Assistant – TreeKeepers
Organization: Environmental Youth Alliance http://www.eya.ca
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Date posted: January 16, 2015
Closing date: February 1, 2015
Salary: $17/hr
Job type: Contract, 30 hours/week, 32 weeks
Start Date: Feb 16, 2015
TreeKeepers is a nonprofit program helping Vancouver residents and
businesses grow the urban forest. The Program Assistant will support
our small team in all aspects of tree distribution and maintenance,
event planning, and database management.
Web: http://www.treekeepers.ca; http://www.eya.ca; http://www.treecitycanada.ca
The Position
Working with the program co-directors, the successful candidate’s main
responsibility will be to assist in the management of our tree sales
database, the implementation of our tree sales campaigns and ongoing
maintenance of the trees at our central works yard.
Responsibilities
• Manage the TreeKeepers sales and volunteer and databases
• Assist with the community tree distributions and public outreach events
• Provide care (watering, weeding, pruning) for the stored trees at
our field site near the Olympic Village
• Assist in the marketing and communications of the TreeKeepers Program
• Delivery of tree education for the public
Qualifications
• Experience working with spreadsheets and/or database software programs
• Demonstrated high level of self-motivation, responsibility and organization
• Experience working with a diversity of people
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Base knowledge of horticulture
• Genuine passion for the natural world
Assets
• Arboriculture experience
• Database management experience
• Driver’s license (and access to a vehicle
More Info
The TreeKeepers program was launched in late 2012 as one of the key
goals of Vancouver’s Greenest City campaign. It is a partnership
managed by Tree City and the Environmental Youth Alliance working with
the City of Vancouver’s Park Board on the Greenest City 2020 Action
Plan. This ambitious roadmap to a healthy, inclusive, prosperous and
resilient future calls for the planting of 150,000 new trees. That’s a
big target for a developed city where land use is in perennial
contention, so public participation is vital. The TreeKeepers program
was created to encourage people and businesses to plant more trees on
private property while raising appreciation and knowledge of the value
of the urban forest. Visit the websites: http://www.treekeepers.ca
http://www.eya.ca, http://www.treecitycanada.ca.
To Apply
Please email your resume and cover letter to Hartley Rosen, Executive
Director of the Environmental Youth Alliance ( Hartley@eya.ca ) with
“Program Assistant” in the subject line. When submitting your
application please send documents together in one pdf
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. No
phone calls please.
