City Green
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Open Positions
Check back in early Spring 2025 for new openings!
Lead Garden Educator
Position Description:
City Green is hiring full-time Lead Garden Educators for the 2025 programmatic season, March through November. The Lead Garden Educator position is an opportunity to lead and teach hands-on, garden-based lessons for preschool and elementary-aged children, while planting and maintaining youth gardens in an urban setting. Lead Educators host programs at City Green’s educational gardens in Clifton and Paterson, as well as off-site at partner schools and organizations across Northern NJ with the support of interns and seasonal assistant educators. For the summer season, this includes providing mentorship & youth development programming for the “Growing Strong” high school intern program. We are looking for enthusiastic, responsible educators who have experience leading programming for young children and some experience growing gardens.
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Assistant Garden Educator
Position Description:
City Green is hiring part time Assistant Garden Educators for the 2025 programmatic season, March through November. The Assistant Garden Educators support a Lead Garden Educator in teaching garden-based lessons for preschool and elementary-aged children, and plant/maintain youth gardens in an urban setting.. Assistant Educators will support youth programs at City Green’s educational gardens in Clifton and Paterson, as well as off-site at partner school gardens across Northern NJ. We are looking for enthusiastic, aspiring educators who have a love of the outdoors and working with youth.
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Community Outreach Coordinator
Position Description:
The Community Outreach Coordinator at City Green will maintain the organization’s social media accounts, electronic communications, and support in-person community building and outreach. The Community Outreach Coordinator is positioned within the Department of Advocacy and Community Engagement. This department’s main activities include community outreach, communications, social media, coalition building, content creation, graphic design, volunteer coordination, event planning and hosting events, advocacy, and fundraising. The ideal candidate has experience with both social media and traditional in-person outreach strategies, is familiar with communities in Paterson, Clifton, and/or Passaic, has a strong desire to work in support of local agriculture, fresh food access, community gardening, and/or outdoor education.
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Due to the high level of responses, the application has been closed.
College Internship (Summer)
Position Description:
City Green’s Urban Agriculture College Internship Program will provide participants with a wide variety of hands-on work, educational experiences and independently-led projects to support City Green’s mission of creating and supporting urban farms, community gardens, school gardens and green spaces while addressing public health concerns, nutrition inequality and environmental stewardship.
The goal of the Urban Agriculture (UA) Internship is to provide a dynamic opportunity to aspiring people of varied educational fields who believe that the urban agriculture and community food systems can create environmental justice, food security, and enhance communal outdoor experiences for residents of Northern New Jersey. We are a mission-driven team and the UA Intern’s role and responsibilities will be integrated within our existing programmatic structure to implement engaging and educational programs and deepen our reach into the community.
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Note: Applications for this position will start being reviewed in March 2025 for a potential May/June start date
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Hiring at City Green
Diversity is a core value of City Green. We believe the power of diversity enriches all of us by exposing us to a range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions. City Green is committed to working to build and sustain an equitable and inclusive work environment where diversity is celebrated and valued. We believe diversity benefits and enriches the development of all of our staff, partners, supporters, and community.
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