City Green
Careers & Internships
Open Positions
Harvest and Market Assistant (Full-Time)
Position Description:
Harvest and Market Assistants serve as seasonal staff for our farming, Veggie Mobile, and CSA operations. They support every aspect of getting fresh produce to people’s tables, from seeding to harvesting to packing to selling. The Harvest and Market Assistant will work with City Green’s farm team to maintain crop beds and fields as well as harvest, process, and pack vegetables in preparation for City Green’s Veggie Mobile and CSA programs. Harvest and Market Assistants will set up City Green’s farm stand and Veggie Mobile markets, complete customer transactions while providing excellent customer service and information about the fruits and vegetables for sale, and break down the farm stand at the end of each market. Additionally, Harvest and Market Assistants will record transactional data, account for market inventory, engage customers at the market, and more.
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Shift Availability Needed
M: 8 AM - 4PM
T: 8 AM - 4PM | 1 PM - 7 PM
W: 8 AM - 1 PM | 1 PM - 7 PM
TH: 8 AM - 4PM
F: 8 AM - 3 PM​
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College Internship (Fall)
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 July/August 2025 for a September 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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