JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: "Grow the Garden" Project Coordinator Hayward Community Gardens 25051 Whitman Street Hayward, CA 94541 510-537-8901
The Administrative Committee of the Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it now has funding to hire a part-time coordinator for HCG's new "Grow the Garden" project. This project is intended to help increase food security in our community by providing education and distributing vegetable starts, while helping HCG become more financially sustainable through market sales. Start/end date: February 14, 2005 to December 31, 2005 (may be extended, contingent on additional funding) Pay: $12/hr, to include mileage at 40 cents per mile. Hours: 15-20 hours per week for 45 weeks. Schedule flexible but should include mostly regular hours, to be determined in meeting with Board. Qualifications: Applicants should - Have demonstrable interest in community gardening and be comfortable working with people from diverse backgrounds - Be familiar with plant propagation and/or greenhouse management - Speak, read, write English fluently. Conversational Spanish strongly encouraged. - Have excellent communication and organizational skills - Have basic computer skills (for marketing and workshop promotion and outreach) Duties: The "Grow the Garden" Project Coordinator will work with the project's Directors, with HCG's part-time Program Coordinator, with the Operations and Administrative Committees of the Board of Directors, and with the gardens' Facilities, Market, and Rules Sub-committees, and will help coordinate volunteers, to do the following tasks: - Plan for appropriate quantities and sizes of seedlings to be grown - Order seed, seedling and potting media and other propagation/potting supplies - Develop sowing and transplanting schedules - Maintain optimal greenhouse conditions - Prepare seedlings for distribution to members, market plots, and local markets - Market seedlings (coordinate pricing, distribution and sales to the Hayward Farmers' Market and other potential markets) - Keep records of materials grown, distributed and sold, and of income generated by seedling project. Report periodically to Board. - Work with interested high schools to develop educational programs and supervise student teams on site. - Test for member interest and hold appropriate on-site workshops in plant-breeding and propagation, and related topics of urban food production, food security, etc. - Support the HCG Program Coordinator in general garden tasks as found appropriate and necessary. Interested applicants should send a letter of application and a resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or to the HCG office, addressed to "Hiring Committee" (at the address listed above). Review of applications will begin January 24. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Hayward Community Gardens is an equal opportunity employer. Questions regarding the position can be directed to "the hiring committee" at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
