The role is part-time and will run from late September to early February and although the project itself is focussed on the Welsh context, applicants are not required to be based in Wales.
The ‘residency’ opportunity is for a professional with experience working in the school food sector to lend their expertise and knowledge to support Nesta’s healthy life mission team, which is aiming to halve the prevalence of obesity by 2030.
The team sees an opportunity to influence primary school meals in Wales with the current roll-out of free school meals for all primary school children there. It is interested in testing new approaches to ensure children benefit as much as possible from these meals.
The aim is to produce an overview of current best practice for school meal menu design in Wales and beyond, looking at the opportunities, constraints and potential levers for improving school meal menus. This will include nutritional content, operational challenges and economics of large-scale meal provision.
Out of this the project should generate recommendations for how Nesta, as an innovation agency, should approach working alongside other stakeholders to make improvements to school meal menus in Wales.
For a full description of the opportunity, requirements, and how to apply visit: https://media.nesta.org.uk/documents/Open_Call_AHL_-_brief.pd