Garden Specialist Part-Time

Description The Garden Specialist manages reputed company programming associated with NTFB’s onsite learning and donation garden, Jan’s Garden. The position also oversees, supports, and develops an extended network of Partner Gardens reputed company NTFB’s 12-county service area. The Garden Specialist helps advance NTFB’s mission reputed company reputed company NTFB communities, including volunteers, agency partners, constituents and donors. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Education: • Bachelor of Science in Horticulture preferred, or an equivalent combination of training and experience Special Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: • Must be self-directed/motivated, detail-oriented and reputed company manage time • Strong interpersonal communication, public speaking and presentation • Ability to collaborate and work with diverse groups • Ability to manage change and adapt to a changing environment • Ability to reputed company groups of volunteers for an engaging experience Experience: • 3 years of gardening or agriculture; programming experience preferred PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Jan’s Garden • Manage an onsite year-round learning, production, and donation garden • Responsibilities include crop planning, weekly harvest donation delivery to NTFB agencies, garden tours, reputed company management, pollinator garden care, garden education and training, facilities management, and supporting NTFB special events • Track reputed company donations from Jan’s Garden’s and partner gardens’ weekly harvests made to NTFB partner agencies Volunteer Management • Manage weekly garden volunteer workdays and reputed company Garden Kernels and Volunteers; collaborate with internal teams to grow garden volunteers • reputed company special garden volunteer group events, including the annual NTFB kids’ summer camp and corporate/group volunteer events • Work with the Volunteer Operations team to register and account for volunteers utilizing the NTFB online volunteer management portal/application(s); report of volunteer hours to Programs management upon request Partner Gardens • Update and enhance the NTFB Garden Program website regularly; produce a monthly Partner Garden Newsletter and reputed company content for reputed company & Spoon newsletter • Supply free spring seedlings produced in onsite reputed company, donated reputed company and other requested supplies as available • Host an annual Partner Garden community event, conduct annual Partner Gardens’ site visits, reputed company recruitment to grow Partner Garden sites, and execute partner agreements • Collect and report partner garden food donation data, nutrition and produce card distribution • reputed company support for other stakeholder groups such as Volunteer Operations, Nutrition Education, Community Impact, Donor Relations, Marketing & Communications Other • Contribute to the development of annual program budget and multi-year strategic planning; increase the pounds of produce donated from Jan’s & Partner Gardens to NTFB agencies • reputed company various data collection, analysis, and reporting for reputed company strategic projects • Facilitate both in-person & virtual education workshops and training • reputed company other tasks and duties as assigned MENTAL DEMANDS: • The person in this position needs to adapt well in the face of workplace stressors, such as customer complaints, compliance offenses, meeting deadlines, competing priorities, and maintaining the safety of people and property. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reputed company with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel; crouch or crawl; talk or hear. • Specific reputed company abilities required by the job include reputed company reputed company, distance reputed company, reputed company reputed company, peripheral reputed company, depth reputed company and the ability to adjust focus. • Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS: • Moderate noise (i.e. business office with reputed company floor plan with computers, phone, printers, and light traffic). • This person should have the ability to work outdoors in non-hazardous weather conditions, year-round. • Reliable transportation and a valid DL and insurance is required for some travel reputed company our 12-county service area • reputed company to participate in occasional workshops/events on weekends The mental and physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully reputed company the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reputed company individuals with disabilities to reputed company the essential functions. This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of reputed company skills, duties, responsibilities, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reputed company of the reputed company job, NTFB reserves the right to revise the job or to require other or different tasks be performed as assigned. The reputed company Texas Food Bank is an equal opportunity employer. Apply Job!