Project Manager

at  Triangle Community Garden

Job description
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Triangle Community Garden, as a Project Manager.
We want to hear from you if you have a passion for nature connection, horticulture and social enterprise, love working with people and have management skills and/or experience.
In this role you will be managing and developing all aspects of our greencare projects; supporting our staff and volunteers; and ensuring our services reach as many people as feasible.
Triangle Community Garden runs horticultural therapy sessions in our allotment sites and community garden in Hitchin, Hertfordshire working with people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health issues.
Ideally you’ll have some knowledge or experience of social therapeutic horticulture and working with people with additional needs. You’ll need to have experience of managing people and projects and it would be beneficial if you had experience of developing services and networks with other local organisations.

Appointment is subject to a satisfactory DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) check.

• Salary: £28-32K fte
• Hours: 3 days a week (22.5 hours) worked flexibly

If you don’t have experience in all the areas, we are looking for please do consider applying – no one is perfect! The most important thing we’re looking for is your passion for what we do and your ability to manage people and projects.
Closing date: 1st December
The Triangle Community Garden is a charity, based in Hitchin, Herts, helping people of all ages and abilities to ‘Connect, Grow, Enjoy’ through community gardening and contact with the natural world.

We do this through:

• Supporting physical and mental health through our social therapeutic horticulture, healthy living and wellbeing projects
• Providing volunteering opportunities for all ages in nature
• Community events, forest school activities, wildlife walks and nature-based workshops
• Cooking classes for men
• Improving our local environment for people and nature

Please refer the Job description for details