As Local Mobilisation Officer, you will support the delivery of our ambitious programme to mobilise food banks in the Trussell network to campaign for change. You will support the development and delivery of campaign content and resources for our food bank network, leading on specific elements as required and ensuring people with lived experience are at the heart of their campaigning. You will be a central point of contact for food banks engaged in Trussell policy campaigns, working with them to ensure that content and actions are accessible to our whole network. You will work with colleagues from across Trussell Trust and work closely with our Senior Manager for OLM and our OLM Development Manager.

Role responsibilities

·       Development of high-level campaigns content:

Supporting content creation for communications to food banks, briefings, training sessions, and other digital and physical resources. Lead on specific elements/projects as required.  

·       Liaising with Food banks on campaign action development and delivery:

Ensuring that food banks have: a direct point of contact as actions are developed and during mobilisation periods for queries, and receive support and campaign materials on time. Support food banks and Trussell colleagues that support them to give feedback on the development of campaigning training, resources, and support.

·       Development of assigned mobilisation strategic projects:

Support various strategic projects within the OLM team to mobilise food banks to campaign more effectively.

·       Support the OLM team to develop robust participation structures for Organising and Mobilising:

Ensuring that people with lived experience are at the heart of food bank network’s campaigning, ensuring content is accessible for a diverse range of audiences.

·       Identify patterns and trends from the food bank network’s local and regional campaigning activity, and feedback on these.

Your understanding of the food bank network will help the voices, needs and culture of the network to inform our mobilisation work.   

Person Specification

Technical skills and minimum knowledge:

·       Experience of designing and developing resources, activities, and content for campaigners and social change makers.

·       Experience of developing simple and accessible content for public facing

·        audiences.

·       Experience of working with people with lived experience and providing structures to get their meaningful input.

·       Experience of working across teams/ departments, to ensure alignment and understanding on any given project.

·       Demonstrable experience of engaging with internal and external stakeholders

Behaviours and competencies

·       Confident in communicating to a range of audiences from a diverse range of backgrounds including people with lived experiences of poverty and able to seek and balance a range of views and stakeholders, influencing where required.

·       Sound project management skills, able to balance a range of priorities.

·       Role models inclusive behaviour, values and leadership

·       Demonstrate a commitment to the values of the Trussell Trust.

·       Deliver work within a cross-Directorate matrix structure where operational and development benefits arise from resource sharing.

·       Demonstrates empathy for people from underrepresented, historically excluded and marginalised backgrounds.

Key Stakeholders

·       Food banks, including project managers, volunteers and people they support, as well as local OLM funded roles.

·       Learning & Development Partner and the wider Learning & Development team

·       Network Resources Manager

·       Volunteering Development Manager

·        Network Leads, Area Managers, Network Church Engagement Managers, Network Volunteer Engagement Managers, and Pathfinder Leads who support food banks in their operational and strategic work.

·        Network Policy and Research Officers

·        Strategic Communications Managers

·        Volunteer Engagement Manager

·       Participation team

Our Values

The Trussell Trust 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 LGBTQIA+, from racially minoritised communities such as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic 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 ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.