Employability Assistant

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Winthrop
  
  LIFE Program Director, the Employability Assistant supports the Winthrop
  
  LIFE program and students, is responsible for daily greenhouse operations, and provides transportation for students to off-campus employment sites.
• Provides coaching to students by modeling job tasks and assessing performance quality.
• Transports students to off-campus employment sites using university or personal vehicle.
• Supervises greenhouse planting, watering, fertilizing, pest control and harvesting of plants.
• Monitors and adjusts temperature, humidity and lighting to ensure optimal greenhouse conditions.
• Manages resources by controlling water, fertilizer and soil.
• Manages, trains, schedules and assigns daily tasks of student greenhouse workers.

• High school diploma.
• Three years of greenhouse experience.
• Valid driver's license with clean driving record.
• Knowledge of planting, growing and selling annuals.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with faculty, staff and students.
• Ability and willingness to transport students in own reliable vehicle to various locations when university vehicle is unavailable.
• Ability and willingness to assist students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Position details: 20 hours per week, beginning August 1, 2026, and ending July 31, 2027.