Jobs at the Trussell Trust

Help us end the need for food banks

Although the Trussell Trust will always support food banks to help people in their community, we know that food is not the answer to poverty. Therefore, it would be wrong for us just to focus on providing the best possible emergency food to people in crisis today. Everyone should be able to afford the essentials in life, including food, and we want to see a future where no one needs to use a food bank.

While supporting emergency food provision will continue to be a core part of our work, we’re first and foremost an anti-poverty charity. Alongside providing vital bespoke support to every food bank in our network, major additional services will be rolled out in food banks over the next year to help Change Communities, and we’ll forge new relationships with agencies and organisations who can help people in crisis address their financial situation well before they reach the point of needing to access a food bank. But just as important will be our planned investment in research, advocacy, engagement and campaigning to Change Minds and Change Policy.

The roles advertised below will be at the heart of this vital work, and we’re incredibly excited that they will help us reach our vision quicker, providing thousands of people with the dignity of buying their own food. If you want to fight the injustice of hunger and poverty, and help people in crisis across the UK, we want to hear from you.

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Current vacancies

Network Programmes & Innovations

Financial Inclusion Manager – West Midlands – Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2025

Home based in the West Midlands with regular travel to food banks and wider, including attendance to staff conferences, 121’s and team away days
The Financial Inclusion Managers will play a central role in helping us achieve our vision for an end for the need for food banks in the UK. This is a varied, proactive and fast-paced role responsible for day-to-day coordination of local and regional projects and partnerships and providing direct support to food banks in your local area. The role will focus on delivering support and services to Trussell Trust food banks and partner organisations to develop and optimise timely access to financial inclusion support to those visiting (or at risk of needing to visit) food banks including through individual meetings, development visits, regional events, training sessions and national conferences.
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Network Operations

Network Lead Wales – 18 month FTC

Home based in Wales with frequent travel to food banks in the area, including attendance to staff conferences, 121’s and team away days.
The Network Lead plays a central role in helping us achieve our vision to end the need for food banks in the UK. This is a varied, proactive and fast-paced role that involves representing the Trussell Trust on policy and public affairs and key stakeholder relationships in Wales, the leadership of a dynamic team of area managers that supports the network of food banks in Wales to deliver emergency food, and the coordination of projects and partnerships to support the food banks in our network to reduce the need for their services locally.
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Public Engagement

Philanthropy Manager – Trusts – 18 Month Fixed Term Contract

Home based within the UK with some travel to London and Salisbury offices, or travel to donor meetings including attendance to staff conferences, 121’s and team away days
The role of the Philanthropy Manager - Trusts is to work with the whole team to meet targets and build the team strategy. Skills in developing long-term transformational funder relationships are also key. Focus will be on growing the trusts programme and cultivating existing donors to support the overall supporter journey. You will play a central role in developing team values and a strong collaborative culture.
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Network Operations

Head of South England & Wales – Job Share

Home based with regular travel around the south of England, Wales and UK as necessary. Attendance to staff conferences, 121’s and team away days
The Head of South England & Wales is responsible for leading our vision to end the need for food banks in South England & Wales. This role will lead our team of Network Leads and Area Managers as they empower every food bank to orientate their work towards ending the need for their services through the provision of bespoke support, enabling them to reduce the numbers of people requiring emergency food. This role will work with key national partners in South England and Wales to support our network to tackle the underlying drivers of poverty. Working hours - 22.5hours per week. This is a job share. The job share working days will either need to be Friday, Monday, Tuesday or Thursday, Friday, Monday.
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Public Engagement

Philanthropy Content Reporting Manager – Trusts

Home based within the UK some travel to Salisbury/London offices, donor meetings and attending staff conferences, 121’s and team away days
Working as a key link between the Philanthropy team and wider organisational teams, the Philanthropy Content Reporting Manager – Trusts will create specific reporting materials for our key funders. You will hold responsibility for a reporting schedule for named partners and work closely with our impact and finance teams to track progress of funded projects and ensure that we deliver partner/funder updates in line with agreements. You will have experience of supporting high-value fundraising teams and be adept at building strong relationships across the organisation to help inform the Trusts team about the activities and outputs of our operational teams. You will understand complex qualitative and quantitative data and use this to write up, design and produce high-quality communications for donors. You will be confident at taking the lead on the reporting requirements of our relationship managers, with efficiency and effectiveness. You will naturally be able to solve problems through creative thinking; you will know how to present data and insight analysis and you will work collaboratively with donor-facing account managers in support of our successful philanthropy programme.
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Policy Research & Impact

Policy Officer (FTC until 28/2/25)

Home based within the UK with some travel for meetings, conferences, 121’s and team away days
Working within the Policy and Public Affairs team, the Policy Officer will support the implementation of the Trussell Trust’s policy influencing strategy to end the need for food banks in the UK. The Policy Officer will be responsible for delivering activity in key policy areas, with a particular focus on policy development and influencing key decision makers. The role will work with the wider team to monitor and inform policy influencing plans, and the Research team to support policy research planning.
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Network Programmes & Innovations

Local Mobilisation Officer

Home based with occasional travel to our London office. Occasional travel to team away-days, staff conferences and 121’s
As Local Mobilisation Officer, you will support the delivery of our ambitious programme to mobilise food banks in the Trussell network to campaign for change. You will support the development and delivery of campaign content and resources for our food bank network, leading on specific elements as required and ensuring people with lived experience are at the heart of their campaigning. You will be a central point of contact for food banks engaged in Trussell policy campaigns, working with them to ensure that content and actions are accessible to our whole network. You will work with colleagues from across Trussell Trust and work closely with our Senior Manager for OLM and our OLM Development Manager.
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Financial Inclusion

Financial Inclusion Assistant

Home based within the UK with some travel to London and Salisbury offices, or travel to food banks including attendance to staff conferences, 121’s and team away days
This is a challenging and busy role supporting the delivery of the Financial Inclusion programme across the UK, including support for Financial Inclusion projects under the Scotland team.  The Financial Inclusion Assistant is responsible for providing high level support to the Head of Financial Inclusion, Senior Managers and other team members as appropriate. The Financial Inclusion Assistant supports the coordination and delivery of a range of projects, communications, events and working groups across the Financial Inclusion department.
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Strategic Communications

Activations and Events Officer (FTC until December 2025)

Home based within the UK, with some travel to the London or Salisbury offices, food banks and staff conferences
This role is responsible for supporting a range of communications activities that build public will for a future without the need for food banks. This role will help deliver a variety of creative communications outputs that builds traction, provokes conversations, wins hearts and minds, and keeps hunger and food bank use at the forefront of the national agenda.
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Public Engagement

Content Manager – 2 year fixed term contract

Home based with in the UK with some travel to Salisbury or London offices and Foodbanks including attendance to staff conferences, 121’s and team away days
Helping to drive an energetic content team in the Marketing and Communications department, the Content Manager is responsible for supporting the Senior Content Manager to create, curate and coordinate content within a defined strategy. With a particular focus on the procurement, migration and rollout of a new digital asset management system, this role ensures the organisation have easy access to effective, engaging content created with an audience-centric approach. The role also line manages the Library Officer, who works to ensure content is compliant and available for use as appropriate, through managing resources including an accessible digital asset management system, and by providing direct assistance across the organisation.
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