Contract: Permanent.

Hours: Full time.

Location: Remote or London / Hybrid.

Office-based colleagues are expected to be in the office two days per week. Remote colleagues are required to travel to our London HQ at least once a month; if you are on a remote working contract, your travel to the London office for team days will be paid. This is a UK-based role; you must have the right to work in the UK to be considered.

Salary: £27,000 FTE gross per annum.

Team members on London / Hybrid contracts that come into the London office 2+ days per week are entitled to an additional office allowance of £2,000 per annum, pro-rated.

Travel: This role will require occasional travel across the UK to support our local-level projects and campaigns. We also ask all team members, wherever possible, to be available to support two key youth events each year, including overnight stays.

Benefits: 30 days annual leave, flexible working environment, 5% employer pension contribution, bike to work scheme.

Reporting to: Senior Campaigns Manager

Please note: Owing to the nature of this role, any offer of employment with Bite Back will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

Do you want to work with a vibrant, dynamic and youth driven organisation that is committed to creating healthy futures for British children by improving the food system?

Be part of the team behind Bite Back’s exceptional teenage activists. Join us as our Campaign Executive and contribute to our journey to help make the food system healthier and fairer.

At Bite Back, we are committed to ensuring our staff is representative of the diverse world around us. Therefore we encourage candidates with a range of lived and professional experiences to apply. We particularly welcome applications from people of colour, LGBTQ+ people and disabled people. We will use positive action under the Equality Act 2010 to appoint from these underrepresented groups if two candidates are equally qualified.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join Bite Back and support the delivery of our local, national and international campaigns. As Campaigns Executive, you will play a key role in building Bite Back’s Shape Our Streets programme, working with Local Authorities and young people locally to advocate for healthier food environments.

You will support the coordination of Bite Back’s national campaigns to put youth voice front and centre, calling for a #CommercialBreak from junk food advertising, high streets that aren’t flooded with unhealthy products, and school food that supports young people to thrive.

You will support the coordination of Bite Back’s youth model internationally to raise awareness of the global issue and build campaigns within different country contexts. You’ll be creating change and protecting every young person’s right to a healthy childhood.

The Campaigns Executive will report to the Senior Campaigns Manager and will work closely with colleagues across Bite Back, in particular with our Programmes and Digital Communications teams.

Responsibilities

The Campaigns Executive's responsibilities include:

• Providing day-to-day coordination and administrative support across national, local and international campaign workstreams.
• Helping to plan and deliver campaign events, such as in-person and online workshops: booking venues/managing online platforms, organising travel and materials, briefing staff and providing on-the-day support, occasionally outside standard working hours.
• Undertaking desk research, evidence-gathering and basic data analysis to inform our campaign activities, turning findings into briefings and/or presentations for internal teams.
• Contributing to brainstorms and ideation sessions with teams across Bite Back.
• Working with Campaigns and Communication colleagues to draft copy for supporter emails, social posts, web pages and briefing notes.
• Managing stakeholder lists (e.g. local council contacts, global partners) and occasionally joining meetings with external stakeholders.
• Providing ongoing support to UNICEF country offices throughout collaboration projects, building strong working relationships with country, regional, and HQ colleagues.
• Coordinating mentor sessions for young people in several partnering countries on topics including research, policy and stakeholder engagement, community mobilisation, and media.
• Taking on additional tasks delegated by the Senior Campaigns Manager, contributing ideas and pitching in wherever needed during busy campaign moments.

Skills and Experience

The Campaigns Executive is a new role at Bite Back. We know that you might not have all the skills and experience listed below, so please don’t be put off applying if you can’t demonstrate everything.

Remember that skills and experiences can come from all sorts of different places that might include volunteering, paid work, educational settings, or elsewhere. If you're passionate and excited about working for us and are willing to learn and build new skills, go ahead and apply. You could be just what we are looking for!

The ideal candidate will have:

• Genuine interest in campaigning, social change and the championing of youth voices.
• Experience in supporting the coordination of projects across multiple teams and external partners to meet deliverables within a set timeframe.
• Strong organisational and multitasking abilities, with excellent time management, ability to manage competing priorities with high attention to detail.
• Excellent writing and communication skills, with the ability to adapt messages and language to resonate with different audiences.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders at the individual level and in representation of the organisation, locally, nationally, and internationally.
• Ability to travel across England and Scotland when required (occasional).

Approach to Work

The ideal candidate will be:

• Creative with an open mind: coming at issues from new and unusual angles and being prepared to work hard on finding fresh approaches.
• Unafraid to speak your mind and challenge where you think we can be doing things better.
• Happy working in a fast-paced and often reactive campaigning environment.
• A team player who contributes to Bite Back’s collaborative culture.
• Up for a laugh — we believe work should be fun and that we all perform at our very best when we enjoy what we do.
• Committed to Bite Back’s values: Fresh, Resilient, Respectful, Energetic, Real.

About Bite Back

We’re surrounded by junk food. From the moment we're born, every second of every day, children are being targeted. Giant companies manipulate them with colourful, cuddly, clever marketing, deceive them with packaging claims and pump products at them that are full of junk. It's become the cultural wallpaper. Now, it risks destroying the health of a generation.

Over a third of 10 to 11-year-olds leave primary school with an increased risk of developing food-related conditions like type 2 diabetes and heart disease in their future.

The good news is, it's totally preventable. And we're biting back.

Bite Back is a youth activist movement challenging a food system that's been set up to fool us all. We do this by:

1. Calling out the manipulation of the junk food giants.
2. Demanding higher standards from food marketing and from everyday food itself.
3. Mobilising and equipping young people in the fight for better food.

We do all this so we can bite back against a global epidemic of food-related ill health.

How to apply

Please apply with a CV and answers to the following four questions:

1. What attracted you to Bite Back, and what excites you about this role and our mission? (250 words max)
2. Tell us about a time you have used project coordination skills to complete tasks within a set timeframe. (250 words max)
3. At Bite Back, we aspire to uphold our values in everything we do. Tell us about the Bite Back value that resonates most with you and where you have demonstrated this previously. (250 words max)
4. How would you go about structuring your day, balancing core campaigning tasks and requests from different teams, such as the Digital Communications and Policy & Research teams? (250 words max)

If you have any questions about the role or the application process, contact us on recruitment@biteback2030.com, and we’ll be happy to help. We will only accept applications submitted via the CharityJob website. This is because CharityJob automatically anonymises all applications to reduce bias in the shortlisting process.

Applications will be handled in line with our Recruitment Privacy Policy.

Timelines

• Applications close at 9am on Monday 4 August.
• First round interviews will take place virtually on Monday 11 August.
• Second round interviews will happen at Bite Back’s office, FiveFields, 8-10 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1W 0DH, on Friday 15 August.
• We intend to make a final decision by Friday 22 August.

If you are in receipt of means-tested benefits and cost is a barrier to attending a London-based interview, please let us know, and we can help with booking your travel.

We're testing an approach of sharing one interview question in advance as part of our commitment to being more inclusive. Please let us know if you require any additional support or reasonable adjustments for the application or interview. We really want our process to feel accessible.