting climate-friendly food, employability programmes, kids clubs and income-generating social enterprise classes. They also have a small kitchen garden, growing fresh ingredients. As well as activities on-site, they deliver events and workshops with groups in other community locations across Fife.
The Role
As Community Food Team Manager, you will lead the development, planning, and management of Greener Kirkcaldy's vibrant and busy community kitchen, ensuring delivery of a varied programme of community events and activities, in accordance with their values, funding commitments and social enterprise aspirations. You will also lead the development of new and enterprising ideas to grow their 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 the 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.
Working at Greener Kirkcaldy
Greener Kirkcaldy want Kirkcaldy to be a good place to live and work. They believe in a future where everyone has a say in what happens locally, people are working together to protect their environment and those in hardship are supported to live well. That includes staff and volunteers.
Working at Greener Kirkcaldy involves being part of a positive, collaborative, and social team. Their culture is important to them and they promote equality, diversity, and openness. They have a strong focus on staff wellbeing and development and encourage staff initiative and ideas.
Benefits of working for Greener Kirkcaldy
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and sick pay
- Wellbeing, training, and development opportunities
- Social events
- Diversity and inclusion
Greener Kirkcaldy want to be an inclusive and diverse charity where everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be themselves. They take part in Fife Centre for Equalities' Equality Pathfinders programme. They also take part in the Race Equality Environmental Programme facilitated by CEMVO Scotland. Their Equalities Action Plan sets out the steps they are taking to improve diversity and inclusion.
To achieve their vision of Kirkcaldy as a greener and fairer place to live, they need a diverse team. They encourage applications from people of any background. They know that the third sector particularly lacks staff and volunteers with Minority Ethnic backgrounds and disabled people. If you identify as Minority Ethnic or have a disability, they welcome your application.
If you need additional support to apply or take part in the recruitment process, please e-mail their Office Manager Dianne Girvan on [email protected]
How to apply
Full information and applications details can be found on Greener Kirkcaldy's website - https://www.greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk/jobs/job-opportunity-community-food-team-manager/
Application forms should be submitted to jobs@greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk
You must use the application form - they will not accept CVs.
The closing date for applications is 9.00am on Monday 05 May 2025.
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