Assist Sprouts Cooking Club’s Event Manager at our weekend in-restaurant classes and birthday parties

Time Commitment: Weekend events only, up to 4/hours an event

Description: This is the perfect opportunity for full-time students and professionals to give back to the community. See first-hand the inner core of a non-profit while hanging with local chefs, cooking with kids, and eating delicious food! As an Event Assistant, you will be assisting our Event Manager at our in-restaurant classes.

Requirements: No formal cooking experience is required – just a love for working with kids and trying new recipes!

Capture high-quality, professional photos from Sprouts Cooking Club programming to be used for marketing purposes, website, and outward communication.

Time Commitment: Up to 4 hours/week including shooting and editing

Description: This is the perfect opportunity for full-time students and professionals to gain experience and add to their portfolio. We rely on high-quality, professional photo documentation to express our narrative to our community. The photos will be sent to the chefs/restaurants participating in our program and the parents that have sent their kids to our classes. This is a great way to get your name out as a photographer and to be credited and published in online articles, magazines, and blogs.

Requirements: Experience in photography (as a hobby or professionally).  Please submit your blog, portfolio, or any relevant materials.

In-office position that focuses on marketing, operations, and office support.

Time Commitment: 10-15 hours/week, flexible schedule

Description: We’re looking for highly organized and enthusiastic volunteers to work with us in our co-working space in Oakland.  Responsibilities will include donation solicitation, social media management, and general office support duties.

Requirements: Strong organizational skills, familiarity and comfort with social media (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook), interest in community development.

Job Description:
Sprouts is looking for dedicated community members with a green thumb that would like to adopt two gardening beds at Sprouts’ organic garden-kitchen space at Chaparral House. The work would include tending to the beds and crops and keeping Sprouts’ outdoor kitchen space weed-free. You would be able to harvest and enjoy 70% of the items you plant! Throughout the summer, Sprouts gardening volunteer would have the opportunity to run 60 minute gardening exercises with Sprouts’ students, ages 7-12 years old. This is a unique opportunity to gain valuable skills all the while creating an educational and thriving space for diverse Bay Area youth. Former gardening experience is required.

Sample Tasks:

• Soliciting seed and starter donations
• Planting starters for your garden
• Assisting in an orientation with Sprouts’ garden partners at Chaparral House
• Teaching a gardening workshop to Bay Area youth
• Pulling small weeds from Sprouts 100 square foot kitchen
• Emailing Sprouts’ culinary director with an update on produce that is ripe
• Submitting a timesheet with your total hours
• Planting herbs for youth to use during the summer camps
• Visiting the garden multiple times a week to water, weed and monitor crops

Position Details:

• Application is on a rolling basis.
• Position would last nine months and end at the end of the growing season. For avid, local and successful gardeners the position length can be extended.
• A minimum of three hour weekly commitment is required.

How to Apply:
We can’t wait to review your application! Please send the following to sprouts@sproutscookingclub.org:

• Resume
• Cover letter that explains why your skill set, interests/goals, and past experiences are pertinent to the position

Share your culinary passion with the next generation of chefs!

Do you LOVE to cook? 
Want to give back to your community?
Join Sprouts as an After School Volunteer Assistant!

Sprouts is looking for culinary and nutritional enthusiasts to assist with our after school culinary classes for local school children!

You’ll get to work hands-on with our energetic youth chefs.  

No formal cooking experience is required – just a love for working with kids and trying new recipes!

Dates Available and Time Commitment:
Mondays, September 9th – December 16th, Hayes Valley, SF 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Thursdays, September 12th – December 19th, Hayes Valley, SF 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Fridays, Oakland, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Wednesdays, September 11th – November 13th San Jose 2:45-5:15 p.m.

This ‘n That
1.5 hour classes
Class size range from 9-12 kids
Ages range between 7-12
Classes Take Place In Schools

How to Apply:
We can’t wait to review your application! Please send the following to sprouts@sproutscookingclub.org:

• Resume
• Cover letter that explains why your skill set, interests/goals, and past experiences are pertinent to the position