Join the Black Food Fund Committee
Thank you for your interest in joining the Black Food Fund Committee! 

💻 To read more about this role including who can apply, please visit the website here. 

👇🏾 To apply please fill in this short form. This should take no more than 15 mins. 

⏱️ PLEASE NOTE: We recommend filling in this short form asap. We'll be hosting shortlisting calls on a rolling basis and can only offer these calls until 2 October 2023. 

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Process and Important Dates

  • 28 September 12pm: Deadline to submit this short expression of interest.
  • 12 September - 2 October 2023: 20-min screening calls 
  • 3 - 6 October 2023: 10 shortlisted candidates announced
  • 13 October 2023 at 1pm - 3.30pm: Collective Recruitment Session 
  • 18 - 20 October 2023: Final 6 candidates announced
  • From 23 October: Contracting and agreement

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We’ve designed this process in this way to reduce barriers to engagement from those who we want to centre in this work. If this doesn’t work for you however, please drop us an email on bella@shiftdesign.org

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This work is funded by Impact on Urban Health. Housed by Shift. Facilitated by Hello Brave. 

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Full Name *
Email address *
Phone Number *

We'll use this to get in touch if you're eligible and schedule your 20-min screening call
Do you live or work in Lambeth and/or Southwark?  *
As we want to make sure all committee members have a connection and commitment to the boroughs, only people who live in, work in or do work that’s connected with Lambeth and/or Southwark are eligible. 
Do you have a passion for improving the health and well-being of the local community through food? *

This is required to be eligible for the Black Food Fund Committee
Do you have a interest in addressing inequalities and making positive social change
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This is required to be eligible for the Black Food Fund Committee
Please tell us about the experience you'll be bringing to the committee. *

We're looking for committee members with a varied mix of lived (e.g. life and personal experiences) learned (e.g. school, courses, study) and / or professional (e.g. work, placements, employment) experience of at least one of the following:
  • the local food system, ideally in Lambeth and Southwark
  • working with Black families living in Lambeth or Southwark
  • Black food cultures, communities and systems
Note: only applicants demonstrating lived, learned or professional experience of at least one of the bullet points above will be invited to an initial 20 min call. 

Please aim for 200 words max to help us with reviewing your application 
What else are you excited to bring to the committee? *

What other lived, learned and / or professional experience are you excited to bring to the Black Food Fund committee. We're hoping to find a group of people who represent a range of skills, expertise & experiences. We'll use this to see which skills and expertise we might be missing. 

Examples include but are not limited to innovation and entrepreneurship, working on similar programmes, designing sustainable food systems and supporting the local community. 

Please aim for 200 words max to help us with reviewing your application 
We are hoping to hold the committee selection session in-person on 13th October, 1 - 3.30 pm. Would you be able to attend?

Location TBC. Within Lambeth and Southwark. This will not impact your eligibility. 
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Are there any of these dates you know you can't make?

This will help us with scheduling for the committee. This will not impact your eligibility to join. Please select all that you cannot attend. 
Equity Check

In this work we want to centre people who are least served by the current food system across Lambeth and Southwark, and people who have been traditionally excluded from grant making processes like this.  

To make sure we're keeping you centred and to make sure we're taking an intersectional lens, we'd love to know who we are and are not reaching through this recruitment process. 

So if you're happy to, please share a little about you so we can understand who we are and are not reaching in this work. This question is entirely optional. 

Optional: Which of the following, if any, do you identify with or as?

Select all that apply. This question is optional.

Do you have any accessibility needs we should be aware of?

We're asking this to make sure everyone is able to take part in a way that works for them and that they're comfortable with. This will not effect your eligibility. 
Do you know any of the recruitment panel members?
We'll try our best to make sure we pair you with someone you don't know for fairness in the shortlisting calls. 

Select all that apply.
Your data and information

Thanks for your interest in joining the Black Food Fund committee.

Who will have access to your data?

This project is being administered by Shift, and facilitated by Hello Brave. 

The recruitment panel are Marie Mitchell. Chef, Writer and Entrepreneur. Melek Erdal. Creative Director, Business developer, Executive chef. Sabrina Seid. Local Resident, Parent. Will Nicholson. Health and Wellbeing Consultant, Connector and Social Entrepreneur.

Your data may be processed by all of the listed parties but only for the purposes of this project. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting Bella at Shift on bella.hunt@shiftdesign.org.

Your data will be stored securely on Shift's online server.

How your data will be used?

This data will be used by the recruitment panel to decide whether you are the right fit to join the committee. It will also be used to contact you about your application.

Your data will be erased once we have appointed all committee members, unless you have given us expressed consent to contact you for further opportunities below.

For further information about your rights please see Shift's privacy policy here.
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I would like to be informed of other opportunities to be involved in this programme (e.g. surveys or workshops) even if I'm not selected for this role.
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Selecting no will not impact your application in any way.
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