Food Network for Ethical trade (FNET) Project & 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: This role is vital to delivering FNET’s working groups and supporting members to implement their human rights strategies. We are open to considering  1 full time or 2 part time Project and Membership Managers (20 hours each) who  work closely to deliver a seamless service for our members with support from FNET lead, FNET Communications and membership manager and FNET secretariat.

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  strategy implementation of our working groups (Responsible recruitment, Empowering Work, Climate and Human Rights, Raw material and services, Due Diligence) working closely with Member working group Leads and our board sponsors
• For each meeting: You will design  the agenda, carry out any research needed to prepare agenda and content where applicable. Find and brief expert speakers for agreed topics to ensure member needs are communicated clearly. Host / chair meetings, take minutes, co-create tools and follow up actions to ensure timely delivery
• Support communications and membership manager with managing and producing FNET member communications content including weekly news, webinars and blogs. 
• Support  the new member outreach strategy and promote the FNET benefits to companies who could be potential members. This will include running 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. It would be desirable if you have some experience of working in the food and agricultural sectors and with governmental/ non-governmental organisations or trade unions
• As you will be advising  members it would be an advantage to have some experience in the practical implementation of Human rights in a business environment, Expertise in  Responsible Recruitment or Human Rights Due Diligence would be a distinct advantage.
• A confident project manager who can thrive in a fast environment, delivering to tight deadlines
• Experience of a membership organisation
• Comfortable managing meetings and facilitating/steering groups to practical actions
• Excellent verbal and written communication and organisational skills.
•  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