Applications are now open for a six month internship at Food Fairness Illawarra! Contribute five hours per week to develop your communications and marketing skills, while helping to educate our community and encourage them to take action towards a fairer food system.
JOB TYPE:
6-month internship position. 5 hours per week.
LOCATION:
Healthy Cities Illawarra (6-10 Princes Highway, Fairy Meadow)
SUPERVISOR:
Food Fairness Illawarra Coordinator (Kelly Andrews)
ABOUT FOOD FAIRNESS ILLAWARRA:
Food Fairness Illawarra (FFI) is a community coalition that since 2005 has worked to address factors affecting food security in the Illawarra. Guided by representatives from six key organisations (Healthy Cities Illawarra, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong City Council, Shellharbour City Council, Kiama Municipal Council and University of Wollongong), FFI has a wide network of over 1,000 individuals, community groups, charities and non-government organisations, who all recognise the need for collaboration between community, industry, and governments to unlock fairer food solutions.
Guided by “6 dimensions of food security”, FFI performs the following activities:
• Connect and Collaborate – Bring together and support local collaboration between food system stakeholders including local producers, providers, growers, consumers, food aid providers, community groups, businesses, advocates, educators, councils and non-government organisations.
• Advocate – Highlight local issues and lobby for policy and planning development that contributes to a fair food system.
• Empower – Strengthen community action and develop personal skills by providing tools, highlighting opportunities, and enabling knowledge sharing to drive the fair food conversation across all levels of society.
• Govern – Maintain a coordinated, well-structured coalition to enable collective action.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Educate our community and encourage them to take actions towards a fairer food system, by supporting the development of our newsletter, executing our social media strategy, maintaining our website, and contributing to our advocacy projects.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS:
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Organised and able to meet deadlines
• Ability to work autonomously and part of the FFI team
• Provide clear and timely communication around availability
• (Desirable) Studying or completed a Bachelor’s degree Marketing / Communications, Health Promotion, Nutrition, Dietetics, or Human Geography.
APPLY NOW:
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