Join the Team

Position Title:
Producer / Editor

Location:
Preference for in-person or hybrid; on-site at Greenhorns office in Pembroke, Maine. Partially remote over time but must live within driving distance of Pembroke for onboarding and regular in-person collaboration

Reports to:
Severine Welcome, Director

Job Category:
Contract, project based, average 10-20 hours per week, with room to grow

Employment Dates:
Flexible; preference given to candidates who have experience with non profit communications / grassroots publishing / media / film, and who can onboard in the off-season (before March 2025)

Pay:
$30–40 per hour, depending on experience

Overview:
Greenhorns seeks a talented editor and producer to support our media projects, which promote regenerative farming, local food systems, land+ water stewardship and enticing the youth!  These media projects include: publications, printed materials (poster and book development), exhibit design, local promotions/ advertisements (print and online), interpretive signage and local history, curriculum development, agritourist/visitor information, short educational videos, social media campaigns, press releases, community organizing, and pitch / philanthropy copy to support the development director.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate has:

• Experience in one or more of the following: communications, film production, art, architecture, journalism, community organizing, and/or digital project management.
• A background in one or more of the following: natural resource studies, sustainable farming, ecology, conservation, historic preservation, Waldorf / alternative education, anthropology, field studies, and/or natural history. 
• A talent for managing group-projects with multiple actors. 
• Ability to work within a small rural town context, and with non-tech-savvy folks
• Prompt, polite, duty-bound, easily inspired. 
• Able to drive to Pembroke to work with our media, onboard with our organizational systems, and then relate to ongoing projects within the known sphere or knowledge on a remote basis. Able to return for regular collaboration.
• Ability to improvise and work with archival materials, saturated colors, abstraction, satire, joy, deep reverence for the living and non human world, and dark historical themes, and on deadline!

 
Key Responsibilities:

• Research, writing, and editing for Greenhorns media projects
• Project manage select Greenhorns media projects
• Collaborate with other creative contractors: graphic designers, video editors, public relations
• Populate content to online avenues: WordPress, Social Media, ReadyMag, YouTube, Vimeo
• Edit and re-work notes and content provided by Executive Director for various media projects
• Manage permissions, release forms, and other contracts related to media projects
• File management and digital archiving of media assets and projects
• Promotion / dissemination of media projects to appropriate avenues: news outlets, social media
• Create and improve Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable duties
• Write and/or edit quarterly e-blasts sent via Mailchimp to 12,000+ subscribers
• Draft and contribute to public-facing documents for our various programs: i.e. welcome handbooks, applications
• Draft and contribute to press releases and advertising copy, for traditional media outlets (MOFGA, Quoddy Tides, Bangor Daily News, Edible Maine, etc.)

 
Example Projects:

• Earthlive.tv Seaweed episode: Research, writing, and editing for Patagonia-funded online learning experience
• Profiles of local Washington County Food Producers for Eat Downeast! Campaign: To be published Spring 2025: interview and create profile text for content that will be shared on social media, eatdowneast.com, and run as a recurring series in various local print publications
• River Trail Interpretive Panels: Research, writing, and in-person archival research with Pembroke Historical Society, for historical/cultural/environmental interpretive panels to be installed on new public-access trail
• Mailchimp e-blasts: Writing, editing, and layout for quarterly newsletters sent to our large mailing list
• Short films: for Greenhorns sub projects / partnerships / collaborations with Artists in Residence

 
Qualifications:

• Excellent written communication skills
• Excellent research skills
• Willingness to write for unique / new media platforms
• Experience with Google Drive / Google Workspace
• Experience or familiarity with social media (Facebook, Instagram), traditional
• media (newspapers, magazines), and public relations.
• Experience with or willingness to learn newsletter platform Mailchimp
• Excellent collaboration skills: with other creative contributors, as well as community stakeholders
• Experience with Content Management Systems (CMS) such as WordPress and ReadyMag

 
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should apply through the Greenhorns 2025 Job Application Google Form, which asks for a resume and cover letter detailing relevant experience. Applications will be accepted until a qualified candidate is selected.

Please email [email protected] with any questions.

Position Title:
Seaweed Commons Coordinator

Location:
Preference for someone who is based either in Alaska, Maine, or the Pacific Northwest, where U.S. aquaculture, mariculture and wild harvests are based, so as to be able to join physically with our network partners in learning events and conferences.

Reports to:
Seaweed Commons Steering Committee

Job Category:
Contract, part-time, ongoing.

Employment Dates:
Flexible; preference given to candidates who can start immediately

Pay:
$25/hour

Seaweed Commons is hiring for a part-time, remote coordinator position. Please review seaweedcommons.org for context before applying.

Qualifications:

• a familiarity with seaweed ecology and policy context either in the US or elsewhere
• a keen interest in working within community context and supporting local actors with needed materials and support for local actions.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should apply through the Greenhorns: 2025 Job Application Google Form, which asks for a resume and cover letter detailing relevant experience. Applications will be accepted until a qualified candidate is selected.

Internship Description:
Civic Halls Program, PHASE 2, 2025
 
What:
A seasonal internship with the Maine Civic Halls Initiative, a joint project of Greenhorns, the Friends of Liberty Hall, and Maine Preservation, building on the work initiated in 2022. This role is to both administrate the gaining of funds for hall restorations, and support the community of hall stewards.
 
Purpose:


Continuing the work of the Civic Halls project based on the findings of our 2022-23 survey. This work will consist of supporting ‘Hall stewards” who hold care of community infrastructure in Washington and Hancock County Maine. Last year’s work was to survey and study the current use and users of civic halls by fraternal organizations and community groups— this survey work is now moving statewide. Meanwhile, our existing community of stewards have clearly articulated their need for support with “development” that is raising the money and coordinating the physical preservation work on roofs, gutters, sills, kitchens, etc. The challenges faced by the Downeast Halls are both structural and social. The buildings themselves, and the communities of practice who operate from these halls are both imperilled– one of the big areas of work is identifying new sources of support for needed repairs: USDA Rural Development? Congressionally Directed Spending/ Earmark? Labor Department/ EPA grant? 
Our stakeholders have spoken clearly about their priorities, which is gaining support with grants/technical assistance, networking on topics of interest such as insurance and recruitment,  as well as sharing ‘ best practice’ on programming formats and inclusion of new constituencies. Of course along with all of this are the day to day practicalities of keeping an old hall going, and maintaining the social ties within our rural communities.
 
Qualifications:

• Interest in community organizing/development
• Care for rural communities and their needs
• Student of history/anthropology/regional planning
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, good with people
• Cultural competence and the ability to work in rural areas
• Ability to synthesize community needs into program descriptions
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, and to successfully advance multiple project areas and to  integrate this work with relevant partners
• Interest in sustaining the patrimony of tangible building knowledge embodied in these halls, many of them built by shipbuilders and local craftsmen

 
Major Task areas:

• Keep running the Statewide Survey
• Check ins with all the Hall Stewards
• Update/ Compile funding information/ dates  for the ‘civic halls resource list’
• Update website and manage digital outreach
• Make and sustain  relationships with key institutions and partners
• Ongoing conversations with Hall Stewards and projects with energy, identifying places for action
• Facilitate funding requests for ‘re-granting’ program development
• Preferred Skills & Experience:
• Experience and interest in one or more of the following areas: community-based planning, sustainability and resiliency, architecture and urban design, historic preservation, real estate, and economic development
• Experience historic preservation, community development, grantwriting
• Facilitation of small groups, supporting community visioning or charrettes

 
Requirements:


There is no education requirement for this internship, but applicants should possess a demonstrated interest in or experience with related subject areas such as history, anthropology, sociology, historic preservation, regional/urban planning, or other relevant fields.
 
Reports to:


Maine Civic Halls Initiative Advisory Committee, who will facilitate

• Rigorous onboarding, methodology, and work plan review
• Weekly check in meetings and progress reports thereafter

 
Pay and Remuneration:


This internship pays $27/hr for 10-20 hours a week as a fixed 10 week contract with a 1099 administered by Maine Preservation. Applicants can consider remote work, but must attend a mandatory orientation in person. The intern may choose to accept the offer of subsidized housing and food allowance at the Greenhorns campus in Pembroke, ME during all or part of the work period. This consists of a dormitory room at Grey Lodge, 12 Little Falls Rd in Pembroke, and access to laundry, organic food supplies, and the Reversing Hall agrarian library collection.
 
To Apply:


The application deadline is January 30, or open until the position is filled.

To apply, please fill out this Google Form, which includes:

• a resume;
• a cover letter; and
• a work sample that demonstrates relevant skills (such as a writing sample, meeting or educational materials created, and/or excerpt of a research paper, or portfolio, 10 pages/5 MB maximum).

About Greenhorns: For more information, visit greenhorns.org
About Friends of Liberty Hall: For more information, visit libertyhallmaine.org
About Maine Preservation: For more information visit mainepreservation.org.
No phone calls please.