Employment Opportunities
JOB POSTING
Garden Support Coordinator (part-time)
Saskatchewan Environmental Society
Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Position Title: Garden Support Coordinator
Starting: May 12, 2025 (16 weeks, part-time, term position)
Compensation: $19.50 per hour (25 hours per week with some flexibility)
The Saskatchewan Environmental Society (SES) is a non-profit, registered charity that has been active in Saskatchewan since 1970. SES’s current action areas include sustainable energy and climate solutions, water protection, resource conservation, biodiversity preservation, and reduction of toxic substances.
SES is seeking an outgoing individual to coordinate and carry out garden support at two native plant gardens SES has helped create in Saskatoon. The Coordinator will actively help weed and water the sites and will also support volunteers and summer students to do the same.
Primary activities include:
- Weeding two native prairie garden sites to eliminate weeds and support native plant development.
- Watering sites as needed (using water on site) to support establishment of native prairie plants.
- Train, supervise, and monitor volunteers and summer students to help with weeding and watering on the sites.
Skills and expertise needed:
The candidate will:
- Have a strong background in native plant identification.
- Have familiarity with local flora and gardening practices.
- Be physically able to weed ground level plants and manage long watering hoses on site.
- Be able to independently travel to both native prairie garden locations, one on the east side of the city, the other on the west side of the city.
- Have an outgoing disposition and be comfortable training, supervising, and monitoring summer students and volunteers.
- Have experience organizing and coordinating volunteers.
- Be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal communications skills.
Occasional weekend or evening work may be required.
We value the contributions that people from equity-seeking groups bring to our organization, leadership, and movement building. We encourage applications from 2SLGBTQIA+ people, Indigenous peoples, people of colour, low-income earners and the underemployed/unemployed, immigrants and refugees, and people with disabilities or another equity-seeking group with which you identify. If you wish to identify as belonging to an equity-seeking group(s), please feel free to indicate so in your cover letter. This position is also open to and suitable for postsecondary students.
Resumes and cover letters should be sent to: allysonb@environmentalsociety.ca by March 31, 2025. Only successful applicants will be contacted.