Bite Back Trustee
Bite Back is looking for up to three new Trustees to join our Board during an exciting phase of expansion across the UK.
We are a youth-led movement challenging a food system that is stacked against young people’s health. Since 2019, we’ve worked with over 30,000 young people to drive change, influence policy, and build a powerful movement for a fairer food system.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to support and shape a fast-growing organisation at a pivotal moment working alongside the rest of our Board, CEO and young people to scale our impact and strengthen our governance.
About the role
As a Trustee, you will share collective statutory responsibility duties for the governance and strategic direction of Bite Back:
The role includes:
- Ensuring Bite Back pursues its charitable objectives by approving and monitoring our long-term strategy and organisational goals
- Protect and manage the charity’s assets, ensuring financial stability, proper investment, and exclusive application of funds toward our charitable mission.
- Evaluate performance against agreed strategy, monitor organisational risks, and ensure proper internal controls and policies are in place.
- Provide support, constructive challenge, and oversight to the Chief Executive Officer.
Time commitment is approximately 1 day per month, including quarterly board meetings and occasional events.
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone who has deep expertise in at least one of the following core priority areas:
- Scottish Youth Charity & Governance Expertise: Senior leadership experience from across Scotland’s charity sector, with strong professional networks across Scottish government, civil society, and funders to help guide our growing footprint and programmes as a registered Scottish charity (SC055240).
- Youth Voice / Education Charity Leadership Expertise: Senior leadership experience within the youth sector or education sector working with young people, or experience scaling high impact social ventures that improve lives of young people, or movement building, or philanthropic and donor networks to support income generation, and organisational growth. In addition to strong child safeguarding experience.
- Political Strategy & Campaign Expertise: Expertise in building high-impact strategic campaigns to influence policy, with strong PR/media/political professional networks to support Bite Back’s young campaigners’ efforts to hold Big Food accountable via fresh, innovative, and digital-forward ways.
The full application pack includes detailed information about the role, organisation, responsibilities and person specification.
How to apply
- An up-to-date CV
- A completed diversity monitoring form
- A supporting statement (max. 2 pages) addressing the following points:
- Why are you passionate about joining Bite Back, and what does a genuinely youth-led organisation mean to you in practice?
- How do your specific skills, background, or networks align with at least one of our three core priority areas? What immediate ideas do you have to best harness these assets for the young people of Bite Back?
- What experience do you have in providing senior strategic oversight and fostering collective decision-making within an organisation? This could be previous trustee experience, or senior leadership experience as a CEO/Director, or for first time Trustees any relevant experience advising, guiding, or leading teams.
- Can you confirm you have capacity to meet the required time commitment?
Timeline
3 August 2026: Applications open (Rolling review)
w/c 24 August 2026: Interviews commence (virtual / face-to-face)
3 September 2026: Target first round appointment date
Send applications to: recruitment@biteback2030.com
Find out more
If you have general queries about the role, please contact: recruitment@biteback2030.com