About Can You Dig It

Can You Dig It is a community gardening initiative designed to address community connection and resiliency as well as food security. Its roots are in belonging (fostering inclusive and welcoming spaces) and contribution (a portion of the gardens’ yields go to people and causes that are important to the gardeners).

Can You Dig It has a series of contracts with municipalities and other partners who are interested in bringing sustainable food-growing gardens to their regions/properties and who are interested in the focus on social resiliency.

Our goal is to transform urban spaces into agricultural ones, and socially disconnected landscapes into richly connected ones.

What Do We Do?

We plan and coordinate garden builds (with the gardeners), facilitate conversations, and provide workshops, training, and resources around healthy and sustainable growing practices and inclusive gardening. We also are involved in a number of projects and collaborations with community organizations and businesses that are similarly interested in food-producing gardens and place-making.

What’s Next for Can You Dig It?

CYDI began as an initiative within posAbilities, a charity providing services to persons with developmental disabilities and their families. Today, with over 40 community gardens throughout Metro Vancouver and more gardens and workshops on the way in 2016, its time to become our own non-profit society.

We’re looking for a new Project Coordinator—someone who will take over CYDI and help it to transition into its next incarnation. This means we’re looking for someone who can (1) continue the work that we do, such as building gardens, providing workshops and participating in collaborations, (2) work with posAbilities to transition CYDI into a non-profit society, (3) lead the new non-profit and (4) help to shape the future of this role.

About the Project Coordinator

You are someone with a passion for both sustainable gardening as well as connected, caring and cooperative communities. You know about sustainable food-producing practices and gardening. Maybe you’ve even coordinated the build of a community garden!—but don’t worry, we can help you learn this piece.

You are a kind, curious, and thoughtful person. You love diversity and the potential of people coming together. You have lots of patience and show calm, even when you’re stressed. Communication is your strong suit: you can facilitate a workshop, make a presentation, write a grant, listen well and humbly nudge people into action.

You are both a team player and a decisive leader. You enjoying working in the garden getting your hands dirty, as well as sitting at the computer working on materials for a workshop.

Your schedule is flexible (some months there may be a lot more work than others). You’re prepared to travel across Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey and White rock, you will need a car.

You are also the kind of person that enjoys a challenge. You don’t need anyone looking over your shoulder because you are driven. A self-starter. Someone motivated by the fires within rather than the forces without.

And lastly, you are a creative and strategic thinker and can point to any number of projects or initiatives that you have helped to conceive, design and execute.

This is a contract position (starting ASAP) with 1200 hours guaranteed. Additional work is lining up, and you can help to drum up more.

To Apply

Send your resume and cover letter to:
careers@posabilities.ca
by February 1st 2016