Contract: Permanent.

Hours: Full time.

Location: London Hybrid / Remote. London Hybrid colleagues are expected to be in our London, Victoria office 2+ days a week. Remote colleagues are required to travel to our London HQ at least six times a year; 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 gross FTE per annum. Team members who come into the London office 2+ days per week are entitled to an additional office allowance of £2,000 FTE per annum.

Travel: This role will require occasional travel to schools across England and Scotland. We also ask that team members, wherever possible, be available to support two key youth events each year, including overnight stays.

Benefits: 30 days annual leave, flexible working environment, enhanced sick pay, 5% employer / 3% employee pension contribution, bike to work scheme.

Reporting to: Programmes 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 creative, agile and growing team behind Bite Back 2030’s exceptional young activists. Join us as our Programme Executive and contribute to our journey to help make the food system healthier and fairer. See below for more details about the role and how to apply.

At Bite Back, we're committed to ensuring our staff is representative of the diverse world around us and 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.

Role Description

The Programmes Executive plays a key role in supporting our community of schools during their time on the Bite Back in Schools programme across the school year. They will support the design and delivery of the programme to ensure the best possible user experience for young people, their teachers and their schools, and to ensure the programme makes the greatest possible impact within the project timeline.

The Programmes Executive will report to the Programmes Manager and will work closely with colleagues across Bite Back, in particular with our comms, digital, youth and policy teams.

Responsibilities

Relationship management

• Provide ongoing support to schools throughout their time on the programme, building strong working relationships with participating schools.
• Support communication with all schools, providing a point of contact for the coordinator and lead teacher in each school.
• Support monitoring and evaluation through creation of surveys, ensuring completion of baseline and end of year surveys, and analysis of data submitted (working with our Evaluation Manager).
• Lead the planning, creation, and distribution of our termly newsletter, highlighting school achievements, amplifying youth voices, and inspiring action across our network.
• Provide timely responses to school queries, manage a shared inbox and alert the Programmes Manager of any potential risks.
• Proactively seek feedback from teachers and young people on our programmes.
• Ensure opportunities for schools to engage in at least two one-on-one meetings with our team during the school year.

Community management

• Celebrate and share examples of best practice and impactful social action projects amongst our community of schools.
• Deliver training and webinars for schools.
• Manage and grow engagement with school groups through our social media platforms, fostering a sense of community and promoting active participation.
• Grow our movement — supporting the recruitment of future cohorts by promoting the Bite Back in Schools programme, distributing recruitment comms, holding set up calls with interested schools, and guiding schools through the application and enrolment process, working closely with the Programmes Manager on the design of these processes.

Programme delivery

• Schedule and organise visits to schools, agreeing agendas with the schools in advance to include elements, including meeting pupils and teachers, leading feedback sessions and focus groups and supporting the development of their social action campaigns.
• Schedule and deliver assemblies with schools partaking in the programme.
• Ensure schools submit invoices on time as part of their grant funding, providing support where needed and coordinating with the finance team to ensure prompt processing.
• Book and arrange assemblies, coordinating between schools and our Bite Back Ambassadors.
• Support the School Ambassadors with travel logistics as they deliver assemblies in schools across England and Scotland.
• Maintain and regularly update programme management software and associated data to ensure accurate and up to date information for all participating schools.
• Ensure successful end-to-end support for the 100+ schools participating in the programme throughout the next school year.

Project support

• Provide support to Programme Manager in the delivery of projects, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and scope.
• Assist in the delivery of the Local Authority programme, including travelling as needed to facilitate workshops and provide support to the team’s operational requirements.
• Provide support for the primary school pilot programme and contribute to the creation and development of engaging resources tailored for primary school use.
• Provide ad hoc input to evolving organisational requirements as directed by senior team members.

Skills and Experience

We recognise that the list below is broad and we realise that the “ideal candidate” doesn’t really exist. What we will be looking for as we evaluate applications is demonstrable experience in at least some of these, and evidence of capacity to build skills in other areas.

Please don’t be put off applying for one of our jobs because you can’t demonstrate every skill. If you're passionate and excited about working for us and possess the main skills and experience we are looking for, go ahead and apply. You could be just what we are looking for!

The ideal candidate would have the following experience and qualities:

Essential

• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders at the individual level and in representation of the organisation.
• Strong organisational and project management skills, with excellent time management, ability to manage competing priorities and attention to detail.
• Excellent writing and communication skills, with the ability to adapt messages and language to resonate with different audiences.
• Ability to travel across England and Scotland when required (occasional).
• A proven record of building relationships across sectors, with young people and adults.
• Experience of creating resources which are engaging for young people and simple to deliver for teachers.
• Experience of youth facilitation and/or delivering training.
• Experience in presenting and delivering content, preferably within an educational setting, such as leading assemblies.

Desirable

• Confident public speaker or willingness to learn
• Experience of working with CRM systems, particularly Salesforce.
• Strong understanding of the education sector and experience of working with schools and teachers.
• Experience in drafting compelling copy and uploading content to digital platforms.
• Understanding of youth social action and extracurricular programmes.
• Interest in campaigning, social justice, food, and child health.

Approach to Work

You will be able to show the following qualities:

• A bold and open mind — you will be prepared to think differently about issues.
• A level head — you will be comfortable working both reactively and proactively.
• A sense of humour — we believe work should be fun and that we all perform at our very best when we enjoy what we do.
• Creativity — you will come at issues from new and surprising angles
• A commitment to Bite Back’s values — Fresh, Resilient, Respectful, Energetic, Real.

About Bite Back in Schools

Bite Back has delivered our youth led social action programme — Bite Back in Schools— to over 200 schools over the last three years.

Working with secondary schools, we have supported over 30,000 11-14 year olds to plan and deliver social action projects to prioritise child health by improving their school food. This could be by making nutritious and sustainable food the norm by increasing the flow of healthy options in their canteens, or by redesigning the school food experience to put healthy options in the spotlight.

With funding awarded from the National Lottery, we are now recruiting a brilliant cohort of schools in England and Scotland who will join the programme in September 2025.

Our programme model combines an assembly delivered by a Bite Back young ambassador, four hours of curriculum time sessions for a whole year group, and our ever-popular and impactful School Food Champions (SFC) extra-curricular club. You can read more about our offer for schools here.

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 10/11-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 (maximum 250 words for each answer):

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.

Problem Solving

Describe a challenge you’ve faced in a work, volunteer, or school setting. What did you do to address it, and what was the outcome?

Experience with Young People

Tell us about your experience supporting, managing or designing programmes for young people. This could be creating engaging and easy to use resources, facilitating youth sessions or delivering training, or presenting or delivering content ideally in an educational setting. If you don’t have direct experience, tell us what experiences you have that you think would be transferable to working with young people.

Relationship Management

Tell us about a project where you were responsible for managing relationships with partners, programme participants, or other stakeholders. How did you keep relationships strong, and what challenges did you face?

If you have any questions about the role or the application process, do 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 9:00am on Monday 14th July 2025.
• Initial interviews are expected to take place virtually Monday 21st July 2025.
• Second interviews will happen at 8, 10 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0DH on Monday 28th July.

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 are 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.