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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Title:            </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Gardener-in-Residence Lead Educator</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Reports To:   </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Farm to School Director</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Location: </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Variable</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Position Type: </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Full time / Non-exempt </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Wage:    </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">$20-$21/hour</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Benefits: </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">30 days paid time off plus 8 paid holidays annually; flexible schedule; professional development opportunities; cell phone reimbursement; 4.5 day work week </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Start Date: </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold\">   </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Late August 2026</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About Rooted</span></p>\n<p>Rooted, formed in 2020, grows a community-led, sustainable food system through urban agriculture education, food production, and land access so that people can grow and thrive in healthy, equitable, and sustainable neighborhoods. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, rooted connects communities across the north and south sides through its three core sites - Troy Farm, the Madison School Farm, and the Badger Rock Neighborhood Center &amp; Urban Farm - as well as a network of community and school gardens.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About the Gardener-in-Residence Program</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Rooted’s Gardener-in-Residence (GiR) program provides engaging, hands-in-the-dirt garden education in partnership with participating Madison Metropolitan School District schools. All school gardens are unique, but our mission at each site is the same: To help students experience the joy of growing and eating fresh food while building agricultural knowledge and cultivating environmental stewardship. Rooted school garden educators collaborate with school administration, staff, students and families to ensure the school garden serves as a thriving teaching resource for the school community.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">General Statement of Duties and Responsibilities</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The GiR Lead Educator will be responsible for providing garden-based programming at three schools, along with leading MSCR (Madison School &amp; Community Recreation) afterschool garden and cooking clubs. This position will also be responsible for assisting in the development and management of the Gardener-in-Residence program, which includes multiple school garden sites and a small team of Rooted garden educators. The GiR Lead Educator will help to develop resources and curriculum for the GiR program, lead and/ or assist with trainings, and as their schedule allows, attend monthly check-in meetings at schools to ensure high-quality garden programming at all of our school garden sites. </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Specific Duties and Responsibilities</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Provides garden-based educational programming at three schools; oversees and coordinates students’ hands-on experiences in the garden (planting, tending, harvesting and cooking).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Provides afterschool garden and cooking clubs through MSCR one to two days per week during fall and spring, three to four days per week in winter months.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Available to fill in for/ assist other garden educators, schedule permitting. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Builds relationships and coordinates with school communities.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Attends monthly check-in meetings with Rooted school garden educators, program director, and school liaisons as schedule allows.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Help develop resources and curriculum for the Gardener-in-Residence program, primarily during the winter months. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Coordinates with Farm to School Director to recruit, hire, train and supervise Rooted school garden educators.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Support Rooted’s Farm to School and urban agriculture lessons as needed; activities could include teaching lessons at elementary schools, helping with taste tests, and assisting with surveys and data collection.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Coordinates with other Rooted programs to ensure consistency and collaboration across the organization.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Assist with field trip coordination to Rooted youth garden sites as needed. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Attend organization and program team staff meetings; assist with Rooted events as needed.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Attend school-based community events.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Other tasks as assigned.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">At least two years of experience facilitating garden/farm-based education or hands-on environmental education programs for a diverse population of young people.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience training and supervising staff. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience working with non-profit organizations is desirable.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Strong experience working with productive, proactive teams.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Proficient use of smartphones, Microsoft Office software, email, and other technology.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ability to interact in a professional, courteous, and confidential manner with others and to function as an ambassador of the organization in a wide variety of venues and circumstances.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ability to provide support and leadership while working with groups of people on projects.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience working with diverse groups of people in community settings, with cultural competence.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Strong organizational and communication skills and a demonstrated ability to follow through on commitments, responsibilities, and tasks.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Flexibility and willingness to grow in response to needs or changes in the field.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ability to lift, kneel, and do physical work.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ability to commit to and promote Rooted’s mission, goals, and priorities.</span><br></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Additional Information/Requirements:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Must have access to reliable transportation and provide a copy of a valid driver’s license.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Willingness and ability to work some weekend and evening hours as needed.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ability to pass a standard background check.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Equal Opportunity Employer</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Rooted is an equal opportunity employer. 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