V- Garden Team Leader

Job Description

The Gardening Team Leader oversees all garden maintenance activities and associated garden projects, ensuring areas are safe and enjoyable for all community members, visiting agencies, staff, volunteers and officers. More broadly, we believe an inspiring and welcoming garden contributes to community wellbeing. Along with managing and leading a team of gardeners, this role draws on the Garden Team Leader’s practical and the aesthetic skills in garden maintenance, making this role very satisfying for those who enjoy working in a team to create beautiful, peaceful and bountiful spaces, as well as neatness and order.

Key responsibilities:

Oversee gardening activities

Applying a wealth of gardening knowledge and experience to oversee regular maintenance such as sweeping, raking, mowing, weeding, pruning, mulching, composting and watering, as well as ongoing seasonal tasks to keep the harvest garden productive and pest-free.

Garden projects

Using vision, creativity and some project and budgeting management, plan and oversee the building of garden beds, paths, and other garden features.

Garden equipment

Bringing a good dose of responsibility, ensure tools and equipment are properly checked, used and stored, with particular attention to ensuring they are maintained in safe working order at all times. Ensure team members are properly trained to use equipment safely and effectively.

Qualifications and skills (desired/required):

Experience in leading and managing others in day-to-day tasks as well as seeing projects through to completion

Knowledge and experience in plants, soils, seasonal maintenance and small gardening projects is required

Confident using and caring for gardening tools and equipment

Level of fitness to undertake gardening activities, including digging and lifting soil

Good communication skills, both listening to and conveying information/ideas/suggestions

Background check requirements:

Background checks play an important part in our commitment to being a safe organisation. Where an applicant has disclosable history, the selection process includes a fair assessment and a risk management approach. Collection of personal information is handled per our privacy and confidentiality policies. Below is what is required for this role:

As this role requires access to valuable equipment and at times, unsupervised entry to secure areas, access to confidential information, it requires a Police Check

In some states, this role is considered child-related and therefore may require a Working with Children Check/Working with Vulnerable People Check

Time Required & Commitment:

As agreed with manager