Organization Description:
Naples Botanical Garden is a 170-acre world-class paradise, featuring the flora and cultures of the tropics and sub- tropics including Brazil, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and Florida. The Garden's mission is to connect people and plants through display, education, conservation, and applied science. The Garden has beautifully restored native habitats, cultivated gardens, walking trails, and public programming that offer education and enjoyment for people of all ages. Naples Botanical Garden is a 501(c)3 organization.
Position Summary: The Nursery Operations Manager oversees all production of plants in the Garden’s nurseries and off-site nursery operations. With the opening of the Garden’s Evenstad Horticulture Campus, the role will need to develop and implement all new growing protocols, working closely with Collections experts across the Garden as well as Horticulture Director, Horticulture Maintenance Director, and Facilities Director.
The Nursery Operations Manager will maintain all of Garden’s grow spaces and greenhouses, schedule and maintain all collection, rotational plants, finishing dates, and programmatic plantings, and direct Greenhouse Lead of what propagations needed to schedule for Greenhouse operations. Direct nursery team to maintain collections within the nursery and backup collections for the Garden based on Collections Policy and overseen by direction from Garden Leadership.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities: In this role, the Nursery Operations Manager will manage the grow operations for both Horticulture and Conservation teams, including overseeing and training nursery staff, ordering materials or coordinating orders with Horticulture Admin and track budget priorities for the Team. Collaborate with IPM to track pest control and fertilization schedules and respond to Naples Botanical Garden staff requests. The Nursery Operations Manager will also be required to grow and maintain trees, shrubs, flowers and all collection plants. Ultimate destination for plant material will be the Naples Botanical Garden, Collier County projects, and partnerships with partners throughout the Caribbean. To ensure success, the Nursery Operations Manager should be organized, have excellent managerial skills, and a passion for horticulture, and should be able to maintain a healthy nursery ecosystem and ensure the success of the Evenstad Horticulture Campus.
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Benefits:
Naples Botanical Garden is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Garden has a long-standing policy of employment and advancement based solely upon qualifications to perform the essential elements of a position without regard to age, creed, gender, national origin or ancestry, race, color, religion, veteran status, pregnancy, marital status, HIV status, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, handicap or mental or physical disability.
Salary Description
$60,600 - $65,000