Salary: £50k - 60k  p/a, dependent on experience.

Duration: Full time, permanent. 

Start date: ASAP.

Location: This role will require travel to London once a month for our team days, but otherwise can work remotely and flexibly as per Bite Back 2030’s hybrid working policy. Our youth boards are located in Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford and Birmingham and some travel to these cities will be required.  

About Bite Back 2030 

Be part of the creative and agile team behind Bite Back 2030’s exceptional teenage activists. Join us as a Senior Manager of Youth and Talent, and contribute to a 10-year journey to help make the food system healthier and fairer and achieve our goal of halving childhood obesity by 2030.

Young people today are up against a flood of unhealthy food, pouring out of our highstreets, supermarkets and school canteens. As a result processed foods, snacks, soft drinks and takeaways are playing too big a role in their lives. Junk food is cheap and easy to access at a time when 3.3 million young people under the age of 18 are already at risk of diet related ill health. Overweight and obesity rates among our poorest are double those of our wealthiest young people.

About the role

Bite Back works with exceptional young people up and down the UK who are campaigning for a fairer and healthier food system.

We now have a unique opportunity for someone to join our team to develop and nurture our talent and help prepare our young people to take to the global stage and call for child health to be prioritised.

This is about enabling our young people to reach and deliver their full potential and ensuring that pathways exist with and beyond Bite Back to leverage that talent to positively influence a range of different audiences. You will be passionate about helping young people achieve great success.

We don’t believe there is another role like this out there and we are looking for a rare combination of skills and experience. If you think you fit the bill we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• To spot, nurture and support the recruitment of talent across our youth boards.

• Be a champion of diversity and inclusion.

• Prepare our young people for all external opportunities including press interviews and keynote speeches.

• Contribute to the design and creation of development pathways.

• Identify opportunities for our young campaigners to hone their written and verbal communication skills.

• Identify and map speaking and events opportunities to amplify the youth voice across the year and support our campaigns.

• Manage our growing team of youth facilitators based remotely across the UK.

• Act as a guardian of our reframed narrative around child health working closely with our Senior Communication Manager to develop messaging and briefing documents.

• Develop a celebrity engagement strategy.

• Ensure our young people are being accurately represented and championed across all our channels.

• Review activity and regularly evaluate the experiences of our youth boards.

• Ensure the best standards of care are met for our young people and that every member of the youth boards is given the chance to shine.

Skills and experience

• Performance or public speaking background ideally with broadcast experience in either radio or television.

• Journalism and/or an understanding of interview techniques and media handling.

• Team management and motivation.

• Coaching and development.

• Experience of working with young people.

• Talent management.

• Great organisational and communication skills.

  Application deadline: 20th July

  Interviews: w/c Monday 25th July

  For any questions around the application process please contact us at zainab.akhtar@biteback2030.com