• Location - Hybrid, but regular attendance (1+ days a week) at Central London HQ is expected 

• Contract - Full Time (35 hours p/w) maternity cover to January 2025 

• Start date - Ideally November 2023, but flexible for the right candidate 

• Salary - £56,250 per annum, plus benefits 

• Reporting to – Director of Food, Fashion and Communities 

• Deadline - 11 October 2023  

• Interviews – Interviews at our London office w/c 30 October, including a task. 

WHO WE ARE

We’re Hubbub, a creative charity that’s been inspiring positive environmental action since 2014. Every campaign is sparked by our passion to problem-solve and make greener choices easier and more possible for everyone – from food to fashion and from reuse to greener and more connected communities. Everyday solutions that bring people, community groups and business together to do good and create change that scales and influences far beyond the people involved. Change that shows how much is possible when we all get on board. 

OUR VALUES 

• Give a damn about the environment: it’s authentically at the heart of everything we do because we’re committed to taking action on climate change and the environment. We care about the difference we make and are honest about our impact. 

• Curious: have an interest in people, places, trends, politics and the world we live in. Asks questions, seeks knowledge and has self direction to discover the answers. We have an eye for detail and intuition to see opportunities. Always explores new ways to engage wider communities meaningfully. 

• Entrepreneurial: leads the way. Embraces flexibility to achieve our charitable purpose. Nimble and brave enough to take risks to experiment without fear. Proud of independent spirit. Takes initiative and responsibility. 

• Creative: Re-imagines everything and enables people to see things differently. Trusts intuition and brings magic to everyday. Continually challenges the way things are. 

• Playful: positive and playful to connect people, catch imaginations and make people smile, because the world is serious enough. 

• For Everyone: Creating ways to include everyone in climate action, breaking down barriers and making it worthwhile too. It’s built into who we are and everything we do. 

HOW WE WORK 

We do things the Hubbub way:  

• Scope: We care about the environment and believe the cause is bigger than the organisation. We’re always thinking about the most pressing challenges and problems we can tackle. We collaborate with organisations, big and small, who share our ambition to find new ways to disrupt the status quo and inspire action that’s good for the environment, and for everyone. 

• Discover: We’re curious. We listen, observe and ask questions to gain insight and knowledge to understand the people and places we want to inspire. We use our intuition and experience to identify opportunities to instigate action on environmental issues. We build ideas based on evidence. 

• Create: We’re a creative bunch. Our campaigns put ideas into action to raise awareness, change habits, and show that good things happen when people come together. We start with things people care about. We use behaviour change techniques, positive language and highlight the benefits. We use good design, seasonal hooks and a splash of playfulness. 

• Experiment: We’re entrepreneurial. We have a healthy restlessness. As we deliver campaigns we constantly experiment, measure and adapt what we do, to test new ways to connect with people and find out what has the biggest impact. 

• Scale: We start small and think big. Our campaigns ripple, scale and influence far beyond the people involved in them. We share what we discover, the good and the bad. Sometimes we give it another go to find a better way. When it works we open source our ideas so they can be replicated and scaled. We build transformation opportunities to shape systems and policy. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

We are looking for an innovative and purpose-driven leader to join Hubbub as Head of Food. This is a fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. 

We are looking for someone with extensive corporate experience who can drive disruptive approaches to cutting food waste, nudge more sustainable diets using tested behaviour change techniques, and foster impactful commercial, trust/foundations and statutory partnerships.  

We need someone who can hold their own in discussions about the food waste hierarchy and keep abreast of rapid development in plant-based food. But most importantly the right candidate will be motivated to distil complex subjects into engaging and positive mainstream campaigns that help people to lessen their environmental impact and save money.   

Our Head of Food will oversee delivery of a broad portfolio of projects to the highest standards, on time and on budget. These include the Community Fridge Network and a range of food waste projects in partnership with high street brands.  

Your role will include:  

Strategic Leadership 

• Providing strategic direction for high-profile, disruptive food campaigns. You’ll be responsible for setting and achieving key outcomes as well as ensuring delivery of fantastic, impactful work on time and on budget.  

• Building quality partnerships with major brands and corporates to reach a broad cross section of British society.  

• You’ll be at ease demonstrating to busy executives how Hubbub’s approach complements their sustainability targets and goals.  

• Setting the tone for comms across food campaigns, protecting our unique voice and ensuring accuracy and clarity across all outputs. 

Team Leadership  

• Providing guidance and leadership to the Food team, you will manage and coach people to deliver brilliant projects and to develop and grow in the organisation. 

• Assuming responsibility for financial and resource management across a busy team.  

Business Development   

• Strengthen relationships with existing funders and overseeing exceptional account management in order to secure future opportunities.  

• Develop new project ideas informed by the latest thinking and societal and economic trends, and work with our development team to turn them into new income.  

WHO YOU ARE

• We are looking for someone who can deliver complex projects in partnership with major funders and corporations.  

• You will have a passion for sustainability and at least seven years’ corporate sector food experience which may have been gained – for example - in retail, manufacturing, FMCG, food PR, marketing or media or food innovation.  

• You’ll have strong experience in leading large teams with diverse expertise, and be willing to support however needed to make sure we have well-functioning team. 

• Regardless of your experience, alignment with Hubbub's values is essential.  

Hubbub’s success and distinctiveness rests on the quality of our people. At every stage of their career, a Hubbuber is: 

• Intellectually and politically curious and engaged. 

• Proud of the work they do. 

• Upbeat, motivated by challenges, and tenacious in solving them. 

• Creative, innovative and playful. 

• A team player, sharing success and solving issues and challenges collaboratively. 

• Organised, dedicated and conscientious, with fantastic attention to detail. 

• Flexible, willing and able to respond to constant change and challenge. 

• Committed to communicating in a way that is compelling, clear, accurate and accessible. 

If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified, and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you! 

WHAT YOU’LL GET 

• Holiday - 25 days per year, plus bank holidays. Our office also closes for around 2 weeks at Christmas which is additional to annual leave, and if you hang around for 5 years, we offer an additional 4-week paid sabbatical. 

• Pension - 5% employer pension contribution, with an ethical pension provider. 

• Flexible working - Hubbub operates a flexible working policy whereby staff can work from home when they chose. We trust our team to do a good job and be committed, and how they do that is up to them! Our core hours are 10am-4pm, but we are flexible to suit people’s needs. Flexible working also includes any reasonable adjustments required to enable each person at Hubbub to work to the best of their abilities.  

• Optional remote working - We also know great talent isn’t just based in London so we support remote working, with the understanding you will need to come to the London office for some important dates, and to attend away days. 

• Training and Development – We're committed to the development of our team. We have an agile goal setting process with clear lines for progression. We offer ongoing professional development through our training partner, You Can Now. 

• Away Days & Socials – We all get together twice a year for Away Days, which often includes a fun overnight stay at an eco-resort in the English countryside. Once a month we have socials arranged by the team ranging from repair workshops and film nights to scavenger hunts and wild swimming. 

• Wellbeing – We have a wellbeing calendar that includes a range of different wellbeing sessions covering physical, mental and financial wellbeing. 

Equality Statement 

Hubbub is committed to providing equality of opportunity both in employment and access to our programmes, events and activities.  This means that: 

• For all job opportunities and progression, job applicants and employees will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.   

• The above equally applies to access to development and training opportunities. 

• All programmes will be designed to be actively inclusive and accessible to all people.