Company description

Garbage to Garden provides composting and recycling services to thousands of households, schools, restaurants, businesses, and events throughout Maine and Massachusetts. The ethos of Garbage to Garden is rooted in the spirit of sustainability and supporting the local economy while making composting as accessible and approachable as possible for all. 

Job description

Help the City of Medford go green! 

 

Medford, MA launched its city-wide municipal composting service on July 1, 2024 and Garbage to Garden is looking for a green-living/compost enthusiast to join the Medford Street Team to promote Medford’s City-wide Composting Program.

 

This opportunity involves paid shifts either driving or biking around Medford knocking on doors/engaging with residents in the community, and will continue throughout the summer or until we reach the maximum enrollment for the first year of the program. 

 

For more information about Medford’s new composting program: www.medfordcomposts.com 

For more information about Garbage to Garden: www.garbagetogarden.org 

 

Responsibilities include:

• Representing Garbage to Garden and the new city composting program
• Driving or biking around Medford neighborhoods
• Knocking on doors of eligible households
• Answering questions about Medford’s new composting program
• Onboarding interested residents
• Distributing curbside bins 
• Utilizing a tablet and accurately tracking progress and signup data 

 

The ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent communication skills 
• An interest in sustainability and recycling/composting
• A strong customer service mindset 
• Comfort engaging with strangers and diverse groups of people 
• A results oriented approach
• Willingness to learn on the fly
• Bike or vehicle to transport yourself and onboarding materials around the City of Medford, vehicle mileage will be reimbursed at federal reimbursement rate $0.67/mile* 
• Ability to walk/stand for long periods of time 
• Ability to lift 50+ lbs 
• Experience using technology such as tablets, Google suite, Excel, etc. 
• Experience in sales/marketing is a plus 
• At least 15-30 hours of weekly availability that includes weekends and afternoons/early evenings

 

*We have a customized bike-trailer available for the right candidate who is comfortable maneuvering a bike with a trailer around the city as an alternative to a personal vehicle. 

 

Compensation: $15.00/hour + commission 

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $15-20/hr

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline