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J ob Opening Posting: Director of Cultivation
Updated: May 2, 2022

Posted: May 2, 2022
Open for Application until May 23, 2022

Job Highlight
Director of Cultivation : Use your farming expertise to support farmers who farm with a social mission. Work remotely answering their questions. Connect them with farmers within Eden
Streets member network. In this nonprofit leadership role, you will work closely with the
Executive Director and Director of Membership. See job post . Ideal for someone currently employed who has a few hours each week to make a big difference!

Organization Description
Eden Streets is an association of farmers with social missions. We empower farmers to cultivate people and grow community. We empower communities and farmers to resolve the barriers of those experiencing homelessness or other complex challenges. By working with community p artners, we aim to fund farm projects to address specific social needs. Based on best practices, Eden Streets provides turn-key farm project consulting, design, construction, and operational oversight. We then partner with farm operators who run these farms. We connect farmers with social missions with the resources they need to more effectively cultivate people and grow communities. Eden Streets does this by providing its farmer members networking, e ducation, and public awareness.

Position Overview
T he Director of Cultivation, an officer reporting directly to the Executive director, has sufficient practical farming experience and expertise to be able to converse with experienced farmers and then connect them with the resources E den Streets offers, whether that be people or information. This position is a remote role that can be managed from anyone living in the c ontinental United States or Canada. The Director of Cultivation is keenly aware of the transformative impacts of farming with a social mission both at the individual and community level. The Director of Cultivation practices excellent people sensitivity, listening, and communication skills. The Director of Cultivation is knowledgeable about how to practically empower farmers with social missions to cultivate individuals and grow communities. The
Director of Cultivation is responsible for recruiting new members and energizes current members through farm-related online or in-person activities, events, workshops, and interaction.
The Director of Cultivation participates in monthly officers meetings to give critical feedback and represent the farmer’s perspective. Based on extensive experience, the Director of Cultivation is able to answer detailed questions of our members and/or connect them with other farmers

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within or without Eden Streets’ network doing similar work. The Director of Cultivation is responsible for farmer training related to those unique aspects of farming with a social mission.

By direct contact with our farmer members and candidate members, the Director of Cultivation determines what our farmer members really value. The Director of Cultivation then communicates this value to the rest of the organization. The Director of Cultivation is responsible for delivering Eden Streets value offerings in the form of programs and information.
The Director of Cultivation is also accountable for documenting the body of knowledge encompassed within the scope of farming with a social mission.

Primary Responsibilities

• Recruiting potential members (farmers with social missions)
• Farmer Program Conception and Design
• Active engagement and feedback in monthly officer meetings (90 minutes)
• Best Practices Documentation
• Event planning and hosting (Eco-Farm Conference)
• Critiquing website content and design
• Approving Eden Streets expenditures, budgets (Travel, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications
Passion

• Growing Organic, Healthy Food
• Fundamental understanding of the power of the earth - to re-launch people’s lives
• Keen awareness of the social aspects of the work - positively impacting the lives of thousands through the farming experience
• Building community through farming

Knowledge - Demonstrated Competency

• Permaculture (Preferred)
• Farm design (Preferred)
• Farm building (Preferred)
• Farm Management and Operation (Required)

Skills

• Farm Construction & Maintenance (Preferred)
• Communication - powerfully talking with others about the farm, nature, etc.
• Adult education
• Creativity
• Critical Thinking - Being blunt and yet sensitive and knowing the difference between the two different approaches
• Challenges reasoning of others and is not afraid to speak out
• Solving problems

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• Planning and execution of a plan
• Responsible and reliable to personal commitments

Reputation

• Fits Eden Streets brand:
• Simple, Grounded, Trustworthy, Generous, full of life

Education

• N on-profit work experience ( preferred)
• G ood at speaking, engaging others
• Effective Social media use (Preferred)
• P ermaculture (Preferred)
• Use of computer online conferencing tools
• Use of spreadsheets and text documents

S ocial Skills

• Connects well with farmers
• W illing to Listen
• Refrains from making quick judgments
• E ffective Conflict Resolution

Experience

• Farming with a social mission
• Farming for at least 2 years - understands farmers and talks their language
• F arm building and startup (Preferred)
• S ales experience (Preferred)
• Permaculture course graduate with experience in project design and construction

( Preferred)

• Event Planning (Preferred)

Hours

• 3 to 8 hours a week (part time until organization can support full-time position)
• Participate in monthly officers meeting that is 90 minutes- (Video conf)

Salary and Benefits
P ay:

• S tarting at $25/ hour - paid initially as a contractor
• W ill increase as we get our first partner contracts

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Job Types: Part-time, Contract

Pay: From $400.00 per month

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote

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