Mobile Market Assistant
Part Time Seasonal Position, Early July-Mid November 2022
About Common Ground:
Common Ground is a center for environmental learning in New Haven, Connecticut. Farm meets forest meets city on Common Ground’s 20 acre campus at the base of West Rock Ridge. The site abuts the 1800 acre West Rock State Park, sharing hiking trails, wildlife, and diverse natural habitats with the surrounding forests. Common Ground’s urban farm produces sustainably grown food for programs and our community and is home to our friendly farm animals. Common Ground’s Charter High School uses the site as an organizing principle of its curriculum which is guided by an ecological framework highlighting the connection and interdependence of all living and non-living things. Each year, more than 10,000 community members participate in festivals, field trips, after-school programs, and other educational opportunities on site. For more information visit www.commongroundct.org.
Job Description:
Common Ground is accepting applications for a Mobile Market Assistant to support the 2022 Season of our Mobile Farm Stand. The Mobile Market is a farmstand on wheels that brings fresh produce from Connecticut farms directly to New Haven neighborhoods, along with cooking demonstrations and tastings of local, fresh fruits and vegetables. From the beginning of July – mid November, the Mobile Market visits areas throughout New Haven that face food insecurity and don’t have access to farmers markets or fresh fruits and vegetables at local stores. Common Ground provides the Mobile Market with vegetables and potentially, student workers from our Green Jobs Corps Program, a youth employment and leadership development program that links students with meaningful, paid work. This season the Market is in partnership with City Seed, Elm City Communities, New Haven Public Library, Alder Honda Smith, and Cornell Scott Hill Health Centers.
The Mobile Market Assistant’s work will include responsibility for:
- Day of: Support the Market Manager in driving the Mobile Market truck to the scheduled sites, setting up tables, displaying produce and interacting with customers to promote healthful eating, explain SNAP, WIC and FMNP benefits, selling produce, and breaking down the market.
- Staff Supervision: Co-supervise our summer youth apprentices in market activities.
- Pick up produce for the stand at local farms.
Qualifications
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Confidence with numbers
- Retail sales experience
- A valid drivers’ license with a clean driving record
- Knowledge of seasonal produce
- Ability to problem solve, work independently and go with the flow.
- Experience with youth is helpful
- Moderate heavy lifting is required during setup + breakdown of market sites.
- Spanish Speaking is a plus (one stop is predominantly Spanish speaking)
- Uphold COVID safety procedures and precautions to keep ourselves and community safe
Work Schedule and Compensation
- This is a seasonal part-time position, working 15-20 hours a week.
- The schedule is still to be confirmed, but stops often run Tuesday-Friday usually midmorning or in the late afternoon on a regular schedule. The anticipated start time is early July and ending in mid November.
- The position ends November 18th. Compensation is $17/hour.
- Applicants will be notified if there are any changes to the program.
To Apply
Please send resume and cover letter to kae.vargas@nhep.com
Please specify the job you are applying for in the subject line of your email.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Common Ground is particularly eager for candidates who can help us to fulfill our commitment to building a racially and culturally diverse faculty and staff. Common Ground has a commitment to examining the intersection of social, environmental, and food justice issues; how systems of oppression, including white privilege, impact the organization’s work; and how resistance to those systems can offer windows into a more sustainable society.
Common Ground is committed to the recruitment and retention of staff that is reflective of the communities we work with. We strongly encourage applicants from people of color, immigrants, women, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ community, people whose native language is something other than English, and other underrepresented and historically marginalized groups.
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