Marketing & Landscape Admin Assistant

Are you passionate about healing our planet? Would you like to play a key role in a top-notch team?

Our nationally-acclaimed design firm seeks a bright, creative Marketer & Garden/Admin Assistant to work directly with our company principals. An ideal fit is someone who is creative, horticulturally savvy, highly efficient, and brilliant with words/marketing/computers. (Eco-minded marketers or aspiring landscape designers take note!) It’s a rare career opportunity: you’ll learn from our 25+ years of expertise in sustainability/landscape design, plus tap into some amazing connections and projects. We need a pro-active team-mate who embraces our vision and is dedicated to helping us take our current successes and expand mindfully into the future.

Would you enjoy a variety of roles - technical and creative, solo work and team, indoors and outdoors – and the opportunity to learn directly from leaders in sustainability? Would you like to participate in the installation of magazine-quality landscapes? Are you excited to use your diverse talents, creativity, and positive attitude in a collaborate environment? Then this job is for you.

The Salsbury-Schweyer, Inc mission is “healing people, place, and planet” through landscapes that are both consciously designed and ecologically responsible. Our projects are diverse; small and large, private and public, but primarily residential. It’s a small but busy office, requiring you to be detail-oriented, efficient, and well-organized.

Full-time or Part-time. We especially value diverse talent - someone who brings broad skills in areas like horticulture, marketing, writing, photography, video editing, sustainability and/or construction. While the position cannot be done remotely, some flexibility of schedule may be possible.

Requirements include:

• Effective writing, speaking, presenting and active listening skills
• Passion for plants and gardening, and for our company mission
• Able and willing to physically work on landscape projects, including planting and gardening
• Creative, adaptable, and familiar with current marketing trends, including online, social media, etc.
• Admin & tech-savvy: expertise with Microsoft Office, research, & sourcing
• Artistry in Presentations: Ads, Photoshop, InDesign, Video editing
• Data analysis, critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making
• Excellent collaboration and teamwork skills
• Project management skills, including costing and deadline management
• Comfortable in high-pressure and fast-paced environments
• Marketing, Horticulture, and/or Landscape Design background is ideal, but not essential.

If you are sharp, multi-talented, and want to share in a creative, constantly-evolving, family environment that will allow you to bring your best to every project, you may be exactly who we’re looking for. Talk to us

About Salsbury-Schweyer, Inc:

For 25 years our small, innovative firm has been creating environments that are ecological, mindful, and healing. Salsbury-Schweyer, Inc has been the recipient of numerous international design awards, including APLD International’s “Leadership in Landscape Sustainability” honor.

We have been featured in numerous books and highly regarded publications (including Fine Gardening, Luxury, Wall Street Journal, American Gardener, Permaculture Design Magazine …) Recognizing that education is essential to positive change, our principals are active advocates for regenerative design through writing, speaking, and professional/community education.

Salsbury-Schweyer, Inc is located in the funky Highland Square neighborhood of Akron, Ohio.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $15.00 - $23.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Application Question(s):

• Explain your interest in sustainability, this firm, and/or this position. And also, why you would you be a good fit for this multi-role job?

Education:

• Associate (Preferred)

Experience:

• Office: 3 years (Required)
• Horticulture: 2 years (Required)
• Marketing: 1 year (Required)
• Graphic design: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person