NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DO NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS LISTED BELOW
PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 28 MAY 2025
Job description
Urban food gardens and eco-education to support healthier and more sustainable habits for urban dwellers. By helping urban dwellers to grow their food through training/ workshops and support, the programme is supporting a healthier, happier and more sustainable way of life for everyone. This position will challenge your coordination, social, gardening and community development skills when you work on bringing their food gardens to schools, that are used for eco-education and to provide vegetables for school meals. In addition, it will enhance marketing through engagement with informal markets within communities (hawkers).
.Job Responsibilities
- Integrating the urban garden into the training kitchen, informal traders, school education and food system;
- Facilitate eco-education workshops/classes for participants, including schools, to increase knowledge, interest, and enthusiasm about gardening, fresh food, and nutrition;
- Facilitate improved systems and suggestions to optimize the produce and use of the urban garden. For example, sales of excess vegetables to parents, teachers, and the community instead of letting them go to waste, new meal suggestions with more vegetables but in line with local customs, and ways to preserve vegetables and herbs for future use (instead of wasting them);
- Research into eco-education, nutrition, local customs, etc., to contribute to the above-mentioned tasks; and
- Working in the garden and nursery, assisting with school workshops and sorting and cleaning the workspaces.
What will you gain from this Internship?
- Hands-on organic gardening experience in a multitude of different garden situations (hydroponic and traditional);
- Freedom to experiment in the office garden and nursery with interesting food plants and various propagation methods;
- Free participation in our Organic Food Growing courses; and
- Experience in working with children of differing abilities and from a range of backgrounds.
Requirements:
* Be between the ages of 18 and 34;
* Have never had any formal employment;
* Must have a Matric;
* Have an interest in urban agriculture, culinary arts, being outside, and
community-building;
* Be proactive and an independent worker with an interest in social enterprise
and business development.
* Love getting their hands dirty and working with children and people with
different backgrounds.
* Be a South African Citizen;
* Are not currently in full-time studies and can attend this internship full-time;
* Add a cover letter stating why you want to do the internship and specify which
city/town you are applying for; and
* We will also require a completed application form, a certified copy of your ID no
older than 3 months, and a certified copy of your highest qualification.
If you seriously want to broaden your world and want to contribute to the social landscape of our society, then this internship is for you.
The start date of the internship is the 1st of July 2025, and the end date is the 30th of June 2026.
Note: You must be willing to be subjected to a credit and criminal check or any industry-specific check required for your job role.
Email your CV and cover letter, clearly stating which position you are applying for and which area you are applying for (i.e., Johannesburg, Pretoria, Musina – it states which area the position is for in the job advert) and all other requirements listed above, to info@outreachfoundation.co.za. DO NOT SEND VIA FACEBOOK OR ANY OTHER WAY.