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This Job is great if your schedule is not consistent, Managing Markets on dates when you are available to fill-in - make your own schedule. 

Market management: Direct and coordinate the safe, smooth running set-up and break-down of the market site while maintaining a pleasant and conversational demeanor.

• Set out all portable signs and barricades and set up the site manager’s tent and all specified materials.
• Coordinate with local authorities to remove improperly parked cars as applicable.
• Make sure that the market is set-up in a safe, organized and timely manner, that trucks do not block traffic and are moved off the market site as needed by the start time. Direct vendors to designated parking areas.
• Ensure that vendors comply with all market policies, enforce DTE rules and complete and distribute violations forms as needed.
• Ensure that the vendors keep their areas clean and free of debris during the market day and leave their areas broom clean and take their refuse with them.
• Oversee the safe and orderly break-down of the market, assuring that traffic is not blocked all moving vehicles are driving safely.
• Respond to problems or disputes within the market by listening to all sides and analyzing the situation. Using good judgment, take the steps necessary for peaceful resolution. If the situation needs further clarification, contact on-call personnel or defer resolution until discussing the matter with office personnel.
• Provide weekly written reports to office using on-line form about market operations, problems, resolutions, requests made, etc. within forty-eight (48) hours of the market end.
• Conduct accurate shopper counts each market day at designated hourly time periods.
• Be familiar with guidelines for safe handling and selling of food (contained within your binder). Monitor vendor selling practices and inform vendor staff and office personnel when practices appear questionable or out of compliance (e.g. cooler temperature, improper labeling or signage, improper sampling practice). Conduct periodic temperature checks and submit completed logs to the office. Oversee corrective actions per instructions.
• Familiarize yourself with the crops and products for sale by each farmer and producer. A listing of items per vendor can be found on the DTE website. View the items for sale each week to make sure they are products that are in season and are part of the vendor’s product offering. Inform office of any new products that are not listed and ask vendors to remove them from sale until approved through the office.
• Manage the recipe program – make sure you have season appropriate recipes on display. Contact your territory manager if you need new or more recipes.
• Manage the EBT terminal (NYC Markets) available for shoppers using the food stamps at the market. Track all the sales, hand out tokens to the shoppers and collect the tokens from the vendors at the end of the day. Distribute the Health Buck coupons to the food stamp shoppers and keep a log. Track all the sales and send all the paperwork to the office at the end of the market day.

Physical / logistical requirements:

• Able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
• Set up market tent and secure with 4, 25 pound weights.
• Walking, standing for several hours at a time.
• Ability to work in all weather conditions, e.g. heat, cold, rain, sun, wind.
• Transport and store (in a clean, dry place) site manager rig (tent, sand bags, table, signage, chair, recipe stand, bin, etc) as needed.
• Pick up equipment and / or supplies from office as needed.

Communications:

• Read weekly Site Manager Update, Shopper Email and Vendor Communications.
• Attend 1 Yearly Site Manager training at Down to Earth Market office as scheduled.
• Receive last minute market updates relayed via e-mail or cell phone.
• Respond in a timely manner to e-mail and voice communications from office.
• Depending on market location, managers may require access to a car to move and store the market tent and gear.

Sun Fed Beef is looking for a part time salesperson in NYC

About you:
We are looking for someone to sell our meat year round at the Farmer's Markets and other outlets in NYC.  If you like working outside and talking about food with all different types of people then this is the perfect job.  No previous experience necessary as we can train you on all the different cuts and how to cook them. Just a positive attitude and an interest in sustainable food. Bonus points if you live near Long Island City Queens.

About the position:

• Must be available to work Friday with the potential for picking up some Saturday and Sunday shifts
  
• 8-10 hours per week
  
• Must have valid driver's license
  
• Must be able to lift 50 lbs
  

Compensation:

• Hourly pay based on experience
  
• Commission based sales bonus for each market
  
• 40% discount on all beef, pork, chicken and lamb
  
• $10 meat credit for each market you work.
  

Please send a resume and brief description of your interest in the job to Mike@sunfedbeef.com

About our farm:
We raise dry-aged Black Angus Beef and pastured Berkshire Pork on our third-generation family farm near Earlville, NY. The farm is a diverse mixture of pastures, fields, woodlands, and wetlands, encompassing 1200 acres of the beautiful Sangerfield River valley, from riverbottom to hilltop. Since 1948, our family has focused on raising high-quality Black Angus Cattle by sustainably managing the wonderful land that we are blessed to call home.  Check out more info on our farm at www.sunfedbeef.com

Down to Earth Market has a temporary opening for our NYC Territory Manager. This is a part-time position, approximately 24 hours per week, to cover for our current Territory Manager, who will be taking parental leave. It may be possible to make this a full time, temporary position if combined with Site Manager duties. Please indicate such interest in your cover letter.

Samosa Shack is looking for two sales people to run their events, farmers market stands and pop-ups. The work is usually on weekends and the day starts with pick up at the kitchen location in Tarrytown. Samosa Shack provides a van but you must have a clean drivers license. If you have an enthusiasm for plan-based foods and the positive energy a food start up demands, email mini@samosashackny.com.