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The new LOFS Ambassador role is for someone who loves taking part in LEAF Open Farm Sunday and talking about it! Primarily it’s about helping to build our community of LOFS farmers – sharing ideas, answering questions, helping to promote LOFS and being one of 7 ambassadors for LOFS across Britain

LEAF Open Farm Sun­day (LOFS) is farming’s annu­al open day. Man­aged by LEAF (Link­ing Envi­ron­ment And Farm­ing), with sup­port from lead­ing food and farm­ing organ­i­sa­tions, hun­dreds of farm­ers across Britain open their gates to the pub­lic to dis­cov­er the world of farm­ing, food pro­duc­tion and all that it encompasses. 

2020 events saw LOFS take to the screen with LEAF Online Farm Sun­day! It has proved huge­ly suc­cess­ful and is some­thing we plan to devel­op with the sup­port from a new team of LOFS Ambassadors.

All LOFS activ­i­ty aims to build trust and under­stand­ing in food and farm­ing, put farm­ing back in the heart of com­mu­ni­ties and be great PR for British agriculture.

The role:

The new LOFS Ambas­sador role is for some­one who loves tak­ing part in LEAF Open Farm Sun­day and talk­ing about it!

Pri­mar­i­ly it’s about help­ing to build our com­mu­ni­ty of LOFS farm­ers – shar­ing ideas, answer­ing ques­tions, help­ing to pro­mote LOFS and being one of 7 ambas­sadors for LOFS across Britain.

The main activ­i­ties are:

  • organ­is­ing, pro­mot­ing and run­ning occa­sion­al online meet­ings (Zoom chats) to share ideas with LOFS farm­ers in your area
  • pro­mot­ing LOFS across your indus­try net­works and on social media
  • cham­pi­oning LOFS in meet­ings and at events
  • being a spokesper­son for LOFS in the press and media
  • tele­phone sup­port to new and reg­is­tered LOFS host farmers
  • feed­back on LOFS activ­i­ty in your area and par­tic­i­pate in quar­ter­ly meet­ings with the full LOFS Ambas­sador team.

For this part time role (approx. 5 days a year), we are look­ing for an enthu­si­as­tic, approach­able and proud ambas­sador of LEAF Open Farm Sun­day; a good com­mu­ni­ca­tor, con­fi­dent using tech­nol­o­gy, social media and pro­mot­ing events. A social pres­ence is desired but not essential. 

What to expect from LEAF

  • Each LOFS Ambas­sador will receive guid­ance and sup­port from the LOFS team at LEAF HQ.
  • LEAF will pay pro-rata £200/​day, for approx­i­mate­ly 5 days’ work
  • In addi­tion, rea­son­able expens­es incurred though the role will be reim­bursed, such as milage (45p/​mile) and oth­er dis­burse­ments. Any travel/​expenses over the val­ue of £50 must be agreed pri­or to expen­di­ture with the LEAF Open Farm Sun­day Man­ag­er (Annabel Shackleton).
  • You will be offered resources nec­es­sary to effec­tive­ly look after your region.

Spe­cif­ic require­ments will vary depend­ing on the indi­vid­ual and the area. The main aim is to con­tin­ue to make LOFS an ongo­ing suc­cess, build­ing on achieve­ments year on year. 

To apply please send in infor­ma­tion about your skills and rel­e­vant expe­ri­ence, to: 

[email protected]

Appli­ca­tion dead­line: 8th Jan­u­ary 2021. We will con­tact poten­tial can­di­dates the fol­low­ing week and the suc­cess­ful appli­cants will be noti­fied by 28th Jan­u­ary and the role will com­mence in Feb­ru­ary 2021.

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