Patch Manager: Outdoor Grower & Community Builder

ROOTS Allotments; Worthing; Hybride; GBP 10 000 - 12 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

ROOTS Allotments in Worthing is seeking a Patch Manager to run the Patching Meadows site. You will be outdoors most days, guiding new members, teaching growing skills and helping the community enjoy a thriving allotment space.

Two days a week, 16 hours, paid at the real Living Wage (£13.45/hour). You will shift kit by car, tend to plots, and help keep the site welcoming and productive for members and visitors.

Qualifications

• You grow, and have done for a few seasons.
• You can teach it without making anyone feel stupid.
• You like people and represent Roots to members.
• A mower, a strimmer, and a wheelbarrow with a flat tyre.

Responsabilités

• Teaching people to grow, including those who expect to fail, and guiding them to successful harvests.
• Getting new members started on their patch, then checking their progress.
• Running sowing days, seed swaps, and activities that make a growing year feel active.
• Finding local growers, beekeepers, ecologists, teachers, artists nearby who could contribute to the site.
• Looking after flagship patches and school donations so there is always something worth showing.
• Keeping the site tidy and welcoming: mowing, pruning, watering, edging.
• Showing people round who are thinking of joining.
• Cleaning the toilets to keep the site hygienic.

Connaissances

Outdoor work

Teaching

People skills

Driving licence

Car

Description du poste

ROOTS Allotments in Worthing is seeking a Patch Manager to run the Patching Meadows site. You will be outdoors most days, guiding new members, teaching growing skills and helping the community enjoy a thriving allotment space.

Two days a week, 16 hours, paid at the real Living Wage (£13.45/hour). You will shift kit by car, tend to plots, and help keep the site welcoming and productive for members and visitors.