Company description

Brookwood Community Farm is a non-profit (often female and/or non-binary run) production-focused farm with robust CSA, market, and donations outlets. Brookwood Community Farm (BCF) was founded in 2006 with the goals of restoring underutilized farmland near Boston, strengthening the local food system, and increasing access to healthy food in low-income neighborhoods. To us, sustainability means on-going improvements to our systems so we can maximize production without stressing our land or the staff. We also provide a space for our staff to learn farm-specific technical and mechanical skills, which is often hard to find! The farm cultivates five acres using organic practices, and is located just south of Boston by Blue Hills Reservation in Canton/Milton, MA. 

Job description

Brookwood Community Farm seeks a well-rounded and organized Farm Administrator with a strong focus on managing our CSA and Farm Stand, events, customer relations and communication. 

This position is full-time year round; the position would be a hybrid of on-site and remote.

The Farm Administrator will be responsible for managing Brookwood’s 400-member CSA and on-site Farmstand, events, and duties such as processing paperwork, marketing, community engagement, social media, and grant writing. Brookwood’s CSA and Farmstand run for 24 weeks between June-November, with pickups 3x per week. Our annual Seedling Sale runs for one weekend in May and our End of Season Sale occurs the Sunday before Thanksgiving.  

Key responsibilities:

• Streamline and maintain CSA member and farmstand administrative tracking for budgetary and production needs
• Streamline and maintain communications with members, workshares, and vendors
• Supply inventorying and ordering
• Planning and overseeing annual Seedling Sale and End of Season Sale, as well as other events as needed (summer concert series)
• Volunteer/workshare management

Ideal candidates would have a strong background in Excel, Square, Squarespace or other CRM platforms or similar apps and over all data sets.  A person with great interpersonal skills and background in social media is important.  Organization and attention to detail are vital to this role. Farming background is preferred. The position would not require field work. 

CSA & Farmstand 

• Streamline and maintain CSA and member and farmstand administrative tracking for budgetary and production needs.
• Process membership sign-ups and create pick-up lists
• Process EBT sign-ups and paperwork
• Create email lists for the newsletter
• Create and send monthly newsletter
• Streamline and maintain communications with members, workshares, and vendors (with the exception of the vegetable CSA vendors)
• CSA fruit, mushroom, and egg share management
• Maintain website products, waitlist, SNAP shares, low income shares
• Signage and marketing materials
• Troubleshoot issues with iPad and Square.
• Ensure CSA and farmstand are staffed and train workshares as needed
• Provide coverage for Farmstand and CSA tent as needed
• Manage ordering for Farmstand needs
• Weekly cashbox reconciliation and bank depositing
• Manage Farmer’s Market Coupon program and processing
• Applying for annual Farmer’s Market permits
• All items can be delegated as needed; the CSA Manager is responsible for ensuring everything happens but farm staff and board members can also help as needed. The CSA Manager also works closely with the Farm Manager to ensure that everything is presented in a way that is helpful to managers, treats the produce well, and is efficient for the farm.

Administrative  

• Planning and Point Person for Seedling Sale and End of Season Sale
• Schedule, train, and supervise volunteers leading up to and including the sales
• Communicate with DCR, get proper permits
• Administrative paperwork such as hiring forms, workers' comp claims
• Community relations in conjunction with the board
• Marketing for CSA, Market, Farmstand, Sales, events
• Register farmstand and farmer’s market with MDAR
• Grant writing involvement is possible
• Social media (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok)
• Schedule education and volunteer visits, paperwork, and payment
• Supply inventory and ordering
• Volunteer management
• Scan mail from the mailbox

Compensation includes an annual salary of $50,000, mid-season and end-of-season bonuses based on budgetary markers, a monthly healthcare stipend, a yearly education stipend, a generous PTO package, free farm produce and flowers, and wholesale cost of bought-in products. 

This position has an anticipated start date of mid-December 2025. 

Compensation

this position is: salaried, $50,000 - $75,000

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline