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Join the Garden Team!
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San Francisco Botanical Garden is operated by a public/private partnership between San Francisco Botanical Garden Society and the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department.
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San Francisco Botanical Garden Society is the nonprofit support organization for San Francisco Botanical Garden and is responsible for education, visitor experience, fundraising, curation, and many other functions. Positions listed here are with San Francisco Botanical Garden Society.
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Horticulture positions are managed by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. Recruitment for those positions is administered by the San Francisco Department of Human Resources. More information on jobs with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department can be found here
Director of Leadership Giving
The San Francisco Botanical Garden Society seeks a Director of Leadership Giving (DLG). Reporting to the Director of Development and joining a Development team of 5 staff, the DLG will lead major and planned giving programs and capital campaigns for the Garden. At the end of 2019, the Garden is launching the public phase of a $6.7M fundraising campaign to build a new nursery facility. By mid-2020, the Garden will raise the final $2M needed to break ground through a $2M challenge match. Over the next year, the DLG’s primary focus will be on the success of this effort working with the Executive Director and campaign committee. Once the nursery campaign is completed, additional capital campaigns are likely to occur and require at least 50% of the DLG’s time. The other 50% will be dedicated to donors giving $10,000 and more and to developing a robust planned giving program.
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Interim Assistant Librarian
The Interim Assistant Librarian will support the Associate Librarian in managing the Library while the Library Director is on maternity leave. The Interim Assistant Librarian serves the general public of all ages and skill levels and assists with collection development and management, including assuming primary responsibility of managing the periodicals collection.
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Youth Education Internships
San Francisco Botanical Garden is looking for energetic, enthusiastic young people to work with children in the Garden. We offer a several paid internships for both teens and young adults interested in exploring careers in outdoor education, environmental studies, and horticulture. Positions involve working with children up to 10 years old participating in group and family programs in the Garden. Interns also spend time helping to maintain and develop the Children’s Garden, a space dedicated to children’s enthusiasm to explore the natural world.
Teen Interns support the Bean Sprouts Family Days program on Saturday afternoons, April through October, as well as Acorn to Oak and Garden Explorers on summer weekdays.
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Garden Explorers Teen Internship
Adult Interns support Acorn to Oak summer programs, Bean Sprouts Family Days and Teen Green Team on Saturdays, and the school year Children’s Garden Multi-visit Program
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Visitor Experience Lead Associate
San Francisco Botanical Garden’s Visitor Services team is the face of the Garden welcoming, orienting, and assisting Garden visitors in a friendly and positive manner. This includes efficiently facilitating sales and transactions and graciously answering inquires for information about the Garden’s collections, programs, and other associated offerings. Our philosophy is to encourage every visitor to return and engage with the opportunities the Garden offers, including becoming members, donors and volunteers. The Lead Agent’s prime objective is to support the Visitor Services Agents in all aspects of operations. The Lead Agent will seamlessly lead the team and maintain general phone and email communications when the Visitor Services Supervisor is offsite.
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Visitor Experience Associate
San Francisco Botanical Garden is looking for an energetic, friendly, plant-loving, and knowledgeable person to work in the Visitor Experience department at San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park. The Visitor Experience Associate's prime objective is to help open and close the Garden; greet visitors in a friendly and positive manner; efficiently facilitate sales and transactions; and correctly answer inquires for information about the Garden's collections, programs, and other associated offerings.
Weekend availability required.