KPU Farm Coordinator

Job Overview

We are currently seeking a Farm Coordinator to join the Department of Sustainable Agriculture team within the Faculty of Science
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The KPU Farm Coordinator works as an integral member of the Department of Sustainable Agriculture team within the Faculty of Science, collaborating with colleagues in the development and daily operations of the KPU Farm, a twenty‑acre certified organic teaching and research farm. The KPU Farm Coordinator is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all aspects of KPU Farm’s day‑to‑day operations. These include crop planning, crop production, site maintenance, integration of educational programming into farm operations, assisting faculty and instructional associates with planning, executing and maintaining experiments, providing technical training and support for researchers, supervising seasonal farm staff, and mentoring student interns.

The KPU Farm Coordinator represents the KPU Farm to outside key parties including, but not limited to, the City of Richmond, farmers, customers, industry associations and media.

• Bachelor of Science (Masters in Science obtained or in process preferred) in appropriate research/disciplinary areas related to sustainable agriculture.

• Minimum three years’ experience managing diversified farm operations.
• Demonstrated ability to provide hands‑on crop production training.
• Ability to use software appropriate to all farm management and reporting tasks (i.e. word processing, database, spreadsheets, statistical, presentation, and specific equipment software).
• Demonstrated team leadership and training abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to work with students and faculty in educational programming.
• Demonstrated ability to work with partner groups (i.e. agriculturists, grower associations, business, academic institutions) to conduct research and education programming.
• Demonstrated excellent oral and written English language skills.
• Highly developed organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated understanding that agricultural research and production agriculture has busier growing seasons that requires some flexibility in scheduling.

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As per the KPU-BCGEU Collective Agreement, qualified internal applicants within the BCGEU bargaining unit are given first consideration in filling this position. Internal applicants must apply by 11:59pm on the internal closing date  in order to be considered as an internal applicant. Internal applications received after the closing date will be considered as an external applicant.

Salary and wage increments are in accordance with the Collective Agreement.