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Farm Discovery Programme Manager

Remote
£39,000 per year
Full-time
Permanent
Job description

Hours: 35 hours per week. We are open to considering a job share arrangement for the right candidates.  

Salary: £39,000.  

Location: Homeworking.  

Reports to: Head of Programmes.   

Oversight of a delivery team: Yes (currently 30 plus self-employed coordinators).   

Travel: Travel across the country to visit our activities, including overnight stays, is part of this role. All related expenses will be covered by The Country Trust.  

Annual leave: 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (FTE).  

Benefits: Workplace pension. Homeworking, some flexibility on working hours.  

 

Are you passionate about connecting disadvantaged children with food, farming, and nature? 

We're looking for a dedicated and experienced Programme Manager—an inspiring, child-centred educator with a deep commitment to tackling poverty of opportunity. 

Through effective team management and leadership, and collaboration with colleagues, this role enables a large team of expert practitioners to deliver the charity’s mission of providing high quality, educational, relevant, safe and impactful Farm Discovery visits and related activities for disadvantaged children across England and North Wales.  

Could you:  

  • Lead our dispersed Farm Discovery team of expert practitioners, ensuring all our processes - recruitment, training, administration, reporting, information management, communication, budgeting, evaluation and of course our delivery - enable us to achieve amazing things with primary school communities in disadvantaged areas around the country?  

  • Work with others to grow and shape our programmes to achieve our vision?  

  • As an inspiring advocate of our work, build our contribution to the national conversation around food, farming and nature education? 

 If so, would love to hear from you! 

 
Due to our safer recruitment process we are not able to accept CVs for this position. 

Applications close: noon 30th April  

First round interviews (held virtually) will be on Wednesday 7th May. Second round interviews will be held face-to-face in London on Wednesday 14th May.   

Application resources
Posted by
The Country Trust View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 21 - 50
Posted on: 04 April 2025
Closing date: 30 April 2025 at 12:00
Tags: Training / Learning, Project Management, Operations, Education, Engagement / Outreach, Environment / Animal, Food / Nutrition, Information Management, Mentoring / Coaching, Monitoring and Evaluation, Procurement, Programme Management, Recruitment, Risk Management, Safeguarding, Sustainability, Wildlife, Youth / Children, Grants, Governance / Management

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