Job Opportunities

Part-time, hourly position - $17/hr 

Available to Start Immediately

The Ossining Winter Farmers Market is looking for an enthusiastic, personable candidate to manage a seasonal farmers market and assist with market promotion within the community. 

The Farmers Market Manager should cultivate a sense of ownership of their Farmer’s Market through:

• Supervising daily operations to assure a smooth and safe running market
• Enforcing market rules and regulations
• Collecting and reporting market data and success metrics
• Setting up and breaking down the market manager tent and market signage
  
• Selling farmers market goods 
• Serving as a market host to welcome and engage shoppers, promoting good relations between vendors, our company, and the shoppers as a representative of Down to Earth Markets.
• Engaging with shoppers and vendors to report successes, concerns and opportunities to Down to Earth Markets.
  

Requirements:

• Must attend annual training at our Ossining, NY office as well as completing shadowing and training dates at other markets prior to your market’s opening date.
• Must be available to occasionally represent the farmers market at local chamber of commerce meetings, community board meetings, fairs, volunteer opportunities or other community events.
• Must be available to distribute flyers in the farmers market community several times throughout the season.
• Must have access to reliable transportation
  
• Must be punctual
• Must be able to lift and carry 50 lbs.
• Must have access to a computer and smart phone for emailing, social media posting, submitting and receiving reports
• Must commit to work for the entire market season

Interested parties should e-mail a cover letter and resume to info@downtoearthmarkets.com and Michael@downtoearthmarkets.com

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.

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