The Landworkers’ Alliance is a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers.

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Please contact Lauren.Simpson@landworkersalliance.org.uk

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We are currently not recruiting for any roles but please read our newsletters for any announcements. We currently do not offer any volunteer or internship placements directly with the LWA, but keep an eye out in the newsletter or on the forum for any members looking for volunteers or workers.

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Please look at the Agroecology Research Collaboration to see if it fits your area of research/work.

Membership Support / Advice

Currently the LWA does not have capacity or resources to help individual members or potential members on their specific projects, farms or programmes. We get a lot of requests for individual support and would love to have the time to respond to each request in full. We are fundraising for a new role for somebody to focus on membership support and services as we have identified it is a gap in our offering so please watch this space. Having said that, if your query is critical and urgent please email info@landworkersalliance.org.uk including the word URGENT in the subject header and it will get picked up and we can try our best to help.

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Please take the time to explore our staff page here to see who the most relevant contact for your enquiry is.

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Please bear in mind we all work part time and have limited capacity to respond to enquiries outside our core areas of work.

You can also find information under the About Us header about branch and regional organising, and identity groups within the LWA membership.

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For any other enquiries that are URGENT please email info@landworkersalliance.org.uk with the word ‘urgent’ in the subject header and we will do our best to help.

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Jobs

Local Food Plan Project Coordinator

 

Hours: 3 days per week (24 hours)
Duration: April 2024 – end of March 2025
Location: Based in the UK, working remotely, but with capacity to travel for occasional in person meetings, and events/conferences.
Working days: This is a 3 day week role (24 hours/week).

Remuneration: £31,512 pro rata salary, 3% statutory pension contribution and 28 day holiday allowance (pro rata).

Closing date for applications: Tuesday the 2nd April
Interview date: Week commencing the 8th April
Start date: April 2024, or as soon as practicable thereafter

 

The Local Food Plan Coordinator will play a key role in helping to deliver the Local Food Plan, which is currently in development for the local and short supply chain sector.

This two-year partnership project (ending in March 2025) is developing a growth action plan for the sector and creating a framework for future collaboration. Local and shorter food supply chains play a significant role in helping us move towards greater food sovereignty, addressing food system issues, and opening up economic opportunities for agro-ecological food producers. The plan and collaboration framework will make the sector investment ready, to unlock significant future growth.

Partners in this project are Pasture for Life, the Sustainable Food Trust and the Food Farming and Countryside Commission. We also work very closely with Sustain who are developing a similar plan for the local retail sector. LWA is the lead organisation in project and partnership management.

 

Cydlynydd Ymgysylltu Aelodaeth Cymru

 

Oriau: 2 ddiwrnod (16 awr) yr wythnos gyda goramser â thâl ar gael ar gyfer mynychu digwyddiadau yn ystod misoedd yr haf.

Hyd: Blwyddyn (gyda’r nod o ymestyn yn amodol ar gyllid)

Lleoliad: Mae hon yn rôl gweithio o gartref, a dylai’r ymgeisydd fod wedi’i leoli yng Nghymru, gyda’r gallu i deithio’n rheolaidd ar gyfer gwaith, digwyddiadau a chyfarfodydd.

Tâl: £12604.80 Cyflog blynyddol gros TWE (£31,512 pro rata). Gyda chynnydd blynyddol o 1.5%, yn amodol ar adolygiad. Cyfraniadau pensiwn statudol a lwfans gwyliau.

 

Dyddiad dechrau: Cyn gynted ag y bo modd yn dilyn y recriwtio

Dyddiad cau ar gyfer ceisiadau 9 Ebrill 2024

Cyfnod Cyfweliad: Wythnos yn cychwyn 22 Ebrill 2024

 

Rydym yn chwilio am gyfathrebwr a hwylusydd hyderus a medrus, sy’n deall y materion a’r ddeinameg gymhleth sy’n ymwneud â bwyd, ffermio a choedwigaeth yng Nghymru er mwyn datblygu a darparu strategaethau ar gyfer recriwtio aelodau, allgymorth ac ymgysylltu. Rhaid iddynt feddu ar ddealltwriaeth o bwysigrwydd y Gymraeg a byddant yn gyfrifol am ddiweddaru Polisi Iaith Gymraeg yr GyT. Bydd gan y rôl ryddid a hyblygrwydd i gyflawni cynllun gwaith a strategaeth greadigol i adeiladu, cynyddu a chryfhau aelodaeth yr GyT yng Nghymru.

Mae’r rôl hon yn canolbwyntio ar gefnogi aelodau i hunandrefnu o fewn cangen Cymru o GyT er mwyn cryfhau gallu GyT i weithredu fel sefydliad ar lawr gwlad, sy’n cael ei yrru gan aelodau. Mae meithrin sgiliau a systemau cymorth ar gyfer trefnu dan arweiniad aelodau, yn bennaf drwy dîm trefnu Cymru sy’n cynnwys gweithredwyr sy’n aelodau sy’n gweithio mewn rôl wirfoddol yn rhan graidd o’r rôl. Mae’r rôl yn cynnwys cynnig cefnogaeth barhaus i’r tîm trefnu, integreiddio aelodau-drefnyddion newydd, a’u cefnogi i drefnu digwyddiadau a theithiau fferm, a lledaenu gwybodaeth trwy gylchlythyrau a chyfryngau cymdeithasol. Mae hefyd yn cynnwys datblygu strategaeth ynghylch ymgysylltu democrataidd trwy strwythurau fel Cynulliad y Trefnwyr (Organisers’ Assembly) a’r Cyfarfod Cyffredinol Blynyddol.

Mae’r rôl hefyd yn cynnwys ymgysylltu allanol ychwanegol gydag aelodau (e.e. diweddaru’r wefan, ysgrifennu cynnwys ar gyfer cylchlythyrau, cefnogaeth allgymorth mewn digwyddiadau), adeiladu partneriaeth â sefydliadau eraill, cydweithio â thîm Ymgyrchoedd GyT, a mynychu digwyddiadau allweddol yn y mudiad sofraniaeth bwyd a chyfiawnder tir. Bydd y Cydgysylltydd yn cryfhau’r mudiad amaethecolegol yng Nghymru drwy arwain ar gyfraniadau’r GyT i Gynhadledd Gwir Fwyd a Ffermio Cymru a’r Sioe Frenhinol ac unrhyw ddigwyddiadau eraill sy’n strategol bwysig i ddatblygu ffermio cynaliadwy, coedwigaeth a gwaith tir yng Nghymru.

Bydd y rôl hon hefyd yn cynnwys gweithio’n agos gyda Chydlynydd Polisi Cymru i ymgysylltu ag aelodau mewn gwaith polisi ac ymgyrchu yn ogystal â gweithio gyda gweddill tîm staff GyT i gysylltu gwaith ledled y DU gyda Chymru.

 

Wales Membership Engagement Coordinator

 

Hours: 2 days per week (16 hours)

Duration: 1 year

Location: This is a working from home role, and the candidate should be based in Wales and have capacity for regular travel for work, events and meetings.

Remuneration: £12604.80 gross annual salary PAYE (£31,512 pro rata). With 1.5% annual increase, subject to review. Statutory pension contribution and holiday allowance.

 

Start date: ASAP following recruitment

Closing date for applications: 9th April 2024.

Interview period: w/c 22nd April 2024

 

   We are seeking a confident and skilled communicator and facilitator, who understands the complex issues and dynamics surrounding food, farming and forestry in Wales in order to develop and deliver strategies for membership recruitment, outreach and engagement. They must have an understanding of the importance of the Welsh language and will be responsible for keeping the LWA Welsh Language Policy up to date. The role will have freedom and flexibility to deliver a work plan and creative strategy to build, increase and strengthen the LWA’s membership in Wales.

This role focuses on supporting members to self organise within the Wales branch of LWA in order to strengthen the ability of LWA to act as a grassroots, member driven organisation. A core part of the role involves building skills and support systems for member-led organising, primarily through the Wales organising team which is made up of member activists working in a voluntary capacity. The role involves ongoing support of the organising team, onboarding new member organisers, and supporting them to organise events and farm tours, and disseminate information through newsletters and social media. It also involves developing strategy around democratic engagement through structures like the Organisers’ Assembly and AGM.

The role also includes more outwards facing membership engagement (e.g. updating the website, writing content for newsletters, supporting outreach at events), partnership building with other organisations, collaboration with LWA’s Campaigns team, and attending key events in the food sovereignty and land justice movement. The Coordinator will strengthen the agroecological movement in Wales by taking the lead on the LWA’s contributions to the Wales Real Food and Farming Conference and the Royal Welsh and any other events that are strategically important to the development of sustainable farming, forestry and landwork in Wales.

This role will also involve working closely with the Wales Policy Coordinator to engage members in policy and campaigning work as well as working with the rest of the LWA staff team to link UK wide work to Wales.

 

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