Title: | Garden to Table Assistant - The Open Door |
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ID: | 1507 |
Job Title: | Garden to Table Assistant - The Open Door |
Client: | The Open Door |
Application Deadline: | N/A |
Part Time Seasonal
- April 4th through October 31
- 30 hours a week
- $15/hr. + cell phone, mileage, paid holidays and paid time off.
Typical hours are weekdays between 8:30-2:30. Occasionally nights and weekends required.
The Open Door’s Mission: A fresh approach to ending local hunger through access to healthy food.
Background: The Open Door is a hunger relief agency that serves Dakota County, MN. Garden to Table is a sustainable approach to eliminating local hunger by empowering communities to learn and grow together. Over 300 garden plots are available at 12 sites across Dakota County for low-income families, and participation includes plants, seeds, tools, and training needed to grow healthy foods.
Garden to Table also organizes businesses, schools, churches, and other organizations to plant gardens and urban farms on their property and donate the produce to The Open Door’s food shelves.
Responsibilities:
Support volunteer shifts and community events
- Procure and organize materials needed for each event: daily volunteer shifts.
- Coordinate volunteer activities with supervisor
- Organize seed library
- Data Entry
- Occasionally assist in coordinating gardening and recipe classes
Support Program Operations
- Supervise small (1-5) and/or large volunteer groups (6-10 volunteers) during the growing season
- Coordinate and assist volunteers with tasks at each garden including turning compost piles, tracking fruit trees, pests, and harvest, plot, and path maintenance
- Follow up with gardeners by in-person, phone, and email on the following:
- Upkeep up the garden plots and take appropriate steps to ensure household/volunteer commitment
- Obtain unrecorded harvest weights
- Call gardeners for event reminders
Be an ambassador for The Open Door in the local gardening community
- Represent The Open Door’s mission and organizational values at all events and engagement activities as needed
Qualifications
- Vegetable gardening experience
- Experience effectively working with people from multiple cultures, races, and ethnicities
- Computer skills to include email, Microsoft, and data spreadsheets
- Flexibility to work evenings/weekends
- Ability to work independently and exercise good judgment and confidentiality
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong ability to communicate across cultures
- Bi-lingual in Spanish
Requirements
- The ability to work outdoors in all weather, including cold, hot, windy, rainy, as needed
- The ability to lift 40 pounds
- Possess a valid driver’s license and automobile insurance
- Travel with personal vehicle (mileage reimbursement provided)
- Pass successful background check
- Pass successful review of references
- Horticulture or agriculture experience
Required Event Hours
- Plant Pick-up Day May 12th 9-1 and 4-8
- Some evenings and weekends.
Preferred
- Bi-Lingual in Spanish or Russian
- Volunteer and Event coordination
- Light carpentry skills
- Fruit tree experience