Hertfordshire Project Officer

Background to School Food Matters
At School Food Matters we believe that school food can unlock a happier, healthier, more sustainable
future for every child. We want a school food system that delivers for all children, so they can enjoy
nutritious, delicious and sustainable school food and leave school with an informed and positive
relationship with food. To achieve this, we campaign for a better school food system, bringing the
voices of children, parents, and teachers to government policy, and deliver fully funded food
education programmes in schools across the country.

Background to Nourish
Our Nourish programme supports schools to create a food environment that puts children and young
people’s nutrition first. The evidence-based, multi-component programme helps schools to develop
action plans and policies to cover the food served across the whole school day. Nourish uses a
collaborative whole school approach to food involving everyone across the school community to
create lasting positive change.

Job purpose

• To deliver Nourish in 15 primary schools in Hertfordshire over 2 years in a delivery team of
  two Project Officers and a Project Assistant.

Key tasks include

• Support with recruitment of schools to take part in Nourish
• Complete in person food audits in schools looking across the whole school day
• Support schools to create and deliver a food improvement plan (action plan)
• Develop and deliver workshops in schools to staff, parents and students based on their action
  plan (e.g. assemblies, cooking sessions, school food standards training, packed lunch advice,
  food ed/sensory tasting sessions)
• Support schools to write a school food policy
• Build relationships and work closely with teachers, teaching assistants, cooks, kitchen teams
  and senior leaders in schools to improve the food they offer their students
• Collect data and maintain accurate records relating to the project
• Work closely with University of Hertfordshire and our Evaluation team to complete all
  monitoring and evaluation
• Work in collaboration with Hertfordshire project delivery team
• Gather content for our comms team (website and social media platforms)
• Keep Scaling Manager fully updated on progress
• Keep up to date with safeguarding requirements and reporting procedures
• Maintaining the ethos of the charity and positively promoting our work at all times
• You will also be expected to undertake any other tasks relevant to the affairs of SFM that may
  arise from time to time. Therefore, being flexible and approaching the job with an open and
  positive mindset is essential.