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Position: Adult Education Coordinator
Award: Northey Street City Farm (NSCF) Enterprise Agreement
Hours: 20 hours per week. Includes some Saturday work (paid at penalty rates). Note that teaching on Permaculture courses and workshops is renumerated separately to these hours.
Salary: NSCF Enterprise Agreement Level 3, $27.29/hr, plus entitlements (e.g., leave, super) as defined in the NSCF Enterprise Agreement.
Contract Position: Permanent Part-time
Responsible to: Education & Farming Manager
Work Location: Northey Street City Farm, Windsor, Brisbane.
The Adult Education Coordinator should be a passionate educator with excellent communication and people management skills. They will have a thorough understanding of Permaculture principles and practices, and the ability to develop these into engaging and profitable Education and Workshop Programs.
Established in 1994, Northey Street City Farm (NSCF) is a non-profit community organisation for people of all ages and backgrounds to learn the principles of Permaculture through practical, hands-on experience. Join an enthusiastic, passionate group of people to work on one of Australia’s largest city farms; a Permaculture site on 6 acres, established kitchen and market gardens as well as orchards and wood-lot, plus Brisbane’s only Organic Sunday Markets. NSCF is also a community hub that facilitates the development of social connections and new skills for volunteers and participants in a variety of programs.
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We’re excited to announce that Northey Street City Farm will be hosting our annual Winter Solstice Festival! It’s a time for our community to come together and celebrate the changing of the season, as we welcome the longer days and the growing light.
We’ll be opening up the Farm to offer workshops, performances, and exciting spaces to explore.
We’re honoured to be a part of your community and the creativity that comes with it during this special event. Come and join in on the festivities, connect with others and share in the community spirit.
We can’t wait to see you!
More information and tickets available here.
Do you have amazing financial management skills? Love communicating with a diverse range of people? Are you highly organised, efficient, and motivated? Apply now to join us at the Farm as our new Finance Coordinator!
Position: Finance Coordinator
Award: Northey Street City Farm (NSCF) Enterprise Agreement
Hours: 20 hours per week
Pay rate: NSCF Enterprise Agreement Level 3, $26.89/hr, plus entitlements (e.g. leave, super) as defined in the NSCF Enterprise Agreement
Contract Position: Permanent Part-time
Responsible to: Enterprise & Support Manager
The Finance Coordinator should be an efficient, highly motivated and organised individual who communicates well and enjoys working with a diverse range of people.
The person will need the ability to manage multiple tasks in a busy office environment and have high level skills in financial management.
● Manage the financial accounting, filing and reporting systems of the Farm
● Organise cash handling processes, especially at events
● Provide information to managers to assist with preparation and monitoring of annual and program budgets, as required
● Prepare required financial reports in an accurate and timely fashion
● Ensure that all internal and external financial accountability requirements are met (those of constitution, legislation, funding bodies)
● Assist Management Committee Treasurer as required in managing Farm finances
● Provide general training for budget management, and prepare for and contribute to the Farm’s annual budget and planning processes
● Administer finances for NSCF, including receipting and banking all received monies, payment of wages and associated costs, payment of all accounts by agreed process and reimbursement for agreed allowable costs
● Ensure that there are suitable financial systems (structures and processes) in place. This includes ensuring that all financial transactions are recorded accurately and documentation is filed in a manner which makes for easy retrieval and auditing
● Ensure financial systems are accessible to those responsible for finances, programs and budgets
● Keep all records of organisational financial transactions and ensure accurate bookkeeping
● Initiate strategies for managing any surplus funds to maximise return to the Farm
● Address banking issues, including ensuring currency of signatories to bank accounts
● Report and communicate with funding bodies and government departments as required by agreements and legislation
● Action finance related correspondence
● Prepare financials for submission to auditor
● Experience in managing financial accounting and reporting systems, including payroll
● Experience in developing budgets and managing financial systems for small business or
community organisations
● Intermediate-to-advanced skills in using MYOB, Word, Excel, Outlook and Xero
● Ability to efficiently coordinate a range of tasks in a well organised manner
● Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to relate well within a diverse
community
● Experience working in community/not-for-profit organisations
● Possess a general understanding of Permaculture or a willingness to learn
● Willingness to contribute to other areas of the Farm’s activities
Applications must individually address each of the selection criteria (maximum 100 words each).
Please also include a CV with at least two referees.
Applications due: 1pm Thursday 11 May 2023
Proposed interview date: Tuesday 16 May 2023
Proposed role induction date (paid): Monday 22 May 2023
Proposed start date: Tuesday 23 May 2023
For further information, please contact Simon Calcinai on enterprise.mgr@nscf.org.au
Please submit application electronically to: info@nscf.org.au
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people are encouraged to apply.
Position: Youth Educator
Employment: Casual, as per NSCF Staff Agreement, Level 2.
Day & Hours: As required, including occasional weekends.
Salary: $29.99 per hour, with penalty rates paid on weekends
Reports to: Youth Education Co-ordinator
This position requires people to be on their feet and walking around the farm for extended periods and doing tasks involving carrying and lifting equipment.
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First Nations people are encouraged to apply.
To apply, please email Cristyan at youthedn@nscf.org.au, including a brief paragraph describing how you meet the selection criteria and a CV.
For further information, please contact Cristyan Leal on youthedn@nscf.org.au.
Applications are due by 4pm Wednesday 10 May 2023.
PRESS RELEASE RE: Keep Farmers Markets Open – 8.4.2020
Recently the Courier Mail has displayed photographs of our Northey St Organic Farmers Market with the words “crowds at Northey Street City Farm Organic Market at Windsor”. We believe their photographs and wording, in the context of other markets being overcrowded and having no social distancing regulations, misrepresents us and the safe measures we have put in place to comply with government regulations in response to COVID 19. No one who attended our markets over the past few Sundays would have described them as crowded. They were quiet and safely regulated.
Our response to COVID 19 was swift and professional. We have been identified as being farmers’ market leaders in responding to the COVID 19 threat with our safety measures and have received outstanding feedback and support from our community about how safe they feel to shop at our markets.
In this time of pandemic, we want the media to support organisations like us who deeply care about people’s health and that of the planet. Well managed, socially regulated farmers’ markets that comply with government regulations are the safest places to buy your fresh produce when they are well spaced, in the open air and sunshine and not in confined spaces like supermarkets. This is why the Chief Medical Health Officer is supporting essential food markets to stay open.
Farmers Markets also continue to support the economy by supporting small business, local farmers and local jobs. In a time of pandemic we need the media to support what is good for the economy and people’s health and we wholeheartedly believe our markets do both.
Please find below examples of our safety measures and community responses to the recent Courier Mail articles.
For further comment:
Desi Achilleos
Enterprise.mgr@nscf.org.au
0407154104
Enterprise and Events Manager, Northey Street City Farm
Our COVID 19 safety measures include:
Messages of Support in response to the Courier Mail’s Facebook Post found here: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157708407517702&id=90004797701
Dace: The hugest shout out to Northey St Organic Farmers Market, its organisers, stall holders and patrons. I have never seen anything so far better organised and run since social distancing has come into effect.
Who knew that hippies can be so organised!!!! If anyone needs lessons on how to run essential services with social distancing and proper hygiene, contact Northey Street!!!
Joanne: Ms Palaszczuk, There are many farmers markets that have been taking all of these new protective measures VERY seriously! I can attest for Northey St Organic Farmers Market who have been fantastic with putting in place measures to ensure people are socially distancing and hygiene stations are available at many points. These markets are essential for myself and my family. I actually feel safer going to those markets than a large supermarket like, Woolworths or Coles, and I’m a 6 month pregnant woman. If I thought I was putting myself or my unborn child in danger I would not go. If other markets continue to disregard distancing regulations in coming weeks, then by all means, please close operations on those specific markets but NOT the ones that are and have been doing the right thing. Thank you.
Michael: Like others below, I buy all my family’s fresh, chemical free organic food from Northey St markets every Sunday and they are leading the way in restricting numbers, spacing out stalls, handwash/ sanitiser on entry, social distancing markers and signage. See the picture above? The girl holding the yellow chain is restricting entry into this stall and the people are waiting on 1.5 metre marks on the ground in a queue to get in. Big difference to when I visited woollies this afternoon with no visible sanitiser or restriction of entry procedures and people everywhere inside a sealed store, not an open air market. Next time do your research Courier Mail instead of running a photo taken from an intentionally deceptive perspective.
Nicole: The Northey Street Organic Markets restricted numbers entering, plus each stall holder restricted numbers in their area, plus multiple hand washing stations, Eftpos facilities made this much more hygienic than a supermarket. Please keep the markets open to support our local farmers.
Jessica: Northey St Organic Farmers Market have implemented so many protective measures since advised by the government. I feel much safer shopping there than the two big supermarket chains. It would be completely unfair to put down a blanket ban when it is only a certain few that are not implementing physical distancing and hygiene measures.
Bronte: Northey St Organic Farmers Market did an excellent job this morning. They fenced off the perimeter and had staff monitoring the numbers that went in and out. Each stall had a line outside with safe distances marked on the ground. Stalls were capped at the correct number of people per square meter. There were several hand sanitizer stations. Stalls were offering eftpos as an alternative to handling cash. Seats and benches were removed to discourage loitering and social gathering. People were wearing gloves and masks. Everyone did a fantastic job. Please don’t close the farmers markets – we don’t want to be forced to only have Cole’s or woolies as produce options. We want to support buying direct from farmers, growers, and local business. We don’t see where our money goes and who gets the right portions if we buy from a chain supermarket. At farmers markets, you meet the growers, farmers, and local businesses in person. For us personally, it has been a family initiative and tradition for decades. Supporting our farmers and local growers should be supported and advocated by the government.
We are open again, 6 mornings a week!
City Farm Nursery products, plants, and useful information can be found here.
Due to tighter government regulations on farmers market numbers and social distancing, we will only have two entrances into the market on Sunday in order to regulate numbers and monitoring social distancing for everyone’s health. We ask that you please take these regulations seriously, leave your dogs at home and limit the number of people from a household attending to one where possible. Please ask any vulnerable neighbours if you can shop for them.
The City Farm Nursery will only be open Friday to Sunday, and only accepting payment through tap on cards this week.
We have an online store where you can order Nursery Products and Organic Food Boxes for pick up great for those vulnerable in the community, so they don’t miss our on stock. Food Boxes can also be delivered. Check out the online store here: https://northey-street-city-farm.myshopify.com/
We value your support and understanding in these times and we send out our love to the global community for good health, recovery and for the earth’s regeneration.
Please take care and apart from essential shopping, where possible #stayhome
The Summer Solstice Raffle has some great prizes donated by our regular artists, certified organic farmers and stall holders at the Northey St Organic Farmers Market, the City Farm Nursery and from the Permaculture Education Team at Northey St City Farm. Check out the amazing prizes below.
Tickets are $2 each, 3 for $5 or 7 for $10.
This is a great way to support the Farm Community in our fundraising efforts to ensure our financial sustainability.
You can buy them online here through paypal or on the night of our Summer Solstice Organic Street Food Market on the 20th of December, where we will draw the prizes at 8:15pm. Buy one now and support the Farm. Good luck and thanks in advance!
Simon and Ruth Chatburn have had their Honeyhunters Australia Stall at Northey Street Organic Farmers Market for over 4 years. It’s a family business with their kids Jonathan and Elise, and Elise’s partner Duncan, who often staff the stall on a Sunday with their happy faces. Stall owner and beekeeper Simon Chatburn realized 25 years ago there are many useful beekeeping products from the forests, not only honey, that could help people live in good health and with sustainable lifestyles. Beehive products have been used traditionally worldwide to enhance health and wellness, and their range has top quality beekeeping products for customers.
At Northey Street Markets with Jonathan showing off their large jars of raw organic honey, Simon displaying how bees work and his glass window feature for the Apitherapy House!
While some honey companies have been caught out diluting their honey with sugar syrups, at Honeyhunters Australia you can buy top quality organic raw honey in a reusable glass jar. Their honey is seriously delicious. They produce and sell all beehive products including many Eucalyptus honey varieties, Jellybush Honey (Australian Manuka), Honeycomb, Bee Pollen, Bee Bread, Beeswax, Beeswax Wrappers, Propolis, Bee Venom Cream and Natural Skin Care Products, only from beehive ingredients.
Honeyhunters Australia bee hive sites are in National Parks and State Forests in Queensland. They believe retaining the status of organic safeguards the integrity of their products to offer general wellness to their customers. Their products have been audited by B-Qual and are compliant to HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) and by AUS-QUAL for Certified Organic status since July 2019.
Simon and Ruth have traveled to Germany, Romania, Slovenia and Canada to attend international conferences and workshops to keep abreast of Apitherapy state-of-the-art of beekeeping regularly. They love to share their passions and knowledge on beekeeping with amateur beekeepers and on Apitherapy i.e. using beehive products to enhance wellness with all customers.
Apimondia Honey Awards Displays, Ruth and Simon showcasing their products to an International Audience.
They celebrate World Bee Day at the markets and campaign to Save the Bees. Educating the community on why saving bees is important and to stop the manufacturing of fake honey and the use of harmful pesticides and herbicides that harm bee populations.
We are very excited to have the Honeyhunters Australia stall join our monthly Friday Night Market. They will be attending the launch of our Friday Night market on the Summer Solstice, December 20th. Whether you come to our weekly Sunday Organic Market or our Monthly Friday Night Organic Market, go say hello to Ruth or Simon and check out their awesome range of beehive products.
What is better than buying someone a big jar of raw honey for Christmas?
You can find out more about Honeyhunters Australia here:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honeyhuntersaus/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/honeyhunters.australia/
Webpage: honeyhunters.com.au