Community Coordinator

FareShare; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A charitable food redistribution organization is seeking a Community Coordinator to manage the Community Food Membership program. The role involves building relationships with partners, ensuring recruitment, and fostering community engagement. Candidates must have excellent communication skills, a full UK driving license, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. The position offers a salary ranging from £23,620 to £24,329 with hybrid working options and various employee benefits.

Benefits

28 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays

Employer pension contribution

Employee Assistance Program

Interest-free bicycle purchase loan scheme

Season ticket loan

Qualifications

• Previous experience in community work required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills essential.
• Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is needed.

Responsibilities

• Manage and sustain the Community Food Membership programme.
• Build relationships with partners and raise awareness.
• Meet recruitment and retention targets.

Skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

IT skills

Numeracy

Team player

Understanding of GDPR principles

Education

Degree educated or strong career history

Tools

Customer relationship management software

Microsoft Office

Job description

Our Vision: A UK where “No good food goes to waste”.

We are UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to approximately 8,500 frontline charities and community groups. Every week we provide enough food to create almost a million meals for vulnerable people.

There has never been a more exciting time to join an organisation at the heart of public consciousness. For more information visit: www.fareshare.org.uk

FareShare is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities and as a Disability Confident Employer, we provide reasonable adjustments.

We aim to recruit from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our commitment to redistributing surplus food, come and join us.

The Role

As a Community Coordinator for FareShare, your primary responsibility will be to manage and sustain the Community Food Membership (CFM) programme. Your goal will be to build and maximize relationships with our partner. To excel in this role, you must be an exceptional communicator with an approachable nature, capable of securing, developing, and maintaining relationships whilst raising awareness of FareShare Merseyside and North Wales (FSM&NW) across the region.

The Community Coordinator will require a full clean driving licence, have access to a vehicle and be competent and confident traveling independently as they will be traveling across our region, Wirral, Knowsley, Sefton, Halton, Cheshire East, Liverpool and North Wales.

As a Community Coordinator it is vital to ensuring the success and sustainability of the FareShare’s CFM’s, fostering, strong, supportive relationships with our charity partners making a positive impact.

Main Areas of Responsibilities

This role requires close collaboration with the Regional Manager, the Finance team, and Head Office. The Community Coordinator is expected to meet recruitment and retention targets, produce comprehensive reports, and ensure all requirements of funders are met.

• Organised, reliable and with a high attention to detail.
• Experience with customer relationships management systems.
• Strong IT and Microsoft Office skills: Outlook, Excel and Word are essential.
• Strong numeracy.
• Ability to prioritise and multi-task as required.
• A strong team player with a good work ethic.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of GDPR principles.
• Curiosity and empathy in line with FareShare’s mission and strategy.

Essential Criteria

• Previous experience in community work
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle
• Have a commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Eligible to work in the UK

Desirable Criteria

• Level 2/3 Food Safety training is desirable, but training will be provided.
• Have previous experience working with customer relationship management software.
• Be degree educated or have a strong career history doing similar roles in any sector.
• Have some experience of community.

Competencies and behaviours

• Develop and implement strategies to recruit new CFM’s
• Maintain relationships with existing CFMSs to ensure high retention rates
• Conduct outreach activities to promote the benefit of CFM membership
• Able to demonstrate being a Team player
• Eligible to work in the UK

Salary: £23,620 - £24,329

Hybrid / Flexible working, with regular UK travel

28 days’ annual leave + 8 bank holidays

Employers pension contribution

Employee Assistance Program

Interest free bicycle purchase loan scheme

Season ticket loan

Deadline for applications: 19th September 2025 5PM