Opportunities
Admin and Accounts Assistant (filling in for extended periods)
Our current admin superstar is taking extended leave and we need someone to seamlessly slot in while she is away. There will be the possibility of ongoing work as our business continues to grow.
- XERO account reconciling and setting up payments
- Ordering stock and arranging logistics
- Updating pricing POS
- Wholesale business logistics, ordering & compliance
- Sales support with growth into further responsibilities
Beef business wholesale logistics and relationships guru
If you don’t like the goalposts moving, change the playing field!
This is an opportunity to make “Higher Eating” the norm. Understanding the health benefits grassfed beef produced whilst improving ecological outcomes is one thing, actually doing it is another!
You would be leading the charge for Nutrient dense, DNA backed, Organically Certified, Pasture Fed production by independent family businesses to make a more resilient food system.
On the doorstep of 3M local customers, no-one else can do what we do, where we do it. We have production capacity for 3-4X our current sales, and we need you to get us there.
Transparency and traceability are our hallmarks, and we are now in a position to grow K2 Organic Beef by exploring value-adding opportunities, decreasing costs and waste and increasing sales.
- Monthly production planning with Livestock manager (livestock decisions are made by the livestock manager – your role is to communicate customer demand for planning purposes)
- Booking & liaising with butcher on cutups (based on customer requirements)
- Weekly order compiling & fulfilling including logistics
- Compliance including Organic and Foodsafe requirements
- Relationship management & market development
- Opportunity identification and scoping- packaging, value adding
- Butchering or meat processing skills or knowledge beneficial
- Budgeting for growth to plan production 3 years in advance
Omnichannel E-Commerce Platform allrounder
Can an online presence inspire real change for a better future? Can it make the purchase process enjoyable for the buyer?
Can it inform and build loyalty beyond “Likes” and “Clicks” into actual profit all the time making change. Can it automate the boring things so that we have more time for the good stuff?
- Design and populate new platform to drive online sales
- Improve customer experience
- Video and photographic promotional content
- Harness SEO
- Marketing to funnel customer engagement
- Integrate logistics
- Discover and actualise systems improvements
- Plan & Budget for exponential growth
Store Manager
This is the big one and you may come from personal growth in any of the other positions.
Perhaps you have the skills and passion right now to hit the ground running – but remember we are looking for more than an employee, we need a growth partner for the long term.
Even if you have managed rural supply businesses or worked in management of related fields in the past, this one is tricky.
Products to change the world. Profits with morality and ethics that must keep one eye on the bigger prize- a better food system. We need someone with demonstrated skills wanting to have a positive impact. Possibility exists for equity share for the right person.
- Grow consistent sales
- Build brand loyalty based on relationships and reliability
- Streamline processes and ensure accountability
- Oversee omnichannel expansion
- Budget for profit
- Manage a team
INTERNSHIPS
Learn and contribute to a business “walking the talk”.
CERTIFIED ORGANIC REGENERATIVE FARM – RURAL STORE - EVENTS
Commitment 3-12 months.
This is a unique opportunity to combine many rural internships into one. You will become integral to daily operations across our grassfed beef cattle farms using management software to track operations including (often) daily cattle moves. You will learn to handle herds of cattle with LSS techniques, you’ll be responsible for electric fencing, waters (including solar pumping maintenance), mineral trailers, organic parasite management and homeopathics for your cattle.
You’ll have infrastructure and revegetation projects to plan including NSF contouring and Syntropics plantings and projects to execute on farm. You will also then be involved in a vertically integrated beef business to understand all aspects of Pasture fed, Organic production from Conception to Consumption.
Unlike other internships, the Farm Store adds another dimension as this upstream retail business is the first of its type to operate soley in the Organic and Regenerative farm input supply space. Want more? The farm store encompasses a large commercial kitchen and events / dining area where hospitality and food value-adding opportunities can be explored at the numerous training and food events we host.
This is NOT a paid position and the minimum commitment is 3-months. Full-time food and board including all gas & electricity with healthy Organic produce and groceries will be provided along with training and practical skills development in exchange for 6 hours per day 5 days per week (30 hours per week). In addition you’ll be expected to maintain your own (shared) farmhouse and garden. Other interns and staff may share the residence and household tasks, or you may have the place to yourself.
Enjoy being close to nature with forest walking tracks close-by, creeks and rivers a plenty and amenities like a public swimming pool, pub and small shops within walking distance of farms. You’ll be supplied a work vehicle however it is farm registered so trips to the Beach (Noosa) are better taken via the Sun Bus service.
Interns must be accountable and self-motivated, computer literate, proactive and interested in natural systems. At times you will work as part of a team and at times alone. Tasks are varied and pursuing related projects within our context is encouraged.
Smokers and Vegans cannot be accommodated.
Apply by sending a message to KANDANGA FARM STORE.