Food Discovery Programme Manager

Join a dynamic, growing charity that inspires children in disadvantaged communities to grow,
cook, and enjoy healthy food. We’re seeking an experienced Programme Manager and child-led
educator to lead our national Food Discovery team, ensuring high-quality delivery, strategic
growth, and strong advocacy for food education.

You’ll manage a dispersed team, oversee recruitment, training, budgeting, and evaluation, and
build partnerships with schools, funders, and sector networks. The role demands excellent
leadership, communication, and organisational skills, with the ability to travel nationally.

Requirements:

• Proven leadership and programme management experience, ideally in education, community
  engagement, or food education.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, health & safety, and working with primary
  school-aged children.
• Skilled communicator, relationship-builder, and advocate.
• Commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

About The Country Trust

The Country Trust believes every child should discover first-hand the connections between the
food they eat, their own health and the health of the planet. We are the UK’s leading
educational charity on a mission to connect children with the land that sustains us all.

When we don’t understand where food comes from, how it’s grown, or have the chance to spend
time outdoors, there’s a significant knock-on effect for our health and the environment.
Through nearly 50 years of programme delivery, we know children facing disadvantage often have
the most to gain from this connection but are least able to access it.

Through food, farming and countryside experiences, our mission is to empower children to be
confident, curious, and create change in their lives and the world around them — so that they
and society thrive.