Contract: 12-month initial contract (with the intention to become permanent as funding allows)
Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week
Location: London / Hybrid or Remote

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 contract, travel to London 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.

If you are based in or around London, the South East, the Midlands or the North West, we would particularly like to hear from you.

Salary: £28,605 FTE gross per annum
Team members attending the London office 2+ days per week are entitled to an additional £2,000 office allowance.

Travel: Some travel to schools across England is required. We also ask that team members, wherever possible, are available to support three key youth events each year, including overnight stays.

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

Reporting to: Programmes Manager

Please note: Owing to the nature of this role, any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS and PVG (Scotland) check.

Want to work in a vibrant, dynamic and youth-driven organisation that is protecting young people's health by transforming the food system?

Be part of the creative, agile and growing team empowering Bite Back’s exceptional teenage activists. Apply to join us in this exciting role as our Programmes and Projects Executive and make a real difference to our mission 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. 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.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

This is an exciting opportunity to help empower young people aged 8–16 to take action, build confidence and develop new skills through our youth-led programmes in schools.

The Programmes and Projects Executive will play a key role in supporting our community of primary and secondary schools throughout the school year. You will help design and deliver Bite Back in Schools, ensuring a positive and engaging experience for young people, teachers and schools — and making sure the programme achieves meaningful impact.

Alongside day-to-day delivery, you will contribute to cross-organisational projects, including an exciting collaboration with school food charity partners and wider organisational initiatives.

This role would suit someone who enjoys working with young people, is proactive and adaptable, and is ready to learn and grow at a leading youth-led health charity. You will be motivated by helping young people turn their ideas into action and seeing the difference that makes in schools and beyond.

You will join a friendly and ambitious Programmes team, led by the Head of Programmes and including the Senior Programmes & Policy Manager (Scotland), Senior Campaigns and Relationships Manager, Programmes Manager (your line manager), and two other Programmes Executives. Together, the team supports schools and local authorities to deliver high-quality programmes and maximise impact — making canteens and high streets healthier, happier places.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Relationship Management

• Provide ongoing support to primary and secondary schools throughout their time on the programme.
• Act as a key point of contact for coordinators and lead teachers in primary schools.
• Support monitoring and evaluation, including creating surveys, ensuring baseline and end-of-year completion, and analysing submitted data (with the Impact & Evaluation Manager).
• Respond promptly to school queries and flag potential risks to the Programmes Manager.
• Proactively seek feedback from teachers and young people.
• Ensure each school has at least two one-to-one meetings with the team per academic year.
• Build productive relationships with programme partners including Chefs in Schools and School Food Matters.

Community Management

• Celebrate and share examples of best practice and impactful social action projects.
• Deliver training sessions and webinars.
• Support recruitment of future cohorts by promoting the programme, holding set-up calls, and guiding schools through the application and enrolment process.

Programme Delivery

• Schedule and organise school visits, agreeing agendas in advance.
• Deliver assemblies in primary and secondary schools.
• Support pupils in developing their social action campaigns.
• Coordinate assemblies between schools and Bite Back Ambassadors.
• Support School Ambassadors with travel logistics across England and Scotland.
• Ensure schools submit grant invoices on time, coordinating with the finance team.
• Maintain and update programme management systems and data.
• Provide end-to-end support for 10+ primary schools during the academic year.

Project Support

• Support the Programmes Manager to deliver projects on time, within budget and scope.
• Coordinate relationships within The School Food Project partnership.
• Contribute to the national rollout of the primary programme, including developing age-appropriate resources.
• Assist with organisation and delivery of Bite Back events.
• Provide ad hoc support to evolving organisational priorities.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

We recognise that no candidate will have every skill listed. If you’re passionate about our mission and bring strong core experience, we encourage you to apply.

Essential

• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities with attention to detail.
• Experience working with young people.
• Experience delivering training, workshops or assemblies.
• Experience creating engaging resources for young people.
• Experience planning and coordinating events.
• Confidence in public speaking (or willingness to develop this skill).
• Willingness to travel occasionally across England and Scotland.

Desirable

• Experience coordinating programmes with external stakeholders.
• Experience working with schools and teachers.
• Experience using CRM systems.
• Experience drafting digital content.
• Understanding of youth social action programmes.
• Interest in campaigning, social justice, food and child health.
• Experience using design tools such as Canva.

ABOUT BITE BACK IN SCHOOLS

Over the past four years, Bite Back has delivered its youth-led social action programme to more than 200 schools.

Working with secondary schools, we have supported over 30,000 young people aged 11–15 to plan and deliver social action projects to prioritise child health by improving their school food environments.

Following two successful primary pilots and new funding secured, we will soon recruit a cohort of primary schools in England joining from September 2026.

Our primary model combines:

• An assembly delivered by a Bite Back young ambassador
• 1.5 hours of curriculum sessions for KS2 students
• A School Food Champions club delivered through five school council sessions

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply with:

• A CV
• A statement answering the four questions below (maximum 250 words per answer)

1. Organisation and Prioritisation

Imagine you are coordinating several schools to deliver student-led projects at the same time. How would you keep yourself organised and ensure everyone gets the support they need?

2. Partnership Working

Describe your experience working with partner organisations to deliver shared outcomes. If you don’t have direct experience, tell us about a time you managed competing demands across multiple stakeholders.

3. Experience with Young People

Tell us about your experience supporting or designing programmes for young people. If you don’t have direct experience, describe transferable experience.

4. Project Support and Continuous Improvement

Describe a time you contributed to improving a programme, resource, event or process, and how you used feedback to refine delivery.

TIMELINE

• Applications close: 9pm Sunday 15th March 2026
• Initial (online) interviews: Week commencing 16th March
• Second interviews (London SW1W): Week commencing 23rd March

If you have questions, contact recruitment@biteback2030.com (please do not send applications to this address).

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

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