Lead Education Coordinator – Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society – Vancouver

Application Deadline: August 3rd, 2015

Good Food For All

Everyone deserves access to healthy food, soil, and community.

We enact this vision by cultivating engaging gardens and programs that catalyze healthy eating, ecological stewardship, and community celebration. Fresh Roots stewards two ½ acre schoolyard market gardens on school grounds in the heart of East and South Vancouver. The food we grow is eaten in local school cafeterias, various Neighbourhood House food security initiatives, and by neighbours. Our fields are hands-on learning classrooms; engaging school communities and residents of Vancouver in addressing food security, community health, and vocational skills development.

We’re looking for the right person to help us integrate experiential learning and Good Food into school. This position is fundamentally creative, where you will design, build, and grow. You will see your dreams enacted. We are outside, engaging with neighbors, stakeholders, and friends to connect our communities to their food, their environment and one another. We hope that you join us.

The Position

The Lead Education Coordinator will develop and activate outdoor experiential learning for students in secondary and elementary schools. The coordinator will work closely with the Executive Director to facilitate teacher use of garden spaces, empower student-led initiatives in the garden, and develop field trip programming. You will:

Train-the trainer – develop and implement professional development courses for teachers and youth workers.
Champion and facilitate outdoor experiential learning for educators in the school community. Primary focus with secondary schools with schoolyard market gardens
Grow and implement field trip programs for K-7 throughout school year
Support our corporate volunteer program
Champion growth in all our educational programs through monitoring and evaluation
Celebrate Good Food through engaging and educational events for the school community
Teaching experience required: formal or informal
Summer camp counsellor experience, an asset
Gardening and/or culinary experience
Familiarity with BC Curriculum and Vancouver School Board
Experience working with adolescent youth; experience working with special needs youth an asset
Physically fit to work outdoors in all conditions
Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal, facilitation and computer skills
Well-organized with excellent follow-through on tasks
Good team contributor, has a sense of humour, willingness to take initiative, think and act proactively to solve problems and assess priorities, and manage a variety of tasks calmly and effectively
Experience using word press website and various social media platforms.
Experience using Adobe Creative Suite, an asset
First Aid Certification; Foodsafe or Marketsafe Certification
Subject to a criminal record check
Driver’s Licence
Begins August 17th
24 hrs / week with opportunity to grow
$20 – $24 / hr – Wage commensurate with experience.

Required Qualifications

Position Details

How to Apply

E-mail a short cover letter and resume (in one document) to:
marc@freshroots.ca
with your name and the name of the job position in the subject.

Applications must be received no later than August 3rd. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We regret that due to the high volume of applicants only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Fresh Roots hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. We encourage all qualified persons to apply.

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