What are the responsibilities and job description for the Street Team Member position at Garbage To Garden?
Help the City of Medford go green!
Medford, MA launched its city-wide municipal composting service on July 1, 2024 and Garbage to Garden is looking for a green-living/compost enthusiast to join the Medford Street Team to promote Medford’s City-wide Composting Program.
This opportunity involves paid shifts driving around Medford distributing bins/knocking on doors/engaging with residents in the community, and will continue until we reach the maximum enrollment for the first year of the program.
For more information about Medford’s new composting program: https://medfordcomposts.com/
For more information about Garbage to Garden: https://garbagetogarden.org/
Responsibilities include:
- Representing Garbage to Garden and the new city composting program
- Reporting to the Garbage to Garden Storage unit in Saugus, MA to pick up a truck to use
- Driving around Medford neighborhoods
- Knocking on doors of eligible households
- Answering questions about Medford’s new composting program
- Onboarding interested residents
- Distributing curbside bins
- Accurately tracking and reporting progress and signup data
- Driving a 1 ton pick up truck
The ideal candidate will have:
- Excellent communication skills
- An interest in sustainability and recycling/composting
- A strong customer service mindset
- Comfort engaging with strangers and diverse groups of people
- A results oriented approach
- Willingness to learn on the fly
- Ability to walk/stand for long periods of time
- Ability to lift 50 lbs
- Experience using technology such as tablets, Google suite, Excel, etc.
- Experience in sales/marketing is a plus
- At least 10-30 hours of weekly availability that includes weekends and afternoons/early evenings
If you are interested in getting involved or learning more, please email Bridget at bridget@garbagetogarden.org.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $22.00 per hour
Expected hours: 10 – 30 per week
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Paid time off
Compensation Package:
- Commission pay
- Hourly pay
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Weekends as needed
Work Location: Multiple locations
Salary : $22