Fresh Roots is Looking for a New Executive Director! - Please Share

[Kat Vriesema-Magnuson]

(Cross-posted - apologies for duplicates)

Hello all!

2023 marks the 10 year anniversary of the inaugural Fresh Roots, first of its kind in Canada, schoolyard farm. As we look to the future and the next 10 years of Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society, we are excited to go through a thoughtful process to find our next Executive Director to take Fresh Roots into the next decade. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to lead an entrepreneurial non-profit as it continues to mature, hone its unique contribution, and be part of an interconnected community of organizations who are re-imagining food education and working towards a comprehensive, universal, farm-to-cafeteria approach to school food programs. Fresh Roots is an operational organization, farming 3 small scale urban farms and facilitating a suite of outdoor educational programming.

If you are excited about the opportunity to create spaces for young people to come together to learn, grow, share, and celebrate food, we want to hear from you! Full job description is available on the Fresh Roots website.

Applications (resume and cover letter) can be emailed in PDF format (as one document) to in...@thevantagepoint.ca before end of day (5pm PST) Tues, Nov 14, 2023. Please use the format of "Fresh Roots – ED Application" in the subject line of email.

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Thanks,

Kat

Kat Vriesema-Magnuson (she/her/hers)

Director, Experiential Learning Programs

p: 778-764-0344, ext 100

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