Advocacy Officer Aquaculture (temporary position)
About the job
Job Title: Advocacy Officer
Reporting to: Executive Director Feedback EU
Gross Salary: Euro 3000-3500 for 32 hours/week
Contract: 4 days per week (32 hours), with a high degree of flexibility over working hours. 21.5 days annual leave, plus public holidays (based on the Netherlands).
Duration: 7 months contract
Start Date: Flexible – ideally mid February 2025.
Location: 2 days a week working from co-working space in The Hague. Other 2 days remote.
Diversity: Feedback is an organization actively seeking to move through an anti-racist and anti-oppressive journey in every aspect of its work. We acknowledge that the environmental sector is less open to people from under-represented backgrounds and we are strongly committed to doing what we can to correct this. We especially want to hear from you if you feel that opportunities like this are less available to you.
About Us
Feedback EU is a Netherlands-based climate and food campaign group. We work closely together with our sister organisation Feedback Global, founded in 2013 in the UK. We work to regenerate nature by transforming our food system. Food production is the single greatest impact humans have on the environment. From mountains of food waste, to habitat destruction to grow animal feed for factory farms or feed farmed fish, the food system needs to change. Founded in April 2022, we combine investigative research, advocacy and campaigns, community outreach and on-the-ground pilot projects for a better food system.
About the role
This is a temporary position to replace a person who will take paternity leave. The position is an exciting opportunity to coordinate our campaign and advocacy efforts in relation to aquaculture in the Netherlands and the EU. Furthermore, you will coordinate the programme we implement with European and West African partners focused on the fishmeal and fish oil industry in West Africa, and targeting policy and corporate change at EU and West African levels. The ability to work in Dutch and English for our Dutch and European campaigns is a key requirement of this role. French language skills would be an asset in working with the West African partners.
Since 2018, Feedback has established an innovative body of evidence and policy on the damaging role of marine ingredients and other feed ingredients such as soy, in aquaculture, and formulated the case for aquaculture in a sustainable food system that delivers the greatest nutritional value for the least environmental impact, and does not contribute to destructive fishing, deplete global fish stocks, or worsen global food injustice.
You will based in the Netherlands and will work closely with Feedback’s staff in Brussels and London, and our European and West African partner organisations and networks.
To be successful in this role you will need to be passionate about addressing head-on the damage that our food system causes to our climate, ecology and biodiversity. You will have experience with advocacy and campaigning, with understanding of the food and aquaculture sector in the EU and a good grasp of the interactions between food systems and environmental issues. You have experience in project management. With our team of 5, working on different topics in relation to the food system, we value flexibility and willingness to take on challenges and learn new skills. We look forward to welcoming you to our team.
Job Description
The main responsibilities of this role are:
1. Advocacy and Campaigning
- Lead our Dutch campaign and advocacy on aquaculture in coordination with our campaign officer and UK colleagues.
- Supporting our EU advocacy on aquaculture in coordination with our EU Advocacy Officer based in Brussels.
- Participating in European and global coalitions, networks, and conversations and leveraging these relationships to amplify our research and campaigning.
Building relationships with other civil society groups, policymakers and industry, by representing Feedback and the campaign in external networks.
2. Project Management:
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- Coordination of the Our Fish project in liaison with the wider Feedback team and partners to ensure the project is run effectively and efficiently.
- Reviewing progress of activities, reviewing budgets and producing grant reports and communication with the funder.
3. Taking on other tasks in wider Feedback programmes, committing to extending learning and understanding to new issues and topics.
Person specification
To deliver in this role you will need to have:
- Experience in Dutch and/or European advocacy and policy and civil society networks
- Project management experience, preferably involving multiple partners. Experience in working with partners from the Global South would be an asset.
- Excellent organisational and administrative skills.
- Proven interest in, and knowledge of environmental issues and/or food systems acquired through qualifications, professional or volunteer experience. Knowledge of aquaculture would be an advantage.
- Excellent communication skills – persuasive writing skills and fluent spoken and written English and Dutch. Knowledge of French is an advantage.
- Strong IT skills/literacy (Word, Excel, email management, social media)
- A self-starter with a can-do attitude, flexibility and adaptability, willing to pitch in on delivery and help colleagues across the team, recognising that Feedback EU is a small, nimble organisation with fast-changing priorities.
- A commitment to Feedback’s values – we are bold, collaborative, impact-driven, celebratory and inspiring – and to our goal of ecological regeneration through changing the food system.
- The right to work in the EU.
How to apply
Please submit, in Word or PDF format, a CV and cover letter (no more than 2 pages each) to europe@feedbackglobal.org, explaining how you meet the person specification and why you would like to work at Feedback in this role.
Closing date for applications is January 19th at midnight.
Shortlisted candidates will be notified on January 20th .
Interviews will be held online via Zoom on January 21.