SUPPORT HOUSEHOLD FOOD & ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY!

Summer Job Opportunity

 

Position: Green Living Coordinator
Type: summer job / age 30 & under
Organization: The Boreal Centre for Sustainability
Location: BC Moberly Lake (north-east BC) and remote office access as per mutually agreed workplan

As Green Living Coordinator, your tasks and responsibilities will be to complete work assignments through a division of on-site and limited remote access and based on a regularly maintained workplan:

 

• Undertake regular maintenance of food production plots (orchard, garden and berry plots) ;
• Support community outreach for organizational development (new membership recruitment, volunteer participation, education and training on food production and renewable energy applications;
• Harvesting of cultivated and country plant foods for processing and/or storage;
• Organize public or BCS member field learning events including garden production, orchard production, interpretative botanical trail and basic land & water stewardship;
• Attend Farmers Market with organizational display following food harvesting & event preparation;
• Support development of online (video, webinar) resources for demonstrating green household living & property stewardship;
• Provide shared support (constructing, installing) for various research and demonstration projects in small scale renewable energy (solar, irrigation & food security related to greenhouse, garden, composting, orchard & berry production activities);
• Serve as a resource person to help with BCS member’s community/member eco-enterprise development, and including profiles of new members in the “Eco-Enterprise Directory” plus identification of further training needs to support increased market access and business development;
• Support research on community food & water security and recycling
• Provide assistance with administrative office & organizational support functions;
• Other activities as deemed capable to carry out by mutual agreement.

 

The selected candidate will be expected to:

 

• have a strong interest in regenerative agriculture, horticulture and/or natural resource stewardship;
• conduct safe operation with physical ability to use all field equipment for onsite activities (garden implements, brush cutters, shared-use post hole gas powered auger, rototiller, lawn tractor, quad 4×4
• have access to their own reliable vehicle for work use with remuneration for approved expenses
• be willing to accept on-site basic RV or shared accommodation for work fare exchange (1 day per week) and/or low rental rate.

 

The student will be supervised by the Project Manager, in the following manner:

 

• weekly or bi-weekly job supervision of assigned tasks by agreed workplan
• preparation of a personal career development plan
• weekly review of relevant professional training resources
• limited support for independent study (online or directed research)
• attendance at virtual workshops, and relevant training opportunities subject to available funding
• mid−term and completion of employment review

 

Preference: will be given to candidates who have

• demonstrated skills and experience on the job or farm light construction, and mechanical work to support solar installations, wind-mill and solar water pump assembly, irrigation systems related to small-scale agricultural production
• preferably enrolled in studies within the Peace River region of northern BC or Alberta or other related postsecondary program in BC related to sustainability, agriculture, natural resource stewardship
• familiarity with WEB-site development/updating in WordPress program

 

Hours: 8  weeks duration with possibility of extension based upon performance, 30 hrs/week, occasional evening or weekend functions with time off in lieu
Location: Moberly Lake (north-east BC) and remote office access as per mutually agreed workplan
Earliest Start Date (On-Site): June 15th – latest started date July 1
Wage: $18-$22/hr subject to experience and career interests
Internet: Broad-band WiFi available and included for work and accommodation
Eligibility: Candidates must be no older than 30 years of age and preferably (but not necessarily) returning to full-time studies in fall 2022; must have their own vehicle

Please send cover letter and resume via Email only on or before 14:00 PST June 17th 2021

to Boreal Centre for Conservation Enterprise, via email to: borealcentre@gmail.com

Please put Green Living Coordinator in subject header. Only those candidates selected for interview will be contacted at phone number provided.