Responsibilities
Each week during the season, the CSA team prepares 350 grocery bags of produce for pickup. The CSA manager deals directly and extensively with employees, customers, and suppliers.
- This person is responsible for motivating, encouraging, training, double-checking, scheduling, disciplining, firing or promoting their fellow team members.
- This person is also responsible for all the communication with CSA members which includes sending weekly newsletters, rescheduling missed pickups, replacing bad items, accommodating special needs, etc.
- This person will also be ordering & picking up supplies from other local growers of peaches, corn, and cherries.
Schedule & Wage
The starting wage is $18.00 per hour.
Field work (primarily weeding) starts in May with a 25 hour work week. Monday through Friday from 7am to 12pm. Harvesting, packing, and distributing to members starts the first week of July until the last week of August or first week of September. This will increase to a 30 hour week week. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 7am to 12pm (Wednesdays off), plus the customer pickup times on Tuesday 4-8pm and Saturday 8-12pm. Additionally, there will be 2-4 hours of office work that can be done remotely.
Qualifications
No experience or education necessary. Extensive training will be provided. Several meetings will take place in April before the season begins. This person will also meet regularly with the farm executive team throughout the season.
