Lauren’s Garden ServiceWe are a small, local, eco-friendly garden company looking for a native plant nursery assistant/sales and administrative assistant to work closely with administrative manager doing a variety of tasks. This position handles helping the administrative manager with client communication, requests for work, scheduling for jobs and crew, help with hiring crew, help updating and developing content for the website, social networking and blogging, updating portfolio pics on the website, caring for our small native plant nursery by checking inventory, organizing and watering and helping with special events like classes, fall and spring plant sales and much more! We are passionate about sustainability and ecofriendliness. Any interest or knowledge about these subjects is not required but would be a bonus!Job Description—Nursery AssistantGeneral Duties
Watering nursery plant, client hold section plants and containers and gardens on property
Accepts and unloads deliveries
Moves and organizes plants
Takes thorough and accurate plant inventories and updates them on website and social media
Help with merchandising, promotion of nursery stock, pots, containers gardens and other items for sale
Organize the nursery area
Weed pots, fix signage, arrange plants
Help customers visiting the nursery in plant selection and moving purchases to their car
Keeping track of sales through paperwork and inventory
Putting signs out for Saturday sales at nursery
Working the Sat spring and fall sales at the nursery
Watering on weekends
Setting up sprinkler systems and testing them for weekend watering
Assist the admin in organizing client plant hold section
Help promote the nursery and off site sales through social networking, daily instagram and facebook posts, hanging post cards on local bulletin boards
Help with writing and posting blogs and other social networking and business promotion strategiesPay
$12-$15/hr

 

Benefits
Healthcare after 3 months
Paid holidays 2nd season
Paid winter break
Hours
Mon-Thurs- 9:15-5:45
Saturdays April 1st til end of October- 9:30-3:30Direct supervisor is the administrative assistant