What are the responsibilities and job description for the Full Time Seasonal Field Manager position at YMCA Southcoast?
YMCA Southcoast
Job Title: Full-Time Seasonal Field Manager
40hrs/week March 31, 2025 – November 1, 2025
Position Summary:
The Seasonal Field Manager leads staff and volunteers in conducting fieldwork on a 5-acre production vegetable farm in variable weather conditions. The Field Manager works with and trains volunteers of diverse ages, backgrounds, and abilities. Position is full-time seasonal March 31st through November 1st.
Essential Functions:
Results Oriented: Strives to meet and exceed goals and deliver a high value experience for members. Embraces new approaches and discovers new ideas to create a better volunteer experience. Makes sound judgements and transfers learning from one situation to another. Establishes goals, clarifies tasks, plans work, and actively participates in meetings. Supports fundraising, follows budgeting policies and procedures, and reports financial irregularities immediately.
Personal Development Oriented: Accurately assesses personal feelings, strengths, and limitations, and how they impact relationships. Pursues self-development that enhances job performance. Demonstrates and openness to change. Seeks opportunities in the change process.
Mission and Community Oriented: Accepts and demonstrates YMCA values. Works effectively with people of different backgrounds, abilities, opinions, and perceptions. Demonstrates a desire to serve others and fulfill community needs.
People Oriented: Seeks first to understand the other person’s point of view. Remains calm in challenging situations. Builds rapport and relates well with others. Listens for understanding and meaning. Speaks and writes effectively. Takes initiative to assist in developing others.
Results Oriented: Strives to meet and exceed goals and deliver a high value experience for members. Embraces new approaches and discovers new ideas to create a better customer experience. Makes sound judgements and transfers learning from one situation to another. Establishes goals, clarifies tasks, plans work, and actively participates in meetings. Supports fundraising, follows budgeting policies and procedures, and reports financial irregularities immediately.
Job Title: Full-Time Seasonal Field Manager
40hrs/week March 31, 2025 – November 1, 2025
Position Summary:
The Seasonal Field Manager leads staff and volunteers in conducting fieldwork on a 5-acre production vegetable farm in variable weather conditions. The Field Manager works with and trains volunteers of diverse ages, backgrounds, and abilities. Position is full-time seasonal March 31st through November 1st.
Essential Functions:
- Engage in field preparation, cultivation and harvesting of crops.
- Plant, tend, monitor crop growth
- Transport, store, and record yields.
- Assist with orientation, education, and recruitment of volunteers.
- Identify and correct potential safety issues.
- Maintain equipment.
- Previous experience working on farms.
- Ability to engage and instruct non-farm workers in harvesting techniques.
- Ability to create an instructional, positive, and productive environment for volunteer workers.
- Experience working with tractors and other mechanical equipment preferred but not required.
- Must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to work outdoors in a wide range of weather conditions (including heat and humidity) for long periods of time.
- Required to stoop, kneel, open containers, and shovel materials.
- Ability to work safely with various organically certified materials including fertilizers in dry, liquid, spray, and powder forms.
- Ability to work in conditions that create dirt, dust, pollen.
- Monday through Friday 8am to 4pm. Once a month, watering duties and half day of volunteer management on Saturday 9am to noon.
- Volunteer days are Tuesdays, Wednesday, and Thursdays 9am to 11am, and 2pm to 4pm. Field Manager will be expected to help manage volunteers one Saturday a month from 9am to noon.
- In case of extreme heat, schedule is subject to change to avoid heat related illness.
- YMCA Southcoast follows the Mass State laws regarding earned sick time. For more information, please visit this website. https://www.mass.gov/info-details/earned-sick-time
- Compensation for days off is not provided for seasonal staff, however, the Field Manager is welcome to request unpaid time off with adequate communication with Farm Director.
Results Oriented: Strives to meet and exceed goals and deliver a high value experience for members. Embraces new approaches and discovers new ideas to create a better volunteer experience. Makes sound judgements and transfers learning from one situation to another. Establishes goals, clarifies tasks, plans work, and actively participates in meetings. Supports fundraising, follows budgeting policies and procedures, and reports financial irregularities immediately.
Personal Development Oriented: Accurately assesses personal feelings, strengths, and limitations, and how they impact relationships. Pursues self-development that enhances job performance. Demonstrates and openness to change. Seeks opportunities in the change process.
Mission and Community Oriented: Accepts and demonstrates YMCA values. Works effectively with people of different backgrounds, abilities, opinions, and perceptions. Demonstrates a desire to serve others and fulfill community needs.
People Oriented: Seeks first to understand the other person’s point of view. Remains calm in challenging situations. Builds rapport and relates well with others. Listens for understanding and meaning. Speaks and writes effectively. Takes initiative to assist in developing others.
Results Oriented: Strives to meet and exceed goals and deliver a high value experience for members. Embraces new approaches and discovers new ideas to create a better customer experience. Makes sound judgements and transfers learning from one situation to another. Establishes goals, clarifies tasks, plans work, and actively participates in meetings. Supports fundraising, follows budgeting policies and procedures, and reports financial irregularities immediately.
