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Hamilton, On, Ca

Hamilton, On, Ca

Hamilton, On

- Hiring and oversight of 3 permanent staff and 4+ yearly contract/temp positions. Guidance of staff in meeting community needs, N2N core objectives, and Community Food Centres Canada operational standards for programming. - Oversight of $700,000 annual operating budget with Director of Community Food and Family Services, tracking of spending and other operational costs to remain within annual budget.- Purchase and allocation of local produce for all programs with annual $90,000 budget maintaining relationships with 6 sustainable producers/distributors.- Distribution of $8,000 annually to community gardens in the Hamilton Community Garden Networking program and providing consultation, support, communication and networking opportunities to coordinators of 65+ gardens.- Successful private donor stewardship from 2016 to 2020, resulting in a renewed 5 year commitment of $180,000 for food access and skills programming from 2021 to 2025.- Extensive grant writing and reporting experience and maintaining relationships with funders and granting foundations including City of Hamilton City Enrichment Fund, TD Friends of the Environment Fund, Hamilton Community Foundation and Community Food Centres Canada.- Development, piloting and implementation of programs that meet community needs and strengths. Timely and in-depth evaluation and reporting.- Maintain ongoing partnerships with City of Hamilton Healthy and Safe Communities and Public Health departments.

Hamilton, Ontario

- Oversaw the spending of $70,000 from 5 funders to build the Hamilton Community Food Centre patio and community garden spaces in 2017.- Headed the design and building new community garden space meeting Rolston community design requests. - Grant writing and reporting to funders including TD Friends of the Environment Foundation and Public Health (Healthy Kids Community Challenge).- Program statistics tracking and evaluation, ensuring program targets are met and action is taken on community feedback.- Hamilton Community Garden Networking program oversight including providing consultation, support, communication and networking opportunities to garden coordinators as well as and supplying $8000 in tools and resources.- Design programming for and run weekly gardening and cooking activities for children in the After School Program focusing on skills building and increased awareness of food justice issues.- Develop and lead team of 8 volunteers to provide a weekly low-cost produce market, communicating with program participants to ensure that fresh, culturally appropriate produce is available.- Maintain and manage purchasing relationships with local, sustainable food producers and distributors.- Conduct monthly inspections of work place and attend quarterly meetings of Joint Health and Safety Committee as worker representative.

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

- Research and development of content for course Issues in Urban Agriculture with OpenEd department staff including establishing learning objectives, writing unit content, designing self-assessments and graded assessments. Update course content prior to each semester.- Course instruction including weekly grading, announcements, office hours, and responding to student chat and emails.- Course covers the evolution of urban agriculture, it's place in regional and global food production and in a rural-urban continuum. The challenges and opportunities of urban agriculture are explored as are the food security, environmental sustainability, and food justice motivations for growing food in cities.

Hamilton, Ontario

- Management of 28 site coordinators and core volunteers, assisting the coordinators in direction of over 200 volunteer gardeners; advising coordinators on when and how to plant, seed, harvest, post-harvest handle and deliver produce and provide advice on weed identification, irrigation technique, and pest and disease management.- Hiring, training and oversight of 7 summer horticultural interns.- Crop planning, planting, harvest and delivery of over 43,000 pounds of fresh vegetables and fruits to over 10 food banks and meal programs throughout Hamilton.- Schedule, coordinate and lead volunteer team-building days including large groups from TELUS and Bank of Montreal and smaller office place and youth groups.- Lead weekly school group visits.- Intensive relay crop planning for each of the 14 gardens.- Coordinate the greenhouse seeding schedule with greenhouse grower to start 55,000 transplants each year and organise the delivery of thousands of transplants to 14 garden sites.- Report monthly to Hamilton Victory Gardens board of directors.- Head volunteer recruitment and retention through community fairs, volunteer information sessions and volunteer appreciation initiatives including a fall volunteer dinner.- Developed health and safety policy and procedures for the garden as well as accident and incident reporting forms.- Planning and construction of 3 new garden sites.

Toronto, Ontario

- Led 6 staff in the production of over 60,000 transplants for Everdale’s 3 farm sites as well as seeding, irrigation, and maintenance of greenhouse plants.- Allocation of produce for 4 weekly markets and 3 Community-Supported Agriculture pick-ups totalling over 300 members.- Workflow design for Black Creek Community Farm wash station and walk-in cooler ensuring efficiency of post-harvest handling, storage and allocation of produce. - Accurate and detailed record keeping of field planting and seeding, and greenhouse planting and seeding ensuring adherence to schedules.- Weekly marketing and customer service at Evergreen Brickworks Farmers' Market, The Stop's Wychwood Barns Farmers' Market and The Junction Farmers' Market.- Maintenance, harvesting and post-harvest handling of organic vegetables.- Harvest projection and harvest allocation based on historical market sales.- Small-scale farming workshop facilitation.- Oversight and direction to volunteer groups and school groups.- Participated in monthly anti-oppression and community engagement training to promote the safe and equitable contribution of all staff and community members at the farm.

- Facilitating a small-scale farming workshop- Marketing and customer service at the Evergreen Brickworks Farmers' Market- Crop planning, seeding, planting, irrigation, maintenance, harvesting and post harvest handling of mixed organic vegetables- Livestock care and processing.

Toronto, Ontario

- Training new customer care representatives on Tarion Statutory New Home Warranty and conducting Pre-Delivery Inspections- Conduct Pre-Delivery Inspections with Homeowner- Introduce Homeowner to Statutory New Home Warranty- Assist with suite closings- Customer Care website development and design, writing of interior finishes manual.

Kingston, Ontario

Conduct gel electrophoresis; Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis; Polymerase Chain Reaction analysis of soil microbial samples; experiment preparation.