Urban Harvest STL - Communications & Events Assistant

Description: 

The Communications & Events Assistant will support Urban Harvest STL with our public and programmatic engagement goals via digital communications and fundraising events. They will work with the Communications and Development team to fulfill program needs, event planning, and social media efforts. This FWS position will largely focus on assisting with Fall fundraising events, community agriculture distribution, and creating social media content to share. 

These initiatives and events are core networking and development strategies to ensure that Urban Harvest STL can fulfill our food access mission. No event coordination or communications experience is necessary. You must be able to commit to 10 hours a week and have reliable transportation to the event sites.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

This position will assist the communications and development teams with planning and communication in service of our events series. Event duties will include communication with sponsors, partners, vendors, and volunteers, as well as curating social media marketing and photo/video documentation of events and programs. During events, the responsibilities entail supervising event volunteers, helping with set-up, check-in, food and drink service, and clean up. Communications duties will support the promotion and marketing of these events, program communications, and the social media calendar. This will include designing content in Canva, as well as recording and editing video content from our farms for Instagram and Facebook platforms. 

Urban Harvest STL grows healthy produce across a network of five urban farms in the heart of St. Louis and donates the harvest to nonprofit partners serving communities with limited or non-existent access to healthy, nutritious food. As part of this mission, we provide fresh produce at no cost to recipients. We support the cost of this free distribution program through ticketed events that connect attendees with fresh food from the farm while also raising money for our farming operations.

Required Qualifications/Skills: 

• Must have accepted a Federal Work-Study award for the current academic year
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people and stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications/Skills: 

• Interest or experience in event planning, marketing, fundraising, and volunteer coordination
• Interest or experience in organic and regenerative farming, sustainability, racial justice, health and community development.
• Experience wit