Garden Beautification Coordinator

General Description:

The Garden Beautification Coordinator oversees team captains and their volunteers as they assist the SDBG staff to maintain and improve the Garden on a regularly scheduled basis.

Duties:

1. Assure that each garden beautification team has a captain, help with recruiting and training as necessary, and provide rules and guidelines for safe gardening. If any team is without a captain, the coordinator assumes that responsibility.
2. Establish productive liaison between the head horticulturist and volunteers.
3. Ensure the good condition, appearance and accurate signage in all areas prior to major events, e.g. Gala in the Garden, Garden of Lights, etc.
4. Help identify areas requiring special attention and plan/organize to meet those needs, e.g. initiate Power Wednesdays to cover special needs, earmark new plants for specific areas, put new seasonal color into the various color beds as needed.
5. Bring issues to the attention of staff. This includes, but is not limited to condition of plants, availability of tools and supplies.
6. Arrange for full coverage of Saturday work parties and encourage staff gardeners to attend.
7. In coordination with staff, schedule training sessions for volunteers on rules, guidelines and basic gardening techniques with a particular emphasis on safety.
8. Attend regularly scheduled meetings (Docent Executive Board, Docent/Volunteer, Volunteer Orientation) to discuss issues, changes, announce garden work parties and recruit new garden beautification volunteers.
9. Track, maintain and communicate new volunteer information, add names to mailing list, send to team captains for recruiting purposes.
10. Create and distribute monthly calendar.
11. Provide support to team captains. Meet with team captains at least once yearly to exchange information, maintain the Garden Beautification Team Captain’s Notebook and provide to all new team captains.
12. Create annual goals, and present reports at the general meetings.

Specific Skills:

1. Basic knowledge of gardening and horticulture
2. Ability to productively work with others
3. Organization and planning skills
4. Ability to supervise and oversee volunteers and team captain

Time Required:

10 – 18 hours monthly

Recommended Term:

Minimum of two years with a succession planning candidate in development