Job description

Are you interested in helping people grow their own food? Want to gain community organizing skills and promote food justice in your community?

Growing Gardens is searching for a full-time AmeriCorps member to support our Home Gardens Program. The Home Gardens Program works with limited resourced families to build home vegetable gardens and provides three years of gardening education and support including tools, seeds, plant starts, classes, mentoring and more.

The Home Gardens Coordinator will work alongside families, volunteers, and local partners to conduct outreach, coordinate home garden installations, and provide seeds, plant starts, tools, gardening glasses, mentoring and support to limited-resourced families and individuals. Support fresh-food access, knowledge sharing and community building!
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Benefits include:

• $12,530 living allowance paid over term of service
• $5,730 Education Award upon completion of term of service
• Health Insurance
• Child Care Reimbursement (for those who qualify)
• Professional development, trainings and networking opportunities

For more information, please download the full Position Description.

Apply by June 30, 2015 with a resume and cover letter in PDF format and include the applicant's name in the PDF filename. Send to

emily@growing-gardens.org

or mail to

Growing Gardens
2203 NE Oregon Street
Portland, OR 97232

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Deadline

June 30, 2015