City Green
Careers & Internships
Open Positions
Check back in early Spring 2025 for new openings!
Community Outreach Coordinator
Position Description:
The Community Outreach Coordinator at City Green will maintain the organization’s social media accounts, electronic communications, and support in-person community building and outreach. The Community Outreach Coordinator is positioned within the Department of Advocacy and Community Engagement. This department’s main activities include community outreach, communications, social media, coalition building, content creation, graphic design, volunteer coordination, event planning and hosting events, advocacy, and fundraising. The ideal candidate has experience with both social media and traditional in-person outreach strategies, is familiar with communities in Paterson, Clifton, and/or Passaic, has a strong desire to work in support of local agriculture, fresh food access, community gardening, and/or outdoor education.
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Note: Applications for this position will start being reviewed in January 2025 for a potential February/March start date.
College Internship (Spring)
Position Description:
City Green’s Urban Agriculture College Internship Program will provide participants with a wide variety of hands-on work, educational experiences and independently-led projects to support City Green’s mission of creating and supporting urban farms, community gardens, school gardens and green spaces while addressing public health concerns, nutrition inequality and environmental stewardship.
The goal of the Urban Agriculture (UA) Internship is to provide a dynamic opportunity to aspiring people of varied educational fields who believe that the urban agriculture and community food systems can create environmental justice, food security, and enhance communal outdoor experiences for residents of Northern New Jersey. We are a mission-driven team and the UA Intern’s role and responsibilities will be integrated within our existing programmatic structure to implement engaging and educational programs and deepen our reach into the community.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Hiring at City Green
Diversity is a core value of City Green. We believe the power of diversity enriches all of us by exposing us to a range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions. City Green is committed to working to build and sustain an equitable and inclusive work environment where diversity is celebrated and valued. We believe diversity benefits and enriches the development of all of our staff, partners, supporters, and community.
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