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Farms Engagement Manager

The UK Agri-Tech Centre • Full-time • Remote (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) • £48,000 - £58,000 / year • 8h ago

Farms Engagement Manager

Application Deadline: 31 May 2026

Department: Engagement

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Northern Hub

Reporting To: Senior Farms Engagement Manager

Compensation: £48,000 - £58,000 / year

Description

Job purpose

· This role is responsible for coordinating, with other industry stakeholders, a national network of commercial demonstration farms that support the validation, showcasing, and scaling of emerging agri-tech innovations.
· The role will understand the consistency of approach, data capture, and delivery standards across the UK demonstration farm networks—enabling technologies to be demonstrated credibly, repeatedly, and at scale.
· The postholder will look to strengthen cooperation across demonstration farms while expanding the network to include innovative, commercially progressive farm businesses capable of accelerating adoption and sector-wide impact.

This role is field-based, which means you’ll be travelling to client sites, partner sites and our locations as part of your day-to-day work. You may also work from your home address for a minority of the week or attend one of our sites from time to time. Our main locations are: Oxford, York, Edinburgh, Cranfield, Newport (Midlands).

Key responsibilities

· Coordinate and map, with industry stakeholders, collaboration between demonstration farms nationally to share learning, challenges, and best practice.
· Ensure alignment between farm network activity and programme milestones, KPIs, and impact measurement requirements.
· Develop and understanding of scalable models for on-farm demonstrations across different sectors and production systems.
· Work closely with programme teams to ensure there is awareness of where technologies can be deployed in commercial farm environments across the UK
· Lead on collaborative demonstration events that showcase innovation in action.
· Identify forward-thinking commercial farms suitable for inclusion in the UK agri-tech centre partner farm network.
· Build and maintain strong relationships with potential new host farms and ecosystem partners.
· Expand the wider demonstration ecosystem, including collaboration with supply chain partners and advisory networks.
· Foster collaboration between farm hosts, engagement managers, industry stakeholders, and programme teams.
· Support the development of “host farm champions” who act as credible ambassadors for technology adoption.
· Ensure farm network activities contribute directly to commercialisation pathways for agri-tech ventures.
· Maintain accurate records of demonstration activity, data capture, and stakeholder engagement.
· Contribute to impact reporting, case studies, and portfolio-level performance metrics.

What we are looking for

· Deep understanding of commercial farming systems across the UK.
· Experience coordinating multi-site farm demonstration or farm network activity.
· Proven relationship-building skills with agri-tech ventures, value chain, primary producers and rural stakeholders.
· Organisational skills to manage national coordination activity.
· Experience working within an agri-tech or innovation programme environment.
· Understanding of data collection, benchmarking, and impact measurement.
· Established network with agri-tech ventures and UK agriculture.
· Network coordination and collaboration.
· Strategic relationship building.
· Clear communicator across technical and commercial audiences.
· Outcome-driven and organised.
· Systems thinking across innovation and adoption pathways.

Additional Information
Travel will be required.
UK driving licence is mandatory to have.

Why join us?

You will be part of a pioneering organisation driving innovation in agri-tech, whilst working in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment. There is opportunity to grow and develop within a newly established organisation, plus a range of benefits including:

33 days of annual leave with flexible public holidays allocation
Flexible working hours
4x salary life assurance
EAP with 24/7 helpline and expert advice service (legal, finance, health)
Pension salary sacrifice scheme availability
Fees for professional memberships
Ongoing training and development

If you are ready for a role that truly makes an impact - join us and be part of something meaningful. We’d love to hear from you!

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