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If you have any questions about vacancies at Fordhall, please do give us a call on 01630 638696 and we will be happy to chat to you.
Administration Officer, 25 hour, 5 hours/day Monday to Friday
We are seeking a highly organised individual with exceptional administration skills to lead on the administration within our busy office; the hub of all Fordhall Community Land Initiatives work.
You will work closely with our team of committed staff and volunteers to offer administrative support to our frontline activities including events/courses, youth project, care farm, educational visits, glamping, Straw Lodge bookings, social prescribing, general marketing, looking after our shareholders, newsletters and our café. As such you will be an excellent multi-tasker and able to react to the work required each day. You will be responsible for maintaining existing systems and processes, improving them where required, as well as introducing new ones as the need arises. You will be proactive in ensuring communication is clear and successful across the organisation maximising our effectiveness, and ensuring impact measurement (social and environmental) of all our activities is completed. Other tasks include basic financial administration tasks as well as administration and co-ordination of some aspects of health and safety. This is a varied role, offering support to the senior management team, as well as customer service, to achieve our strategic aims. You need to have excellent people skills and ensure you reflect our core values in all aspects of your work.
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For an informal chat about the role, please call 01630 638696 and ask for Marie
To apply: email your CV, completed application form and a covering letter explaining why you want to join the Fordhall team and what you find most exciting about the role to marie.gibson@fordhallfarm.com.
Interviews will be on a rolling basis
Casual Butcher
Our tenant farmer is looking for a flexible butcher to join his Farm Shop & Butchery team to work during busy periods and to cover staff holiday. Must have plenty of experience with pork, beef and lamb carcass. Must have a good work ethic and must be interested and passionate about processing our own animals here from Fordhall.
To apply or find out more, please email Farm Shop Manager, James on shop@fordhallfarm.com
Event Catering Assistants
Our tenant farmer runs 'Fordhall Event Catering Limited' a company that provides outside catering at venues across the country. They are looking for enthusiastic and hard-working individuals to join our dynamic event catering team at local and national events this year. You would be working on our mobile catering units, serving food and handling customer orders. No experience required, we ask that you have a can-do attitude and a good sense of humour! Ideal if you’re looking for a change of pace or for work around other commitments.
For more information please email theteam@fordhallfarm.com
What can I expect?
Inclusive environment
We welcome everyone - as you would expect from a community owned organisation! Expect a flexible and supporting approach to your needs
Develop and share skills
We not only want to develop the skills you have for your role, but we also want to know what all your ‘superpowers’ are and encourage you to use these across the organisation to help make Fordhall a real ‘Place in the Sun’ for everyone!
Make a difference
Each and every person, no matter what the role or hours worked, contributes to making Fordhall a place for enjoyment, learning, support and inspiration for our community.
Be rewarded
We offer competitive rates of pay, staff discounts for the shop, café and events, a recognition reward scheme as well as offering staff social events throughout the year.