Manager, Crenshaw Farmers' Market SEE-LA
- Date Posted July 27, 2020
- Location Los Angeles, CA
- Category Nonprofit
- Job type Part-Time
- Six farmers’ markets: Atwater Village, Central Avenue, Crenshaw, Echo Park, Hollywood, and MLK Campus.
- Benefits and Incentives Program which ensures that our markets serve as a venue for WIC and CalFresh redemption, partners with organizations to advocate for food access, and manages incentives which provide fruit and vegetable vouchers to low income customers.
- Bring the Farmer to Your School program, in which local California farmers have provided sessions about local agriculture to children at Title I schools for over 15 years.
- Pompea Smith Good Cooking | Buena Cocina Nutrition Education Program, which offers hundreds of nutrition education and cooking demonstrations across South LA each year. Job description
Sustainable Economic Enterprises of Los Angeles (SEE-LA) is the largest mission-driven operator of farmers’ markets in Southern California and a leader in improving food access and nutrition education. SEE-LA is seeking a part-time Farmers’ Market Manager to manage the operation of the Crenshaw Farmers’ Market on Saturdays from 10:00am to 3:00pm, currently located at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza (BHC), 3650 W. MLK Jr. Blvd, Los Angeles 90008.
Under the direction of SEE-LA’s Senior Manager, Farmers’ Market Operations, the Manager of the Crenshaw Farmers’ Market is responsible for the overall operation of the market, including but not limited to: vendor recruitment and retention, communications with the BHC management and staff, community organizations, market vendors, volunteers and other SEE-LA managers/staff, and organization of market activities and programs.
This position requires working Saturdays at the market (8:30 AM - 4:30 PM) and two (2), eight (8) hour days at SEE-LA’s office near Downtown LA and/or at home during COVID-19.