Food Collection Intern

FareShare is an equal opportunities employer


Reporting to:Food Projects Coordinator

Location:Deptford, London

Hours: Full time (35 hours)9.00am to 5.00pm

Remuneration:£9.15 per hour

Fixed Term: 3 months (May 2014 – July 2015)

FareShare is an equal opportunities employer


About FareShare

FareShare is a unique charity fighting hunger and its underlying causes by redistributing surplus food to hundreds of local charities across the UK. By ensuring good food is not wasted, we turn an environmental problem into a solution, helping to feed thousands of vulnerable people every day.

Here’s a short filmto show you how FareShare helps transform lives.

About the role

Twice a year we work with one of our key food partners to hold a nationwide food collection. For this, we recruit an army of volunteers to donate their time in store, encouraging members of the public to donate store cupboard staples such as pasta, rice and tins. FareShare uses this food to supplement the fresh, surplus we receive from the food industry to ensure the charities we support receive a reliable service of varied food.

We are looking for someoneto assist with the organisation and smooth running ofour Food Collection as well as post-event analysis and review. You will support the Food Projects Coordinator in recruiting a nationwide team of enthusiastic volunteers by advertising for, engaging with and managing volunteers.

You will also help to coordinate this national event;liaising with our charity and food partners, responding to queries, working with our Regional Centres and Communications team and helping with database management and administration.

We are looking for an innovative and enthusiastic candidate who isn’t afraid of hard work. We want someone who is confident to share new ideas and can bring fresh perspective to the event. The successful candidate must enjoy a challenge and will show real dedication to both their role and FareShare’s mission. In return we will work to ensure that your time at FareShare makes a positive difference to your career.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Volunteer Recruitment & Management

  • Help in the recruitment of thousands of volunteers
  • Come up with innovative ways of sourcing and engaging new volunteers
  • Communicate and motivate prospective volunteers, encouraging them to donate three or more hours of their time to helping us collect food
  • Help to create volunteer briefing packs, carry out surveys, gather feedback and thank our volunteers for their help
  • Respond to volunteers’queries

Publicity & Marketing

  • Liaise with the Marketing and Communications Team to develop marketing and support materials
  • Respond to queries from the public regarding FareShare and the Tesco Food Collection

Administration

  • Manage database of volunteer data and store information
  • Compile data for volunteer and food industry partners
  • Analyse volunteer and store data to draw out trends and patterns

General

  • Ad hoc tasks to support the Food Team

Support for interns

You will be working in a small team and will be given significant responsibility and ample opportunity to work on your own initiative. You will also be given the support you need to ensure you are able to do this effectively while also learning about FareShare, the food industry and the Third Sector.

This is a fixed-term position, however, FareShare is growing and future opportunities may arise, which as an intern you would be welcome to apply for. Our interns have a great track record of securing work with us and other organisations within the charity sector.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Experience and Skills – Essential

  1. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to tailor communications to suit different audiences
  2. Ability to be pleasantly persuasive
  3. Ability to manage sensitive and potentially difficult communications well
  4. Competence in IT and general office skills, including the ability to manage a database, excel spread sheets and outlook
  5. Creativity and innovation
  6. Ability to be organised and work systematically to fixed deadlines
  7. Ability to use own initiative working independentlyandconfidence in having responsibility as an individual
  8. An enthusiastic and pragmatic approach to work

Experience and Skills – Desirable

  1. Understanding of environmental issues, food waste and food poverty in the UK
  2. Experience of volunteer recruitment/ management
  3. Experience in a customer-facing role
  4. Experience working as part of a small team

Application Process

If you would like to apply, please complete an application form together with a covering letter, detailing your perception of the work that FareShare does and how your skills and experience would meet the requirement of this role (please use actual examples). Covering letters should be addressed to Polly Hofmann, Food Projects Coordinator. We also request that you complete Equal Opportunities monitoring form.

All forms can be downloaded from the FareShare website.

Please return completed forms to quoting reference FCI/03.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 9amMondayApril 13th2015

Interviews will be held on Friday 17th April 2015

FareShare is an equal opportunities employer