AddressUrban Horticulturalist
At STREAT you will be part of a team of horticulturalists working across farm and garden sites as part of STREAT's green job pathways. The Green Job Pathways program provides training and employment pathways for marginalised young people into horticulture.
Daily tasks include garden maintenance, plant propagation, indoor plant maintenance and urban farming.
Employer: STREAT
Work Type: 12-months (with potential for ongoing)
Sector: Not-for-profit
Benefits: STREAT offers salary packaging to our employees and staff discounts on food and beverages.
Location: STREAT (Collingwood) with the potential to travel to sites across inner-north Melbourne to work on partner organisations for the Green Job Pathways program (eg. Collingwood Children’s Farm)
Brief company overview
STREAT is a leading food system social enterprise and youth organisation based in inner Melbourne. For the past decade, we have provided holistic support, training and employment pathways in hospitality to over 500 vulnerable young Victorians. Our Youth Program sits alongside a portfolio of businesses (including 8 cafes, a coffee roastery, pastry bakery, and a catering/events business, garden maintenance and urban farming).
Our commitment to diversity
STREAT value diversity and inclusion. We promote an equal opportunity workplace that actively seeks to include, welcome and value unique contributions.
Job Requirements
In 2021, STREAT, CERES and Collingwood Children’s Farm set up the Green Job Pathways project. This project provides training and employment pathways into horticulture for marginalised young people, building upon STREAT’s highly effective hospitality training program. The program provides wrap-around support for young people from our team of allied health professionals, as well as invaluable work experience in real work teams.
Find out more about the program here: https://www.streat.com.au/youth-programs
We currently have horticulture staff members (Green Team Crew Members) located at Collingwood Children’s Farm and STREAT, doing work that provides real, practical work experience for young people.
The role is varied and dynamic, including (but not limited to) the below responsibilities:
- Taking part in work experience shifts with young people as part of the regular roster.
- Working with the Youth Programs team to deliver a horticulture work experience for STREAT's trainees.
- Work with our partner organisations to achieve urban farm gardening and farming maintenance duties across all sites.
- Building on the knowledge and skills at each site with your horticulture experience to provide a kind and inclusive work site.
Build and maintain relationships with our partner sites
A key part of the project is to work closely with our partners. We rely on their space to be able to provide work experience to young people in our programs, and therefore need to make sure we’re working in lock step together. Being a team member and also a key communication member with both STREAT and partner site.
Other duties as required
As a continually evolving program, you will have other duties and responsibilities relating to the horticulture program. This also means there may be other opportunities for you to be involved more broadly in aspects of the work that we’re doing at STREAT.
What you’ll bring to the role
A warm, open-minded, organised person, we’re keen to find someone who will fit in easily with a vibrant and kind team at STREAT! We’re looking for the below skills for the role:
- A proven ability to build positive, productive and constructive relationships with external organisations.
- Highly professional, with the ability to maintain strong professional boundaries.
- The ability to stay organised with multiple priorities and relationships, and to be proactive in finding solutions.
- The ability to work independently and as a team, and to set your own priorities within the project.
- The drive for continuous improvement, looking to make changes and improvements where possible in all aspects of the role.
- Demonstrated knowledge of urban agriculture practices, urban horticulture, and indoor plant care.
- Formal qualifications or relevant experience in urban farming, horticulture and/or agriculture i.e. Cert 3, Cert 4, Diploma, etc.
- Demonstrated ability with horticultural tools and maintenance equipment.
- Demonstrated abilities with water management, troubleshooting and repair of irrigation systems, and basic landscape equipment repair.
- Experience with permaculture, regenerative farming techniques and urban agriculture
- Commitment to STREAT’s mission and core values, particularly in supporting trainees and working with a diverse range of people.
- Excellent ethical standards and good personal boundaries.
Working with children check or be willing to obtain.
For more details please email HR : ***@streat.com.au
