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Campus Garden Worker
Job ID 1725
Job Type On-Campus
Employer OCU - Agroecology
Date Posted Jul 02, 2024
Category Manual Labor
Job Description

This position is primarily focused on campus food gardens & composting system management, but will include outreach, activities and teamwork with the GMC Center for Sustainability projects and events. Position duties include overall care of the campus vegetable & herb gardens (duties vary seasonally), poultry care, collecting food waste & recycling around campus, maintaining compost piles, waste audits, and affiliated campus sustainability projects (such as harvest distribution). Peer leadership skills are critical as workers are managers of people (co-workers, student volunteers, clubs, classes), as well as serving as environmental educators and ambassadors of Prescott College's campus food gardens. If you're excited about growing dietary diversity, caring for plants, animals & soil, food access for students, and enhancing soil fertility by cycling campus food waste to enrich our urban gardens' growing capacity, and you are able to spend 7-10 hours weekly, including a mandatory staff team meeting, from August-December and January through June, please apply!

Job Requirements
  • strong work ethic
  • dependability, reliability
  • flexibility (to adapt to seasonally shifting maintenance, care, and outreach duties) 
  • desire to develop knowledge, skills & leadership abilities related to sustainability education and outreach  
  • Willing to participate in training and to gain knowledge & skills related to care of plants and soil, composting, garden equipment maintenance, and agroecology prinicples & practices. 
  • Able to participate in weekly, in-person Sustainability Center Crew meetings and communicate promplty (via group text, emails) to coordinate tasks in synch with workers and other Center intitiatives, as led by the Sustainability Coordinator and Directors.
Available Openings 6
Work-Study Requirement? Yes, required
Hours 15.0 to 20.0 hours per week
Hourly Rate $14.35/hour
Time Frame Academic Year
Contact Name M. Eleanor Tison
Contact Email eleanor.tison@prescott.edu
Work Location Prescott
Phone 9282780686
Fax N/A


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