Full details are on the front page of Organiclea's website - see *outreach worker post* on front page of www.organiclea.org.uk Below you have a brief taster summary:

Details

• Commitment to making this vital outreach aspect of our work financially viable through clear enterprise planning and innovative income generation.
• Commitment to the empowering role that food growing contributes to community life and resilience, especially in diverse urban communities.
• Experience of developing and managing community gardening and education projects: Fundraising and finances, aswell as the organic horticulture!
• Commitment to cooperative principles and working within a cooperative goverance structure.  

This project's income is a mix of grant funding and contract fees. After growing steadily over the last few years, our outreach project is now at a key stage in its development and we are seeking to recruit someone to lead on the enterprise development aspect of our work at this crucial time. We are looking for a strategically minded community sector worker who, in addition to delivering small-scale food growing projects, will expand our outreach enterprise and increase its financial sustainability; establishing sound business practices and developing new partnerships. You will be joining a project team of 2 other food growing outreach workers, one with additional responsibility for skill development, training & volunteering, the other a trained garden design & support sessional worker.

We need someone who is committed to turning a small outreach enterprise into a working, financially viable model and who is passionate about the empowering role that food growing contributes to community life and resilience. Your fellow workers will be the growers, organisers, mechanics and citizens who form the workers’ cooperative and the ‘Organiclea family’.

FINER POST DETAILS: Initially 14 hours/2 days per week based on £20,930 pro rata + variable hours sessional work. The post holder will be actively involved in developing increased work opportunities. We are committed to making this a fixed 3 days/week post and will be working hard as a team to achieve this. We are recruiting for a one year post. Extension is dependent on project financing and income generated.

Location: Office base at Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London E17 9AH + onsite work in Waltham Forest and neighbouring boroughs.

Responsible to: Organiclea workers’ cooperative Each appointment is subject to a 3 month probation period Organiclea is a workers’ cooperative based in Waltham Forest, London. We produce food and plants on a 12 acre site at the edge of Epping Forest to distribute through several outlets in our vibrant and diverse Northeast London community and offer various training and volunteering opportunities.

Our thanks go to the Citybridge Trust who have supported our outreach and training work with funds for the above.

Organiclea Community Growers 'Food growing on London's edge' www.organiclea.org.uk 07786 657713

(Clare's mobile) 020 8524 4994 (Hawkwood Plant Nursery site)

GROWING SITE: Hawkwood Plant Nursery, Chingford E4 7UH [Open workdays: Tuesdays, Thursday afternoons, Fridays and last Sunday of the month.] Support local food production, get skilled and receive food growing advice, training and project support.

DISTRIBUTION HUB: Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe Street. E17 9AH tel: 020 8558 6880 Join our mid-week box scheme & visit our Saturday market stall here, 10-3