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POSITION AVAILABLE:     Farmer’s Market Coordinator

Hours:  7:30 am – 3:00 pm – Saturdays, June 5th – September 25, inclusive

            Tuesdays to Friday – hours to be determined

         

Additional Hours for:

  • Consultation with Supervisor/Facility Manager on vendor bookings
  • Updating vendor/bookings
  • Consulting with BPCC Facility Manager and/or Supervisor on market issues;
  • Reconciliation of payments received/vendor contractors
  • Preparing reports as required for Board meetings
  • Preparing front parking lot for market including, painting, cleaning leaves, twigs
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*Additional hours required will be determined by Supervisor/Facility Manager;

Rate:    Hourly wage of $14.00 per hour plus 4% vacation pay

            Wages paid bi-monthly by Bronx Park Community Centre

 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Set up the market each morning and clean up at the end of the day
  • Put up signage for Farmer’s Market
  • Put out garbage and recycling bins as required, remove garbage and recycling bins at the end of the day (or empty during the day)
  • Set up barriers in the parking lot to restrict vehicle access
  • Set up COVID sanitizing stations, stanchions for crowd control and signs
  • Guide and direct vendors to their assigned stalls
  • Act as a reference and support to vendors
  • Provide information to customers as required
  • Sign up casual vendors on the day of the sale
  • Ensure vendors have paid for the day (pre-booked stalls)
  • Accept vendor payments and issue receipts
  • Ensure compliance with all Bronx Park Farmers Market rules and regulations governing vendors
  • Resolve any issues that may arise with diplomacy and professionalism
  • Report any issues, concerns or suggestions to Facility Manager and/or Supervisor
  • Communicating with vendors via email during the week, sending out Registration forms and receiving;
  • Advertising the market on on-line sites and boulvard                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           If interested in the above position, please email your resume and contact information to facilitymanager@bronxpark.ca.  This position starts immediately.

 

 

 

Please be advised, that until COVID restrictions are revised we are unable to open our Farmer's Market.  Please keep checking back as we hope to open in early July 2021.    All interested parties should be self-screening for COVID-19 before attending the Farmer's market. If you are not able to honestly answer no to all questions in the questionnaire, please remain home until you can. https://sharedhealthmb.ca/covid19/screening-tool/

 

 

We are introducing a bunch of new vendors this year including Tamarack Farms from Erickson, Manitoba.

We welcome back Fairlane Farms, Zhoda Farms, Loewen’s Family Growers, The Crafty Viking, Sharpening by the Hand of Gord, The Jangle Sisters Jewelry and many more!

Check out our Facebook Page for weekly updates and to join in on our contests.

Remember we are open every Saturday from 9-2 rain or shine, and each week there are new berries, veggies and other farm-grown goods to try!

Attention growers, crafters, bakers, builders and artisans!

Location: Bronx Park Community Centre, 720 Henderson Hwy where Elmwood, East and North Kildonan all meet.
Dates:  When COVID restrictions allow us to open  -  Every Saturday  until the last Saturday in September.
Times: 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

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