Vancouver Island – we’re so excited to organize a young farmer mixer for early Spring! Help us get the word out that we’re looking for an event coordinator to organize it! More info below:
BC Young Agrarians
Young Agrarians (YA), a partnership with FarmFolk CityFolk, is focused on growing the next generation of ecological farmers in BC. YA is an online and offline network strategy to engage new and potential entrants into agro-ecology. Our main activities are: on-farm potlucks / tours / work bees, young farmer mixers, educational and land linking workshops, a pilot mentorship program, and online community engagement and tools creation.
Contract Description
We are looking for a dynamic individual who can take a leadership role within a tight timeframe. Your main role will be to coordinate a 2-day March 2014, Vancouver Island Young Farmer Mixer. After the Mixer, the selected candidate will continue to act as a communications hub in the bioregion for on-going activities at 5 hours per month. Young Agrarians is ideally looking for a farmer who needs off-season work. This position will be supported by both the Young Agrarians BC Coordinator and Communications Coordinator.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Coordinate Mixer logistics including: venue, outreach, volunteer engagement, program schedule and budget;
- Event manage weekend of Mixer;
- Create and disseminate outreach and promotional kit;
- Support development of Vancouver Island press and contact lists;
- Act as touchpoint person on Vancouver Island after Mixer to support farmers to organize and get the word out about on-going Young Agrarians events;
- Engage and utilize youngagrarians.org blog, social media channels, and add information to the Farm Resource Map;
- Support evaluation and impact assessment of events through tracking tools;
- Create a short wrap-up report on the year providing recommendations of best practices and next steps for the bioregion.
Qualifications:
- Proven track record coordinating events, working with volunteers and delivering programs within budget;
- Joy and ease outreaching and engaging multi-stakeholders;
- Farm/er Literate: minimum 2 years of experience in sustainable / ecological / organic agriculture and / or food production;
- Working proficiency with press, multi-media, wordpress, mailchimp and social media;
- High personal motivation, self-management and detail-orientation;
- Ability to take responsibility to meet deadlines and make progress without direct supervision;
- Excellent outreach, communications, relationship and community-building skills.
Deadline for applicants: January 5, 2014
Contract Dates: January 14th – December 14th, 2014
Contract Amount: $5,000 (hourly rate to be negotiated depending on experience)
Please send a resume and cover letter to Sara Dent: jobs@youngagrarians.org
This contract position has been made possible through the generous assistance of Vancity.