Employment Type: Full-Time, Salary
Employment Status: Exempt
Apply By: May 16, 2024
Start Date: June 1, 2024
Reports to: Planting Director
Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday
Salary: $43,000 - $50,000(Commensurate with Experience)
Benefits: Eligible after 90-Day Probationary Period - PTO, Paid Holidays including your Birthday, Subsidized Medical and Dental insurance, Ancillary Insurance (Vision, Accident, Critical Illness), Professional Development opportunities, 403(b) Retirement Savings with match starting at anniversary, and Partial Work apparel

• Regularly work with diverse communities and individuals in both professional and outdoor field setting to achieve program goals.
• Manage and coordinate planting and maintenance projects in order to meet annual goals (averaging 4,000 new trees each year, no more than 3% net loss of existing trees).
• Supervise, train, evaluate, motivate, and instruct NeighborWoods staff and volunteers.
• Develop relationships with neighborhoods, city departments, and city councils to plan and complete community projects.
• Develop and manage program budget.
• Manage grant and contract requirements.
• Ensure the program adheres to field related best practices.
• Manage the selection and purchase of trees for all projects.
• Manage the logistics for tree orders and deliveries (includes unloading trucks and organizing storage of trees at Trees Atlanta facilities and planting sites).
• Teach tree planting and care instructions through live site demonstrations and scheduled classes to staff and volunteers.
• Update tree inventory data and provide reports for the Data and Logistics Manager.
• Additional tasks as needed to fulfill projects completion and program goals.

Requirements

• Valid driver’s license with a clean driving record.
• PREFERRED: Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture, Urban Forestry, Horticulture, or an environmentally related degree.
• Extensive knowledge of plants, trees, and forests.
• Experience with volunteer coordination.
• A proven growth and program improvement mindset.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office and working knowledge of GIS.
• Must have experience in project management, including program plans and budgeting.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (crucial for interaction with community organizations, volunteers, and staff).
• Highly motivated, organized and detailed oriented.
• Versatile (able and willing to assist coworkers when needed).
• Demonstrate the ability to work independently and with a team.

• Available to work Tuesday through Saturday.
• Ability to conduct moderate to strenuous physical activity and lift 50 pounds repetitively.