Greenhouse Operations & Sales Coordinator, f/t (YEIP), FoodCycles, Toronto ON
Available as of: Mar 12 2010
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Position: Greenhouse Operations and Sales Coordinator
Type: full-time, 9 month position [YEIP eligibility, details below]
Organization: FoodCycles Community Soil and Food Projects Inc. http://foodcycles.org
Location: Toronto, Ontario
FoodCycles is offering a 9 month, full time Greenhouse
Operations and Sales Coordinator position.
In this dynamic position, approximately 60% of your time you will:
- Growing micro-greens, sprouts and salad and maintaining records
- Worm husbandry including feeding, watering, harvesting the castings
- Participate in our compost endeavors and monitor our outdoor compost piles
- Sowing and tending to raised beds
- Washing, cooling, and packaging produce for sale
- Sales and delivery of produce
- Support our educational programming by leading tours,
working with volunteers and attending workshop
- Assistance with CSA pick ups, market garden and CSA planning
40% of your time will be spent:
- Assist with business development of our farm, attracting new
local and restaurant customers
- Maintaining current business relationships
- Development of a marketing plan for our farmer’s market and
implementing that plan to increase business
- Creating marketing tools such as pamphlets, price lists,
brochures and campaigns to increase awareness of both our
project and produce
- Maintain tool inventory and library, ensuring that the
greenhouse and it’s tools and resources are kept clean
and orderly
Special Requirements:
- Interest and enthusiasm about food growing
- Willingness to be involved in field work.
- Proper clothing and footwear suitable for field work
- Access to a computer and Internet
Minimum Qualifications:
- Post Graduate education in a related field
- Experience and basic theoretical knowledge in organic and
sustainable food production systems.
- Demonstrated success in sales and marketing
- At least an entire season on a farm or garden project
- Strong work ethic and a positive attitude.
- Ability to lift 50 lbs
- Experience with data entry and processing
- Experience coordinating and working with volunteers
FoodCycles offers an opportunity to:
- Learn and develop critical farm marketing strategy
- Acquire skills and knowledge for selling produce for CSA,
commercially and in retail environment such as Farmer’s Markets
- Learn hands on agricultural skills while playing a critical role
in the management and development of a start up urban farm
- Learn and develop greenhouse skills, bed preparation and
seeding, transplanting, mulching, cultivation, harvesting,
weeding, vegetable preparation, packaging and distribution
- Learn the basic issues and challenges facing sustainable and
organic agriculture in an urban context
- Learn and develop various methods and strategies for growing
vegetables organically
- Learn and develop various methods and strategies for growing
and maintaining a vermi-composting system.
Interested candidates are asked to forward a current resume
and cover letter to: torontocompost [at} gmail.com
Application deadline: March 16th, 2010 at 5pm. (may be extended to Mar 23, 2010 because of short notice given)
Start Date: April 1, 2010
Hours: 37.5
This position is being funded through the Youth Eco
Internship Program (YEIP)*. This program places unemployed
people aged 15 to 30 from diverse backgrounds into paid
internship opportunities within the non-profit and community
services sector in Canada with a focus on the environment.
These positions, offered in a wide range of organizations,
will help young Canadians learn the skills required to gain
and sustain future employment within the sector.
This project is a collaboration between the YMCA and YWCA
Canada, with funding provided by the Government of Canada’s
Economic Action Plan. The YEIP encourages applicants from
visible minority, Aboriginal, immigrant, refugee and
traditionally marginalized communities to apply, and is
committed to providing employment supports wherever possible.
When applying, please indicate that you saw this posting on the FoodCycles Web site.
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