Campus Crops is hiring!

Campus Crops is now hiring a Garden Coordinator

Position Dates: June 1 - September 15

Hours: 20-25 hours/week

Pay Rate: $ 3000

About Campus Crops:

Campus Crops is an urban gardening initiative at McGill University's downtown campus. For five years, we have been running a garden behind the McGill School of Environment building at 3534 University. Three years ago we expanded to the terrace space behind the James Administration building and built a self-watering container garden. Apart from maintaining our two garden plots, we also organize workshops, film screenings and other activities. If you have any questions feel free to email campuscrops@gmail.com or check out our blog for what sort of things we've done in the past!

Responsibilities:

- Day to day operations in the garden: setting gardening hours with volunteers, planting, building self-watering containers, weeding, harvesting, etc

- Community outreach, recruiting volunteers

- Collaborating with Santropol Roulant's Edible Campus Garden on workshops, events, and volunteer base

- Preparing a workshop for RadFrosh at the end of August, as well as other workshops throughout the season

- Liaise with administration on campus (SSMU, SPF, MSE, Grounds, etc.)

- Design and facilitate a training for new collective members in the fall (including an overview of our mandate and consensus based decision-making)

- Prepare a written exit report to be presented to the collective at the end of September

Qualifications:

- Ability to work autonomously

- Ability to work with volunteers (able to organize and delegate tasks to volunteers)

- Ability to work in English

- Ability to plan events

- Gardening experience

- Strong organizational skills

- Strong knowledge/interest of food-related political, social, economic and environmental issues, urban agriculture and/or food preservation

- Commitment to social change and to Campus Crops' mandate of social and environmental justice and ability to apply this to all aspects of the job

Assets:

- Familiarity with Campus Crops’ work

- Familiarity with Montreal-area community groups

- Ability to speak French

- Ability to perform the physical tasks involved with garden upkeep

- Knowledge of plant pests & diseases management

Application Deadline:

Please submit your resume by May 10th to campuscrops@gmail.com. There is an option to submit a brief cover letter explaining your interest in Campus Crops and the position. Selected candidates will be interviewed from the 13th - 17th.  

Notes:

We welcome a diversity of applicants including those from traditionally marginalized groups, and we encourage you to mention this in your application.