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Lettuce Grow
TITLE: Eastern Oregon Educational Coordinator
HOURS: 18.75 hours per week
WAGE: $22.47 to start/ $29.34 effective July 1, 2025
BENEFITS:Â Partial BenefitsÂ
For the first time in our history, we’re hiring a dedicated educator to bring our Lettuce Grow program to life in Eastern Oregon. As the Eastern Oregon Educational Coordinator, you’ll facilitate garden-based classes in correctional facilities, support greenhouse growing and seasonal planting, and serve as a vital bridge between sites, communities, and our Portland-based team. You’ll teach hands-on horticulture with Adults in Custody (AIC), deepen local partnerships, and help us grow a decentralized, justice-oriented food system from the inside out. This is a people-facing, garden-growing, barrier-breaking role for someone deeply connected to Eastern Oregon’s land and people, and committed to food justice, healing, and transformation.
Rolling applications and interviews. This application will be closed when the position is filled.
How to Apply:  Send a one-page cover letter, video, or audio clip expressing your interest and qualifications to Lettuce Grow Director Rima Green at [email protected].Â
Lettuce Grow
TITLE: Coffee Creek Correctional Coordinator
HOURS: 18.75 hours per week
WAGE: $29.34/hour
BENEFITS:Â Partial BenefitsÂ
We’re hiring a new team member to bring our Lettuce Grow program to life at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon’s only women’s prison. As the Coffee Creek Correctional Coordinator, you’ll teach hands-on garden-based classes with Adults in Custody (AIC), coordinate seasonal growing and harvesting, manage volunteers, prep class materials, and handle site logistics. This role is part educator, part grower, part community connector—and fully rooted in food justice, healing, and transformation.
We encourage applicants of all backgrounds, especially those with lived experience and deep connections to our mission.
Rolling applications and interviews. Position open until filled.How to Apply:  Send a one-page cover letter, video, or audio clip expressing your interest and qualifications to Lettuce Grow Director Rima Green at [email protected].Â

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