Canada Summer Jobs: School Grown Market Garden

1 week ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada FoodShare Toronto Full time

Canada Summer Jobs:
School Grown Market Garden Assistant

Main Tasks:

School Grown is a schoolyard farming Social Enterprise that provides paid jobs and school credit to high school youth. We grow food at Burnhamthorpe CI Farm and Eastdale CI Farm.

You will spend the spring, summer and fall seeding, weeding, harvesting, selling at the farmers market, and participating in weekly workshops about cooking, food justice, and anti-oppression.

The School Grown Market Garden Assistant will work alongside the School Grown Coordinator, supporting the maintenance of our school-based market garden, orchard, shelterbelt, pollinator garden, and the community compost exchange programs.


Job Requirements:

  • Be between 1530 years of age (inclusive)
  • Be a Canadian Citizen, permanent resident, or person on whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
  • Be legally entitled to work according to the relevant provincial legislation and regulations

Duties include (but are not limited to):

  • Support and maintain farm sites in collaboration with School Grown staff. This includes preparing garden beds, seeding, weeding, watering, and harvesting produce.
  • Support with harvesting and distribution of produce grown at the school farms by compiling weekly orders and assisting with harvest records and data management.
  • Run shifts at the onsite market which includes working along with other youth and collaborating in handling cash, merchandising products, and delivering friendly customer service
  • Support the Community Compost Exchange program once a week.
  • Work collaboratively with volunteers, student interns, coop students, and other School Grown staff to complete daily tasks.
  • Recording and managing of relevant production and marketing data
  • Farmer's market activities including supplying, setting up and closing down, merchandising, customer service, mentoring and supporting volunteers,
  • Participate in FoodShare staff and team meetings, all staff training, staff retreat and reporting requirements such as timesheets and handle other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience:

  • Demonstrated interest in communityled food projects and/or neighbourhoodbased community organizing
  • Demonstrated commitment to principles of food justice and equity
  • Demonstrated ability to work within a diverse community (people of different ages, abilities and cultural backgrounds)
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Effective communication and organizational skills
  • At least one year of experience gardening, growing food or working with plants is an asset
  • At least one year of experience working with youth in a community setting, is an asset
  • Knowledge of food systems, including growing, cooking, and composting, is an asset
  • Valid G Driver's License is an asset

Job Requirements:

  • Must meet Canada Summer Jobs Program requirements, outlined above
  • Willingness to do physical labour outside in all weather conditions (rain or shine)
  • Lifting and moving up to 40 pounds
  • Some evening work may be required (but you'll always know well in advance)
Please note that the successful applicant will be required to obtain a Vulnerable Sector Check. FoodShare will cover the cost of this requirement.

Salary:
$24.00 per hour*
Benefits: Daily lunch stipend, paid personal days, paid sick/wellness days

Duration: 9 weeks

Contract Type:
Fixed Term, Part-time (30 hours per week)

Reports to:
School Grown Coordinators

Location(s) of Position: Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute Farm - 500 the East Mall

Available Position Available: 2

Anticipated Start Day:

June 5th, 202- Note that as part of FoodShare's commitment to equity, all staff get equal pay for equal work.

As a result salaries and benefits are non-negotiable.

Selection Process:

  • The hiring committee may conduct a second round of interviews, which may include a pre-interview assignment, which would be compensated.

Please note:

FoodShare is a food justice organization.

This means that we are committed to working to identify and dismantle systemic forms of oppression that cause and perpetuate food security inequities.

Racialized people and others from equity-seeking groups are over-represented in food insecurity and poverty statistics but are significantly under-represented in community-based food organizations.

We believe that those most affected by an issue must have access to paid positions in organizations
tasked with challenging poverty and food insecurity.

FoodShare strives to create a workspace that reflects the diversity of identities and lived experiences that exist within the communities we work alongside.

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