CoCoMGHub Home

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! 

Updated 1/19/2025

CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES

• Speakers Bureau Co-Lead for Webinar Delivery
• School Garden Advisor for Woodside Elementary in Concord
• School Garden Mentor at Oakley Elementary
• School Gardens Newsletter Editor-in-Chief
• Growing Gardeners Program - Instructor
• Video Editor

Speakers Bureau Co-Lead - Webinar Delivery 

Long-Term position (ideally 2 years) 

School Garden Advisor (Woodside Elementary, Concord)

Temporary or Long-Term position

As a School Gardener you'll provide gardening advice and guidance to the garden educator at Woodside Elementary in Concord; share reports on Collaborative Tools

Estimated time commitment:

Monthly as needed. Advisors work out schedules with the garden educator at their school.

Special skills:

• Knowledge of vegetable gardening
• interpersonal skills
• ability to share UCANR resources as needed

Interested? Please contact Pam paustin26@yahoo.com

School Garden Mentor at Oakley Elementary. -2 MGs needed

Temporary or Long-Term position

The duration of this role depends upon how long it takes to get Oakley Elementary's garden program up and running. The School Garden Mentor provides "from the ground up" advice for the school garden educators and "champions" at Oakley Elementary; share reports on Collaborative Tools

Estimated time commitment:

Probably 5 hours per month to begin; Depends on skills and speed of school garden champions

Special skills: Patience, interpersonal and communication skills; ability to share UCANR resources

Interested? Please contact Pam at paustin26@yahoo.com

School Gardens Newsletter Editor-in-Chief

Long-Term position  (ideally 2+ years)

Our School Gardens newsletter is a short-n-sweet quarterly greeting with links to timely articles pertinent to school gardens. We're seeking someone to take it over.

Estimated time commitment:

Probably 5 hours, once per quarter. 

Special skills:

Tech-savvy and knowledge of graphic design, written communication skills

Interested? Please contact Pam at paustin26@yahoo.com

Growing Gardeners Program - Instructor

Long-term, but intermittent

As an instructor, you'll conduct one-hour Zoom classes on one or more topics covered in the Beginning Vegetable Gardening Program (see below). Each program session consists of four Saturday mornings and covers 13 subjects, three to four each week. 

Estimated time commitment:

Depending on your availability, this can vary between 1 and 8 hours per quarter. 

Special skills:

• Comfort with Zoom and PowerPoint presentations
• Knowledge and expertise to present on one or more of the following 1-hour topics: botany, soil, getting started with vegetable gardening, irrigation, composting, vegetable bed preparation, the family vegetable bed, pollinators, fertilizers and amendments, year round vegetable gardening, IPM, information searching and common gardening problems. 
• Specific training and coaching (if needed) is provided.  Interested volunteers may attend one or two of the live Zoom classes to observe the program

Interested?   Contact Vicki Lee at VickiLee10@gmail.com or (510) 323-5397 

Video Editor

Long-Term preferred

The Video Editor will edit videos created from CCMG talks and events before posting.

Estimated time commitment:

About 3 hours a month.

Special skills:

We will train you to use video editing software.

Interested? Contact Lori Palmquist at loripalmquist@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

RECENTLY FILLED

• Finance Co-Chair
• General Equipment and Materials Lead or Co-Leads
• School Gardens Co-Lead (Central County)
• Webinar Marketing Coordinator
• Editor, “News to Grow By”
• Videographer
• Co-Lead for Volunteer Support
• Recruitment Team Members
• Growing Gardeners Program - Lead or Co-Leads
• East County Liason,  School Gardens

Finance Co-Chair

Long-Term position (ideally 2 years) 

Special skills:

• Good knowledge of Excel as well as an understanding of finance matters.
• Good peer coaching skills and ability to work with all program leaders and ELT
• Interpersonal skills and attention to detail
• No CPA or Accounting is required!

General Equipment and Materials Lead OR Co-Leads

2-Year position

The General Equipment and Materials (GEM) project manages items that are shared among various projects in the organization. These include laptop computers, projectors, tables, canopies, chairs, signage and various other things. The items are stored at the Bisso office or in two storage containers on County property near Central Contra Costa Sanitary District in Martinez.

Much of the work involves transporting items to where they are needed such as Our Garden. Having a pickup truck or van is helpful, but not necessary to work in the GEM project. Many hands make light work. In the winter, we repair items where we are able and decide whether any replacements or new purchases are needed. Once in a while we update laptop software and try to resolve any computer problems.

Estimated time commitment:

Work in this project is episodic and is often related to other events such as the annual Great Tomato Plant Sale (GTPS). For example, this year we received at the Bisso office and later delivered to Our Garden the 25,000 plastic pots that were used in the sale.

You will probably work about 10 hours in a year with most of that spread over three of the "busy” months.The Lead/s is not required to attend monthly Executive Committee meetings (EC) nor produce a report, but welcome to attend and inform the EC as needed/desired.

Special skills: Nope! You’ll work with volunteers in the other projects and help the Master Gardener organization run smoothly. Come out and join us!

School Gardens Co-Lead (Central County)

Long-Term position  (ideally 2+ years)

As SG co-lead, you'd do initial consults when requests come in for Central County. You'd find MGs to take on the tasks requested. You'd follow up with them, make sure they feel supported, and help them report their activities to Collaborative Tools. You'd attend quarterly online and/or in-person meetings with your co-lead and other SG volunteers. 

Estimated time commitment:

5-10 hours per month, depending on how many requests

Special skills: Interpersonal, organizational, efficiency

Tech-savvy and knowledge of graphic design, written communication skills

Interested? Please contact Pam at paustin26@yahoo.com

Webinar Coordinator

Long-term position (each coordinator manages 2-3 webinars per year)

This exciting and impactful role works with a team of MG speakers, presentation developers, and Marketing members, along with Library personnel to deliver quality presentations. Each webinar date, topic, speaker and presentation designer are in place prior to beginning the process. The process has a documented checklist and templates for easy delivery.

• Coordination tasks include preparing a timeline of required activities, scheduling and facilitating kickoff sessions, dry runs, and vetting sessions, providing webinar information to our Marketing team and library contact, and inviting and securing MG’s for the Q&A backup role.
• The coordinator typically acts as meeting moderator during the live session. This includes introducing and closing the webinar, tracking time and facilitating Q&A. If preferred, coordinators may request that a second MG perform some or all of the moderator functions.

Estimated time commitment:

For each webinar, there is a 7-8 week period extending from the kickoff meeting through the online webinar and debriefing. For an existing presentation you will probably spend 15 to 20 hours including behind-the-scenes coordination, dry-runs and the webinar itself. For a brand-new presentation, the process starts about 2 weeks prior and may require an additional 10 to 15 hours for the content vetting process.

Special skills:

• Good organizational skills!
• You will learn all the ropes through training on the Webinar Development Process templates and checklists as well as opportunities to shadow MG’s currently in this role.

Webinar Marketing Coordinator

Long-term preferred

Another fun opportunity to get involved with our webinars! The Marketing Coordinator is the liaison between the Webinar and Marketing teams. You will work with the webinar coordinator (via email) each month to compile relevant marketing information using existing forms and provide this information to the marketing team, track deliverables including website updates with links to recorded webinars and social media posts, and submit post-webinar attendance and survey data. 

Estimated time commitment:

These tasks require a commitment of 4-6 hours per month. There is a possibility of a job share to create an every-other-month commitment for each coordinator. 

Special skills:

• Comfortable using simple Word and Excel functions (sort, filter, format) to generate reports
• Training provideD

 

Editor, “News to Grow By”

Long-term position (2 years preferred)

News to Grow By is a quarterly newsletter. The Editor will manage the editorial team of writers, plan and hold meetings (Zoom) to brainstorm topics, and publish the newsletter (via email using Constant Contact).

Estimated time commitment:

The Editor will hold 1-2 brainstorming sessions for each quarterly issue. Then the time commitment is primarily during the 3 weeks prior to publication of the issue:

• Organize and maintain all drafts, articles and pictures on Google drive. Invite copy-editors.
• Cross-reference with UC publications and find appropriate images.
• Create webpages and Constant Contact email

Special skills needed:

We can train you in all the needed skills:

• Creating and sending e-blasts in Constant Contact
• Creating web pages on our website

Interested? Contact Hedwig Van Den Broeck – hedwigvdb@gmail.com  or Lori Palmquist – loripalmquist@gmail.com 

Videographer

Long-term preferred

The videographer will work with the existing videography team to film and edit videos of CCMG talks and events. We will provide the video equipment

Estimated time commitment:

This work is sporadic. There are only certain events where a videographer is needed.

Special skills:

• Use of CCMG video equipment – we can train you
• Use of video editing software – we can train you

Plant Sales Printed Materials Lead

Long-term position

If you like working with graphics and being part of a great team with rewarding results, this job is for you!  As the Plant Sales Printed Materials Lead, you will work with Plant Sales county leads and designated Communications team member to develop/design new printed materials for our plant sales events - the Great Tomato Plant Sale (GTPS - spring) and the Fall for Plant Sale (FFP - fall).  Examples of printed materials would be: posters, banners, flyers.

The Great Tomato Plant Sale is held annually in April and all printed materials should be ready to use by March 1st.  When we have the resources to plan/execute it, the Fall for Plants Sale is held in September and all printed materials are completed by August 1st.

Estimated Time Commitment:

During plant sales events, this could be 4-5 hours/month on average.  The Great Tomato Plant Sale effort would be the months of January - April; the Fall for Plants sale effort would be July - September.

Special Skills:

Attention to detail, comfortable with deadlines and willing to work with other Master Gardener volunteers.

Interested? Contact Mary Jo Corby, maryjocorbyccmg@gmail.com,  925-348-1582

Recruitment Team Members

Now - August

The Recruitment Team is beginning a new season to inform the public about our MG training class for 2023/2024! Our recruitment season runs from now until August. We have a variety of roles for you to participate and have fun - given the desire to provide opportunities for many MGs to participate, we ask that you please select one group to work with! 

• Marketing - work with Communications Team to determine best outreach - in particular for underserved communities
• Application - help with Qualtrics - the UC site where the applications are uploaded and monitored and downloaded for scoring. Clean up needed
• Information Sessions - Three total to be held in June - You can help at 1, 2, or all 3 sessions.  Time commitment is approximately 2 hours each with a dry run session held before.  Roles are Zoom manager; speaker (5 minute slots); Q&A person (30 mins)
• Scoring - review and finalize scoring matrix.  Need about 9-11 folks for this depending upon how many applications are received.  Typically involves 8-10 hours or more throughout July and August

Special skills: No special skills needed!

Co-Lead for Volunteer Support

Long-term position 

In this role you will help manage the tasks (which are mostly done by other volunteers) in the Volunteer Support project, generally including:

• reappointment;
• publishing and compiling results of the Skills and Interests Survey, managing VMS, updating job descriptions;
• organizing hospitality events, ordering badges and pins for hours recognition, welcoming transferring Master Gardeners, organizing the Nominating Committee, and more

Estimated time commitment:

Average 10 hours per month, depending on the time of year. 

Special skills:

• Friendly demeanor!
• Detail oriented and comfortable working with computers including using Microsoft Excel.

Interested? Contact Jon Dwyer at jon_dwyer@yahoo.com or Robyn Barker at barkelby@yahoo.com

Growing Gardeners Program - Lead (or Co-Leads)

Long-term position, ideally 2 years

The Growing Gardeners program has the privilege of teaching very eager students who are member of the public (not Master Gardeners!). Our excellent team members enthusiastically provide information that offers a foundational springboard to a successful vegetable garden. We plan 4 sessions a year, each with three classes on Zoom and one in-person day at Our Garden.

In this role you will help coordinate and manage a great team which includes but is not limited to presenters, hosts, in-person day coordinator, communication coordinators, and classroom support.

Estimated time commitment:

7-10 hours per month 

Special skills:

• Good peer coaching skills
• Interpersonal skills, organizational skills, and attention to detail
• Comfort with Zoom and PowerPoint presentations

Interested?   Contact Ann Ramirez at  annramirezot@gmail.com  or Ann Howard at annhoward184@gmail.com 

East County Liaison - School Gardens 

Long-Term position (ideally 2 years) 

Special skills: Interpersonal skills and attention to detail.

Interested? Please contact Pam at paustin26@yahoo.com