From: Sally Richardson, Volunteer Manager
Naples Botanical Garden
4820 Bayshore Drive
Naples, FL 34112
239-325-1932
Subject: Job Description for Federal Work Study Student
Date: June 25, 2013
Job Description:
Selected student will schedule groups of 5 – 10 FGCU students to come to Naples Botanical Garden twice a
week from September through May. * Selected student will volunteer alongside the group each time they
are here. The work-study student will communicate the weekly schedule in a timely manner and work
closely with the Volunteer Manager at the Naples Botanical Garden.
The work-study student and the students volunteering must be able to perform horticulture work:
weeding, potting, mulching, pruning, raking, planting, moving plant debris, etc. The hours of volunteering
will be 8am – 1pm during the week and 9am – 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
Additional Information:
The work-study student should be interested in Vegetable Gardening, sustainable environments, Botany,
planting beds, and all things botanical. It is possible and highly probably that the work-study student will be
trained to oversee the student groups in certain areas of the Garden and to be able to work independently
of Garden staff in this volunteer leadership role.
The work-study student will need excellent communications skills; must be able to understand “who needs
to know what” and must communicate in a timely manner. Student must be able to express
himself/herself clearly and precisely in front of a group, in email messages, by phone and in one on one
conversations. Schedules will be kept in excel and names will be spelled correctly and all information will
be correct, updated and current throughout the time frame.
FGCU students who are involved with the FGCU Food Forest are a primary target group to tap as a resource
for volunteer help at Naples Botanical Garden, so the work-study student might want to be involved with
the Food Forest on a regular basis.
The work-study student should be resourceful in recruitment of student volunteers and forming car pools
or other means of transportation to get the FGCU students from campus to Garden and back again.
*All FGCU students are required to accumulate volunteer hours to graduate. All FGCU Juniors are required
to take a course called “Colloquium” that requires 10 “environmental experience” hours.