The McGill Farmers’ Market is hiring!
Interested in helping to organize the 2012-2013 Farmers’ Market and CSA Project? We're looking for passionate and committed members of the McGill community who want to help prepare for next year's market! All backgrounds and levels of involvement are welcome.
Farmers’ Market co-coordinator – Stipend position
Responsibilities:
Ideal Candidate:
CSA co-coordinator – Stipend position
Responsibilities:
Ideal Candidate:
Promotions and marketing coordinator – Stipend position
1. Must be available from April 2012- late spring 2013.
2. Create and distribute CSA materials: pick-up poster, weekly recipes and newsletters, informational handouts.
3. Work with finance coordinator to create a comprehensive and environmentally friendly merchandise campaign.
4. Advertisement for the fall market and the summer-fall CSA project. This includes:
· Design tasks (posters, promotional packages, merchandise etc)
· Outreach to other student groups (first years, list servs, etc)
· Outreach to wider community (businesses, potential vendors, faculty etc)
5. Maintain MFM social media outlets (website, fb, twitter, booking interviews)
6. Attend and assist at CSA pick-up and farmers’ markets.
7. Provide support for general market activities.
Ideal Candidate:
Finance coordinator – Stipend position
Responsibilities:
Ideal Candidate:
Please email your application to mcgillfarmersmarket@gmail.com with subject line “Coordinator Call.” Include your CV, which position you are applying for, and a cover letter stating why you are the ideal candidate for this position. Deadline for applications is March 20th by midnight.
A modest start to the market season on a glistening fall afternoon in downtown Montreal.
On the same sunny day in September, our dear friend Anne-Laure of Domaine le mouton à la 5 pattes explains the difference between the seasonal honey harvests to interested undergrads.
Minda of Anokian Nature shows off her wide variety of artisanal soaps and skin creams that she produces according to First Nations traditions using only herbs, plants, and oils.
Interested in helping organize next year’s Farmers’ Market?
We're looking for community members who want to help prepare for next year's Market! All backgrounds and levels of involvement are welcome.
Two Market co-coordinators - stipend positions
The ideal co-coordinator candidates will:
o Be fluent in written and spoken French and English
o Have an interest in food sustainability and community building
o Have experience working with environmental groups on campus and within the community, or be interested in developing these connections
o Be open to close and equitable collaboration with a co-coordinator, and be enthusiastic to work with a team of students and administrators.
o Be in Montreal for Winter 2010 and Fall 2010 semesters, and be able to maintain communication throughout the summer. At least one coordinator should be in Montreal at all times, with the other preferably returning to Montreal by mid-August.
Responsibilities:
1. Based on existing contacts, form the Market organizing committee, hold an introductory meeting, and attribute responsibilities.
2. Prepare a list of products to be featured at the market, based upon last year’s exit report recommendations, targeted demographics, and the principles of a non-competitive retail environment.
3. Referring to last year’s list of producers, and with additional research, create a database of local producers (within 100 mile radius) as potential Market participants.
4. Invite farmers at the beginning of March in order to allow them time to plan their harvest accordingly and follow-up and confirm participation over the course of the school year and summer.
5. Develop an operating budget to cover the costs, apply for funding, and investigate the possibilities for creating a permanent Farmers’ Market at McGill Coordinating Fund.
6. Secure Three Bares Park location and parking reservations.
7. Work closely with the organizing committee to ensure that promotions, outreach, artisan coordination and workshop coordination is prepared.
8. Attend activities night and advertise to recruit volunteers.
9. Oversee the implementation of the weekly Market during September and October 2010.
10.Hold a community forum to reflect upon the successes and weaknesses of this year’s Market, and building upon the 2009 exit report, assemble a 2010 exit report, outlining the organizational process; the report, to be submitted before SSMU council’s final meeting of the Fall 2011 semester, will provide guidelines and recommendations for next year’s co-coordinators.
11.Secure stipends for the 2011 co-coordinator positions and ensure that they are filled by mid-January 2011.
Promotions and marketing coordinator – volunteer position
Responsibilities:
1. Work closely with the organizing committee
2. Create a comprehensive and environmentally-friendly marketing strategy that targets undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students, staff, administration, and surrounding neighborhood residents.
3. This includes (but is not limited to), poster design and printing, advertising space in campus and community newspapers, booking radio interviews, inclusion in campus planners, listservs, McGill Food and Dining Services first year welcome packages, updating the blog, coordinating business-to-business promotions.
Outreach coordinator – volunteer position
Responsibilities
1. Work closely with the organizing committee
2. Engage with, attend meetings, and invite student groups working on personal, community, and ecological food sustainability initiatives to participate in the Market.
3. Engage with, attend meetings, and invite community groups working on personal, community, and ecological food sustainability initiatives to participate in the Market.
4. From these interactions, develop workshops to be held in coordination with the Market.
Artisan coordinator – volunteer position
Responsibilities
1. Work closely with the organizing committee
2. Invite student artisans and performers to participate in the Market.
3. Invite community artisans and performs to participate in the Market.
4. From these interactions, schedule artisans and entertainment events to be held in coordination with the Market.
Volunteer coordinator - volunteer position
Responsibilities
1. Work closely with the organizing committee
2. Attend Activites Night and advertise to recruit volunteers
3. Oversee volunteer tasks (i.e. set-up and clean-up logistics) during the market.
If interested, please send your CV and cover letter / e-mail to mcgillfarmersmarket@gmail.com. Interviews will be held in early-mid February 2010, and positions will start early-March.
