Stories On Our Plate - SOOP is a social enterprise founded in May 2016.
SOOP introduces the public to home cooked food and stories from all over the world through a monthly supperclub series which supports SOOP’s culinary training support initiatives. Using food as a tool, SOOP provides a platform for cooks with refugee and migrant backgrounds who wish to launch a career in the food and catering industry.
SOOP’s culinary training initiatives places an emphasis on connecting participants with professionals in the industry - providing professional cookery skills, employability advice, and early food venture advice/training.
SOOP does not only tackle the obstacles that cooks with refugee and migrant backgrounds in the UK face carving a career path in the food and catering industry. SOOP also places considerable emphasis on how food can be a common denominator that brings us back to the basics of social interaction and understanding. We all have a food story to share. This year SOOP will be coordinating a series of interactive workshops across the UK that will champion the use of food as a means of cross-cultural dialogue. This project will conclude with SOOP’s first cookbook due to launch in October 2018.
SOOP seeks a
Communications, Design & Marketing Coordinator
Volunteer Position
Key Responsibilities
Supporting and coordinating SOOP’s marketing, communications and design everyday activities and helping us to plan our marketing and communications activities moving forward. This is an exciting role, as SOOP grows, for a creative and enterprising individual to apply their knowledge and build up valuable experience in a social enterprise and food environment.
Main responsibilities:
- Management of social media channels: Regular maintenance and updating of SOOP’s Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. Communicating closely with the SOOP team, content should be engaging (content of interest), relevant (upcoming events), and creative (outreach campaigns).
- Management of the SOOP website and blog: Regular maintenance and updating of the SOOP website and blog. Communicating closely with the SOOP team to add engaging and relevant content to the site and blog.
- Creation and management of the SOOP monthly newsletter: Collating engaging and relevant content for the monthly SOOP newsletter which includes event promotion and highlights from SOOP’s culinary programme.
- Design and produce marketing and communications materials (leaflets, flyers, posters), ensuring a consistently high quality of visual branding and style.
- Curating engaging new content and new ways of narrating SOOP’s work, in coordination with SOOP’s directors.
About you
- Creative with a flair for visual design
- Reliable, consistent, and self-motivated, you can demonstrate high levels of commitment and self-organisation
- Comfortable with using social media in a professional setting, with ideas for how to develop an exciting and effective social media presence to promote SOOP, our programme and our events.
- Website design and management skills; ability to write well and engagingly
- Take the initiative with ideas and areas for improvement in SOOP’s social media channels and website
- 2 years workplace experience preferable. Previous experience in the food sector desirable.
Time & Location
Flexible depending on applicant’s other time commitments but we would anticipate this support role taking up 8-10 hours per week including occasional evenings for SOOP events. The role can be mainly based from home but will require some travel around London (reasonable travel costs will be reimbursed). SOOP operates from offices in Greenwich and Finsbury Park.
What we offer
SOOP offers the opportunity to be part of a small team of experts in an exciting social enterprise that is in entering it’s second year of operations. It is a learning curve for all of us as we foster a professional development environment, and we invite you to be part of shaping SOOP and taking our mission to the public. This is a role where you will have a lot of creative input and will be able to develop your skills and interests in a growing sector.
How to apply
SOOP wants to hear from you! No CVs at this stage. Please craft together a mock-up of a social media post, a Facebook post, Instagram post, or a video clip, which tells us something about you and why you would be a valuable asset to SOOP.
Please email your interest by 10th November to jacksoopstories@gmail.com
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