Job description
Material Institute is a registered charity working with children, young people and families in communities across Lutruwita/Tasmania. Our flagship program, 24 Carrot Gardens, supports kitchen gardens across 24 schools statewide, alongside a growing range of community programs and social enterprises.
Our Bridgewater headquarters is the productive heart of that work, housing a working market garden, nursery and orchard. Our purpose-designed learning facilities weave connection to nature and seasonality into workshops. As a multi-purpose site, productivity and abundance are held alongside considered landscape design, allowing the experience of students and community members to be shaped by the environment.
We're looking for a skilled, hands-on horticulturist to join our small team and take ownership of the growing and maintenance work that keeps us thriving. Your work directly supports our food education programs and allows programming team members to focus on community-facing work with students and families.
About the Role
You'll perform a broad range of horticulture activities, primarily between our Bridgewater and Gagebrook sites, including:
1. Support the Market Garden Lead in seasonal planting, harvesting and crop management activities.
2. Follow established nursery production procedures, including propagation, stock maintenance and seedling distribution.
3. Perform seasonal and response-based pest and disease management activities.
4. Operate, maintain and repair automated irrigation systems.
5. Perform general site maintenance activities at both the Bridgewater and
6. Gagebrook sites, including mowing, brushcutting and weeding.
7. Contribute to specific horticultural and organisational projects, such as landscaping projects or major organisational events.
As required, support the delivery of horticulture workshops and hosting student and community groups.
About You
* Holds a Certificate III in Horticulture and is established in their career, comfortable working autonomously across a diverse range of horticultural tasks.
* Physically capable for the work, including manual handling, operating machinery and working outdoors across multiple sites in varied conditions.
* Brings craft and care to their work. Notices what needs doing, takes pride in well-maintained spaces, and approaches food production and growing systems with curiosity.
* Familiarity with organic production or permaculture principles would be an advantage.
* Experience with automated irrigation systems, or the ability to learn, would be an advantage.
* Holds a current driver's licence and a National Police Check and Working with Vulnerable People Check, or is able to obtain these prior to commencing.
To Apply Submit your application via the \"Apply Now\" button. For further information, contact using the subject line: Horticulturist enquiry via EthicalJobs. We are a child-safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people we work with.