Llandrindod Foodbank Community Organiser Job Vacancy
Community Organiser
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team at Llandrindod Foodbank as a Community Organiser. This role will be fast-paced and varied, working in the heart of the communities we serve.
You need to be confident but also understand that your job is about putting others front and centre.
This role is focussed on developing 1–2–1 relationships with people who need the Foodbank and organising the community by bringing people together. Over time, you will build the capability, confidence and capacity of people coming to our foodbank.
Your role will support our Foodbank community to identify local causes of hardship, decide what needs to change, plan how to tackle issues, and take action to change things locally.
You will work across our Foodbank centres and will play a huge part in delivering our vision of a future without the need for Food Banks.
For more information please email project.manager@llandrindod.foodank.org.uk or phone Lynne Frost 01597 829138
Closing date for applications is 10th February 2025
Local Community Organiser job description
Role outline and purpose
The Food bank Local Organiser is responsible for developing the food bank’s capacity to organise and campaign for change. You will do this by building the skills and confidence of food bank clients, volunteers and staff and community members to campaign locally. Local Organisers build relationships in food banks to identify some of the issues driving poverty in the community and to bring people together to take action on those issues.
You will develop and lead a volunteer campaign team to create a campaign strategy and lead on the delivery of the strategy to win change, while developing leaders in your food bank. This role is funded by Trussell as part of their Organising Programme, and you will be part of a network of Local Organisers around the UK doing this work. You will be the link between your food bank(s) and the Organising and Local Mobilisation team at Trussell, as we build a movement to end the need for food banks.
Responsibilities of Local Organiser:
To build trusted relationships with food bank clients, holding 121 conversations and group activities to identify potential campaign issues and build their skills and capacity to campaign alongside you
To develop and manage a team of volunteers, building and distributing leadership across the team, within the food bank or food banks, to work on local influencing and campaigning to reduce poverty and the need for food banks.
To explore and understand the experiences that are bringing people to need the food bank’s support, working with food bank staff and volunteers, through listening activities and/or research.
To map out and build relationships with the food bank’s partners, referral agencies and local anti-poverty organisations, and to engage them in identifying the local drivers of poverty.
To identify a local issue driving poverty, build a campaign team and develop a strategy to build power and win change, working with food bank staff and volunteers.
To deliver the local campaigning strategy working with food bank staff, volunteers and clients
To work with the Organising and Local Mobilisation team in Trussell and engage with the training and support on offer, including work with other Local Organisers in the Trussell network
To engage in Trussell’s central priority campaign activities, working with the food bank and local community to get involved in taking action on national campaigns
Desirable technical skills and knowledge:
Experience of campaigning or organising to achieve a change.
Experience working alongside people with lived experience of poverty
Experience facilitating groups and organising engaging group activities
Experience managing and working with volunteers.
Experience of community outreach in the local area.
Good project management skills, able to balance a range of priorities.
Behaviours and competencies:
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships and gain trust of people with lived experience of poverty and using food banks
Confident in communicating and, able to seek and balance a range of views and stakeholders, influencing where required.
Demonstrate a commitment to the values of the Trussell Trust /local food bank.
Key Stakeholders
Your local food banks, including the project manager, volunteers, and people they support
Local elected representatives
Local organisations working to support people in poverty
The Trussell Area Team, who support your food banks in their day-to-day work.
The Trussell Organising and Local Mobilisation Manager, who will be your key point of contact in the OLM department and support you throughout
The wider Trussell Organising and Local Mobilisation (OLM) Team who will deliver training and relational support
Trussell Policy, Research and Impact department
Our Values
Trussell is a charity that works to end the need for food banks. It is founded on and shaped by Christian principles.
Our values of dignity, justice, compassion and community, are central to all that we do and therefore supports our aim to be an organisation where the diversity of all employees is valued. We welcome people of all faiths and none and those that are committed to these values.
We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity we are actively encouraging applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.