Farming The Future are recruiting!
[Photo credit: Farming The Future]
Farming the Future is a collaboration that brings together funders, social movement builders and the UK’s agroecological food and farming sector to realise an equitable and regenerative food system that benefits both people and the planet.
We pool funds, knowledge, and networks, while questioning conventional philanthropy. We are experimenting with ways to support the movement, including and beyond funding. All our work is informed by our core values of equity and justice.
The collaborative was established in 2019. After its initial incubation within the A Team Foundation, Farming the Future’s fiscal sponsorship transferred to Prism the Gift Fund in 2021 to better recognise its financial independence. The collective has now expanded to include the A Team Foundation, the Roddick Foundation, Thirty Percy, Savitri Trust, Be The Earth, Bertha Earth, the Kreitman Foundation and a number of private individuals.
The A Team Foundation, as a co-founder of Farming the Future, was awarded funding from The National Lottery Community Fund’s Growing Great Ideas programmes in 2021.
Farming the Future – Director
This is an exciting time to join Farming The Future. Having recently undertaken a review of our collective purpose and values, we now need someone to lead a major phase of work to understand the needs of the UK’s agroecological movement and to determine how Farming the Future might play a unique and catalytic role to support its success.
We expect the initial phase of work will lead to a number of further projects, including evolving/re-designing Farming the Future’s model for resource distribution and decision-making, working with our Ambassadors to support movement and field-building, and developing the capacity and skills of the wider agroecological movement. You will hold our core values of equity and justice at the centre of all your work.
Farming The Future thanks The National Lottery Community Fund for fully funding this role until July 2025.
Applications close 9am Wednesday 21st September 2022.
Please click here for further details and job description.
Farming the Future – Grants Manager
This is an exciting time to join Farming The Future. Having recently undertaken a review of our collective purpose and values, we now need someone to help us strengthen our relationships with our existing grantees and those in the wider agroecological movement.
You will be responsible for assessing applications for funding, managing our relationships with these organisations and you will play a key role in recommending what funding and support we should commit to them. You will hold our core values of equity and justice at the centre of all your work.
Farming The Future thanks The National Lottery Community Fund for fully funding this role until July 2025.
Applications close 9am Wednesday 21st September 2022.
Please click here for further details and job description.
Please send your CV and a covering letter (no more than two sides of A4) that explains how your experience, knowledge and skills fulfil the requirements of the role to Meghann Sherwood, Grants and Partnerships Manager at the A Team Foundation meghann@ateamfoundation.org
Applications for both roles close 9am Wednesday 21st September 2022.
Interviews
Interviews will take place online in the week commencing Monday 10th October 2022. Please let us know if you have any access requirements or require any reasonable adjustments.
If you are invited to interview, we will contact you the week commencing Monday 3rd October 2022 to arrange a mutually convenient time. We will provide you with feedback within two weeks of the interview.
If your application is not successful and you are not invited to interview, we will inform you no later than the week commencing Monday 17th October 2022. As we are a small team, we will not be able to provide individual feedback to applicants who we do not invite for interview.
If you would like to have an informal chat about the role before applying or if you have any questions, please email Meghann Sherwood, Grants and Partnerships Manager at the A Team Foundation meghann@ateamfoundation.org and we will come back to you as soon as possible.
