Worlds End School is currency seeking a Livestock Manager; a full time salaried position ($45-52K/year). Candidates must either choose to live on the farm (rustic accommodation) or live within 30 minutes driving distance of the farm. 

Our work at Worlds End School is experimental: we are constantly learning and teaching alternative systems of value in an attempt to resist extraction, accumulation and domination. Our guiding principle: Collaboration with rather than dominion over. 

The culture at Worlds End is based on a generous spirit of hospitality and very hard work. We all identify as artists and we spend a lot of time eating together and laughing. We often feel we live in paradise, but we have to work very hard to maintain this alternative lifestyle. It is not easy; and requires excellent communication skills and high level of emotional intelligence. 

The Livestock Manager will manage the year-round care of approximately 20 Icelandic sheep, approximately 15 laying hens, 125 seasonal broiler chickens, and 7 honeybee hives. We encourage applicants to bring their own ideas around integrated livestock management to our school and are open to adding or revising our livestock program. We are continually adapting to change! We are looking for someone with great vigor and enthusiasm around interspecies site-specific relational work and the right candidate will identify comfortably as both a teacher and a student.

Specific Responsibilities:

Year-round management of Icelandic sheep: overseeing hay storage and winter feeding, overseeing lambing* (April) seasonal pasture management including intensive rotational grazing (every 3.5 days using electric net) mowing, oversee breeding, culling, managing freezer space for meat, shearing, wool production, curing pelts, ordering materials (minerals, hay, etc) as needed. 

*Must have experience with birthing sheep (or at least other ruminants).

Year-round management of poultry: maintain laying hens, feeding, monitor egg production, etc.; seasonally order and raise two rounds of broiler chickens, manage their culling and processing.

Year-round management of bees: hive health and maintenance, honey production, work toward developing healthy hives that can withstand our difficult changing winter weather patterns.

Education: Work with the Director and farm team to conceptualize educational offerings in livestock management, agriculture, ecosystem study, land-based business models, etc.