Food Network for Ethical Trade (FNET) Communications & Membership Manager

FNET is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all individuals regardless of personal characteristics or background.

Mission: The Food Network for Ethical Trade (FNET)is a collaborative network of supply chain partners established in 2017 which aims to use the collective leverage of 65+ food manufacturers, hospitality companies such as Burger King, and  the 10 largest UK food retailers  to bring about positive change in working conditions in global food, beverage and horticulture supply chains by providing guidance, resources, training and opportunities for collaboration.

Position: Our Communications and membership  manager is a part timerole 15- 20 hours per week. Join our team at FNET and play a pivotal role in developing and delivering our membership communications. As a key player in project management and delivery, and stakeholder relationships, you'll work closely with our team of project managers, FNET lead, FNET secretariat and the board  to grow our membership and ensure our communications support members to adopt responsible business practices

Salary and Benefits will be competitive including a pension with 5% contribution from FNET, 25 days holiday + your birthday + UK Bank Holidays. Our culture is collaborative,  creative and fun  with lots of opportunities to build your network and knowledge  on a host of issues to do with food and human rights

If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

• Manage the day-to-day activity and communication strategy implementation across all our channels
• Own the creation and management of  reports, analysing the performance of communication channels to provide actionable insights
• Create engaging, on-brand content that resonates with the target audience to raise awareness, drive engagement, and boost membership attraction and retention.
• Adapt existing brand assets to maximise use.
• Produce short-form video content, including shooting, editing, and optimizing videography to create ‘how to’ content
• Manage the public and member areas of the website - i.e., document management, filling, helping members navigate the website and access resources, writing content to keep relevant to member's needs.
• Lead the new member outreach strategy. 
• Promote FNET benefits to companies who could be potential members. 
• Run new member inductions and welcome events, linking members with common interests, conducting interviews and surveys
• Support FNET to work collaboratively with strategic partners Represent FNET in multi-stakeholder forums and where appropriate support with organising, facilitating and chairing collaborative working groups

What are we looking for: 

• An understanding of and passion for sustainability, ethical trade/ human rights
• Project management in a fast environment, delivering to tight deadlines
• Experience in  communication, marketing, social media management and content creation
• Experience of a membership organisation Meeting management and facilitation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and organisational skills.
• Proficiency in tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, or similar design platforms.  
• Strong copywriting and storytelling skills to craft engaging captions, posts, and video scripts.
• Creative mindset with a commercial focus on growing engagement, building community, and driving revenue through content.  
• Comfortable driving forward recruitment and engagement conversations in a meaningful and professional manner
• Strong organisational skills, ability to lead multiple activity areas simultaneously and to deadline
• Proactive and able to work independently and unsupervised to deliver tasks, and achieve project objectives
• A good team player and confident to manage multiple stakeholders in a polite and efficient manner to achieve consensus and collaborative action.
• Strong, demonstrable, Microsoft expertise including Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Power Bi
• Ability to be flexible and adapt skills to an evolving organisation

Please see Job description for further details