Job description

The Kitchen Community, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, was established in 2011 as the philanthropic arm of The Kitchen restaurants with the mission to create “Community Through Food” by planting Learning Gardens in schools and community organizations across America.  Since being founded in 2011, The Kitchen Community (TKC) has impacted approximately 100,000 children with over 167 Learning Gardens in schools and community organizations across the U.S. These Learning Gardens serve as attractive outdoor classrooms and experiential play spaces with edible vegetables. Here, teachers want to teach and children want to play.

Garden Educator Job Description

Primary responsibility is to work with school Garden Teams to ensure they have the materials, personnel, skills, and confidence to successfully grow vegetables in their Learning Garden. Garden Educators work closely with teachers, students, and volunteers. Garden Educators are the main point of contact for all schools with Learning Gardens; Garden Educators can expect to work intimately with up to 35 gardens.  

Responsibilities:  

• Serve as the primary resource to schools and TKC surrounding plants, soil, and watering techniques.
  
• Assist schools in developing their individual garden plans and specific gardening issues.
  
• Assist schools in acquiring seeds, seedlings, and additional soil.
  
• Identify monthly garden needs/resources and to do’s, communicate to schools through in-person meetings, email, phone calls, documents and workshops.
  
• Develop gardening-related information sheets.
  
• Review and share garden-related online resources with schools.
  
• Help identify and create online resources and videos for schools.
  
• Create content for Ideas Email and send to all regions/schools.
  
• Assist with Community Planting Day and site-specific event days.  
  
• Facilitate garden skills workshops for all schools with Learning Gardens.
  
• Create and set the agenda/template for each garden-based workshop.
  
• Create documents and videos to support information learned in workshops.
  
• Work with Community Network Manager to pair workshops with lesson plans that are in line with the workshop theme and the goals of the organization.
  
• Collect evaluation data and feedback from attendees of the workshop.
  
• Communicate with TKC team on dates and times of events.
  
• Keep website resources up to date.
  
• Collect needed information as guided from the up to 35 school relationships during school visits.
  
• Communicate with team on advised milestones for schools for garden evaluation.  

Qualifications  

• Minimum Bachelor degree in related field.
  
• Preferred Master Gardener Certificate.
  
• Preferred teaching experience.
  
• Extensive knowledge and skills in small-scale organic food production or home gardening.
  
• Knowledge of or interest in topics including urban gardening, botany, environmental science, health and nutrition, food systems, and food access.
  
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse populations including youth and adults.
  
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including public speaking skills.
  
• Ability to work independently and be flexible.
  
• Ability to multi-task and coordinate several major activities at once.
  
• Proficient computer and project management skills.  

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