FuturesNW & Common Threads Food Educator Positions Available for High School Students!
Garden and Kitchen Support Needed at Common Threads Farm for Spring/Summer 2022
Would you like to have a summer job? Do you love to garden, cook, and teach kids? Or, do you not really know how to do those things yet, but think it would be fun to learn? If so, Common Threads’ garden and kitchen support roles may be a good fit for you!
Our ideal candidates will:
Be curious, passionate, adaptable, caring
Contribute lived experience that helps diversify the perspectives represented on our team. People of color, transgender individuals, members of the LGBTQ community, people whose first language is one other than English, men, high school students, and people with lived experience of hunger and poverty are particularly encouraged to apply.
Be excited to work with kids, and with food from seed to table (gardening and cooking)
Demonstrate a willingness to work flexibly as part of a team as well as a willingness to communicate promptly about questions, problems, and challenges
Position responsibilities:
As a garden support person, you will work closely with our AmeriCorps food educators to tend school gardens and to support elementary and middle school students in garden-based lessons (only if you’re available during the school day!)
As a kitchen support person, you will work closely with our AmeriCorps food educators to prepare and distribute food in a variety of settings ranging from in school, student-prepared meals to after-school clubs to summer camps and a mobile food truck
In both positions, you will make a difference in the lives of young people by providing them not only with increased access to nourishing food but also with caring connections with a near-peer role model (that’s YOU!)
Note - if you’re hoping to be involved in both gardening and cooking, please indicate that preference on your application
Other requirements:
Willing to have a Washington State Background check run (a criminal record is not necessarily disqualifying)
Fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or able to demonstrate a religious or medical exemption.
How to apply:
Total time commitment will be between 10-15 hours/week depending on how your availability matches our scheduling needs
Compensation: $14.49 per hour
Please send your cover letter and resume to Megan Wingo at mwingo@futuresnw.org.