Small Farm Business Administrator

Our organic  farm business contains many parts. We are looking for someone passionate about business administration, co-design and management who wants to work in regenerative agriculture in rural Maine. We are looking for a very fine collaboration with a very fine person to do very fine work. 

We live and work in a most beautiful place. Much of this work is computer based, but it is a computer that is sitting looking out Cobscook Bay, overtop of a garden and orchard of a diverse salt water farm with 4 greenhouses, 400 fruit and berry bushes, with U pick wild blueberries and cranberries, with an 1896 odd fellows hall full of agricultural library and film screening area, with hiking trails and nature adventures in every direction. With free access to beautiful farmed and local organic food, beautiful people, quaint seaside towns, lovely architecture and flat enough to bike everywhere.  We need someone who has discipline and good work etiquette, who is responsible and accountable, who is precise and emotionally mature, who is committed to the mission and the follow through that achieving that mission will take. 

This position pays $25-40/ hour depending on background

Our business entails:

Farming and wild harvesting of algae and herbs

Value added processing of farm products

Farm store

Farm-based hospitality program with summer camps, residential educational courses, partnerships

Hip camp/ Airbnb agri-tourism 

We also have bookkeeping needs for Greenhorns, our partner organization who hosts the educational programming. Greenhorns is a fiscally sponsored 501(c)3 not for profit organization.
 

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Bookkeeping 

Sales management

Wholesale accounts management

Payroll oversight

Property management

Insurance oversight

HR financial oversight

Organic certification

Aquaculture licensing oversight

Processing licensing oversight

Business development and co-design

New products licensing and development

SKILLS

Quickbooks

Woo Commerce

Kindness, patience, self-starting, attention to details, strong communication

Preference for a degree in business, accounting, MFA equiv experience

Preference for a background in small business administration

Computer skills!

Integrity and detailed focus

Able to work with creative people in a diverse, fast paced, educational work environment