Jobs & Internships
DCGP is hiring!
One Vegetable One Community Coordinator
See below for internship opportunities, or visit our volunteer page to get involved! To apply for an internship, please send a cover letter and resume to garden@duluthcommunitygarden.org with the subject line ‘Internship’.
One Vegetable One Community Coordinator
To apply, send resume and cover letter to Megan Wylder, DCGP Program Manager at megan@duluthcommunitygarden.org
$20.00/hour, 11 hours/week for 20 weeks, Mar 23 - Nov 15 2020 (not working every week)
Application deadline: March 6th.
General Description and Purpose
This position exists to bring One Vegetable One Community (OVOC) programming to the Duluth Community. The OVOC program began in 2011. Each year members of DCGP nominate and vote on the vegetable of the year at the annual fall Harvest Potluck. The 2020 vegetable is: broccoli! The OVOC Coordinator will oversee the OVOC program for the DCGP. This position will create OVOC lessons for school and community programming. They will go to Duluth public schools to lead gardening lessons, and communicate with teaching staff to evaluate if the program has met its desired outcomes. The OVOC Coordinator will organize community OVOC workshops, taste tests, and cooking demos at the Lincoln Park Farmers Market and other community events.
Qualifications
This person will need to be an excellent educator, communicator, and community organizer, as well as enthusiastic about food growing (and broccoli). They will also need to harbor a wide skill set ranging from curriculum creation and administration, to organizing and promoting workshops, to social media management and video editing.
Reportability
Reports to Program Manager.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Duluth Community Garden Program does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression.
Join the DCGP Community!
Land Stewardship Intern:
The intern will work with the Land Stewardship Coordinator maintaining the 21 DCGP gardens. Responsibilities would likely include, but not be limited to: helping to facilitate Work Bees, maintaining garden common areas including repairing infrastructure, maintaining the tool library, updating spreadsheets of gardener and volunteer information, tending the DCGP garlic crops and food shelf plots, leading volunteer groups, tilling garden plots, and researching gardening best practices and responding to gardener questions.
Videographer & Graphic Design Internship:
DCGP has been improving the lives of Duluthians for 4 decades. Help us tell our story through the art of videography and graphic design. Give the DCGP gardens a voice and document how DCGP gardeners and garden make an impact on the Duluth Community. Interns must have access to their own camera and editing equipment.
Other Internship/Volunteer Opportunities:
DCGP can tailor an internship or volunteer opportunity to match your skills. We welcome a variety of students looking to expand their experiences. Learn how to manage volunteers, run a volunteer event, work in the gardens, and organize big projects like building a fence in our gardens!