Garden Coordinator, Family Student Housing, Edible Campus Program

Position Description 

The Edible Campus Program manages several neighborhood-based community gardens in Isla Vista and on campus. We are currently looking for a Garden Coordinator for Family Student Housing 's Storke Family Student Housing Garden. Our gardens bring together many different multi-generational communities in Isla Vista and on campus through the sharing of food and the connection to the land. Ideally we would love to have a student who is bilingual or multilingual, so please share that in your cover letter if applicable. There are at least 8 different languages spoken at Family Student Housing.

This internship is 10-12 hours a week and 8-10 of those hours every week at the gardens taking care of the garden, planting, weeding, watering, building beds, working with volunteers, sweeping and litter pickup, organizing the tool shed, and in general helping with day to day upkeep of this community garden. This intern will work closely with the neighbors, garden leadership, volunteers, etc. The garden intern will also be responsible for scheduling garden leadership meetings and keeping attendance at volunteer days and events and typing in those contacts weekly into our volunteer tracking spreadsheet.

The student will be expected to manage volunteer days on most weekends. These are usually on Saturdays in the late morning and sometimes on Sundays as well.

Edible Campus Program supports multiple gardens including Greenhouse and Garden Project, Family Student Housing Gardens, Methodist Community Garden, and IV Community Center Garden. You can see a map of garden locations here: http://basicneeds.ucsb.edu/gardens

The student selected will meet with a professional staff mentor at a minimum once a week and will also have the opportunity to have additional mentorship time as needed throughout the week. In addition to these training opportunities, the student will be collaborating frequently with the other gardens and farms in Isla Vista and at UCSB.

Some additional minimum requirements include that the student must be a currently enrolled UCSB student. Students applying for this position must also be willing to work on some weekends to help organize volunteer days. Students must be able to work in person in Summer 2024. Ideally we would like someone that could work through June 2025 (for a year). We are also seeking a student that is likely to be eligible for work study during the next academic year. If you are unsure if you are eligible for work study, please visit: https://www.finaid.ucsb.edu/federal-work-study-program/   Please note in your cover letter if you are eligible for work study.