Enabling people and communities to lead healthier and happier lives by connecting them to nature and each other

VACANCY: HEAD OF GROWING & GARDENING – SOCIAL, COMMERCIAL, EDUCATIONAL & THERAPEUTIC

15 November 2023
Harvesting Peppers at Hope Farm Community Garden

WE ARE RECRUITING A NEW, F/T HEAD OF GROWING & GARDENING – SOCIAL, COMMERCIAL, EDUCATIONAL & THERAPEUTIC

Salary: £35,000 per annum – OTE £50,000

Location: Hope Farm Community Garden, Hawkhurst

In 2024, we will launch our new delivery model “GCSE: Growing, Cooking, Social & Skills and Environment”, enabling us to meet the ever-increasing demand for our provision, helping us increase our impact on local challenges, by providing nature-based activities to address rural isolation and loneliness, food insecurity and unhealthy diets, improving mental & physical health, and offering opportunities for skills and employability across Growing, Cooking, and the Environment. The “Growing” element will be fundamental to our success and the role will work closely with three new category leads for Cooking, Social & Skills and Environment.

This exciting position would suit an applicant who believes in the power of Growing, Cooking and Nature to improve wellbeing and who has the drive and desire to create a legacy space.

We are looking for an innovative and highly motivated individual, a self-starter who will grasp this unique opportunity and who will work closely alongside management team and Board of Trustees to devise, launch, and deliver an integrated suite of programmes and activities aimed at engaging and supporting a diverse range of beneficiaries and organisations as well as supporting new income channels and chargeable activities to sustain the charity longer-term.

TO APPLY:

Read the full Job Description: Head of Growing & Gardening – Social, Commercial, Educational and Therapeutic

To apply for this position please send a current CV to Mandy Doran, Trustee at contact@hohcharity.co.uk with a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role.

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