Community Garden Manager

| Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses

Location: Brockwell Park, Lambeth, South London

Salary: £30,000 – £35,000 per annum pro rata, depending on experience

Contract: 12-month fixed term, with potential for renewal

Hours: 22.5–30 hours per week (60–80% FTE)

Closing date: 5pm, Monday 21 September 2026

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Job Description

Lead a Thriving Community Garden in the Heart of Lambeth

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses is looking for an experienced and people-focused Community Garden Manager to help lead its vibrant one-acre community growing space in Brockwell Park.

The site includes an orchard, demonstration gardens, a walled herb garden, two large greenhouses and Brockwell Barn, providing a unique setting where people can learn, volunteer, grow food and connect with nature.

This role is ideal for someone with strong horticultural knowledge who is equally passionate about supporting volunteers, developing people’s skills and creating inclusive green spaces.

About Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses is a community garden and registered charity based in the heart of Brockwell Park.

A small staff team works alongside a committed community of volunteers to deliver:

• Garden volunteering
• School visits
• Family activities
• Courses and workshops
• Community events
• Environmental education

Their work helps people learn about organic gardening, food growing, biodiversity, wildlife and the natural environment, while creating opportunities for people from across the community to come together.

About the Role

As Community Garden Manager, you’ll combine practical horticulture with volunteer leadership and community engagement.

You’ll play a key role in helping volunteers develop their skills and confidence while ensuring the gardens remain productive, welcoming and well managed.

This role would particularly suit someone who enjoys both hands-on gardening and working with people.

What You’ll Bring

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses is looking for someone with:

• Strong horticultural knowledge and practical gardening experience
• Confidence supporting and developing volunteers
• Ability to help people build gardening skills and progress into greater responsibility
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• A collaborative and inclusive approach
• Enthusiasm for community gardening, nature and environmental learning

You don’t need to feel equally strong in every area. Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses particularly values self-awareness, willingness to learn and a genuine commitment to developing your skills.

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to:

• Lead horticultural activity within a well-established community garden
• Support volunteers to develop practical green skills and confidence
• Work within a diverse and welcoming community environment
• Contribute to organic gardening, food growing and biodiversity
• Help people connect with nature and their local green space
• Develop your own career within community horticulture and green-space management

How to Apply

Please submit:

• A one-page cover letter
• Your CV
• A completed Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form

In your cover letter, explain how your experience relates to the role. Applicants are also encouraged to identify an area where they would like to develop further and explain how they are working to strengthen that skill.

📧 Email applications to:
rebecca@brockwellgreenhouses.org.uk

Deadline: 5pm on Monday 21 September 2026

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to interview during the week commencing 28 September 2026.

The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and encourages applications even where candidates do not meet every requirement.