We are pleased to let you know that Organiclea is looking to recruit a part-time worker at our Hawkwood growing site:
Vegetable and Fruit Production Worker
Download the full job description, person specification and application information here
Organiclea took over the lease of the 12 acre Hawkwood site in Northeast London in January 2010. With the support of a Big Lottery Food Fund grant we have been developing a community-based organic market garden which includes a core volunteering programme. Produce is distributed through our own box-scheme and market stalls and to several catering outlets in North London. Five part-time workers are based at the site, supported by around 30 volunteers each week.
With one year of the grant left, we are working to achieve project sustainability to support work at the site. We are seeking to recruit a new member of the five-person team. We are looking for a skilled food grower whose main task is to play a key role in vegetable production in the market garden (working with our main grower), and lead volunteers in horticultural activity. They will have additional responsibility for coordinating the fruit growing elements of the site’s design.
We need a passionate food grower to help us to shape the development of a cooperative, community-based, sustainable alternative to the current destructive food system. This is a unique, vital and urgent journey that will demand commitment and dedication. Your fellow travellers will be the team of growers, organisers and mechanics at the Hawkwood site; and the gardeners, grocers, community workers and citizens who form the ‘Organiclea family’.
Applicants must be able to clearly demonstrate organisational skills, volunteer supervision experience, horticulture experience and a commitment to the empowering role that food growing contributes to community life and resilience.
21 hours/3 days per week at £11.50 an hour, [currently Tues, Thurs and Fri], with occasional week-ends; plus additional unpaid coop responsibilities. [Site days are under review and may change by April 2012.] We are recruiting for a one year post. Extension is dependent on project financing and income generated. We are working hard to achieve this.
Location: Hawkwood Community Plant Nursery, Chingford, London E4 7UH
To apply, please send us a letter of application outlining why you are interested in this post and how your experience meets the requirements of this post. Please relate this to each of the points set out in the person specification – available to download here.
Please also let us know how you found out about this post and include the names of two referees which we will follow up if offered the post.
You can email this to clare@organiclea.org.uk
Or post/deliver to:
Clare Joy
Organiclea Community Growers
Hawkwood Plant Nursery
115 Hawkwood Crescent
London E4 7UH
Closing date Thursday 24 November by midday
Interviews at the Hawkwood site: Friday 2 December
Handover week with departing member of team: 3 days, 14-16 December
Official start date Tuesday 31st January 2012
(Unfortunately we cannot commit to contacting all applicants personally who have applied for a post. If you do not hear from us, please assume that you have not been short-listed.)
For additional information about the opportunity contact Clare at the Hawkwood site on 020 8524 4994.
