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Req #: 242559

Department: UW BOTANIC GARDENS

Appointing Department Web Address: https://botanicgardens.uw.edu

Posting Date: 01/13/2025

Closing Info: Closes On 02/02/2025

Salary: $21.14 - $23.22 per hour

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website,click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-summary-classified-staff-greater-than-half-time-20220908_a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

The UW Botanic Gardens has an outstanding opportunity for a Temporary UW Botanic Gardens Horticulture Intern to join their team!

Under the direct supervision of the Grounds Supervisor 1 and the direction and safety training of UW Botanic Gardens horticulture staff, perform skilled horticulture tasks requiring knowledge of cultivation and maintenance of UWBG plant collections, gardens and grounds.

Primary horticulture programs and tasks include:

• Plant collections maintenance and development • Plant health care • Arboriculture • Planting • New plant care and irrigation • Mapping and plant records

The 320 acres that make up the UWBG includes the 230-acre Washington Park Arboretum (WPA) and the 90-acre Center for Urban Horticulture (CUH).

JOB DESCRIPTION

Under the direction and safety training of UW Botanic Gardens horticulture staff, perform skilled horticulture tasks requiring knowledge of cultivation and maintenance of UWBG plant collections, gardens and grounds, including:

• Weed management : hand, mechanical, may assist in herbicide application; • Soil management : cultivation, topdressing with organic mulches, may assist remediation of compacted and poorly drained soils; • Mulching : applying of wood chip mulch to landscape beds. • Fertilization : applying granular and liquid fertilizers. • Irrigation and New Plant Care : setup and operation of manual sprinklers and hand-watering of new and existing plant collections, may assist in irrigation repairs and scheduling controllers, introduction to MAXICOM and other new plant care duties; • Pruning : properly pruning plant collections and native flora; • Planting and transplanting : installation of container and balled and burlapped trees and shrubs, may assist BB transplanting of trees, and may plant seed and transplants for seasonal color; (limited planting during summer) • Plant Display Maintenance : sweeping, raking, mulching, edging, grooming, debris removal of display beds and containers; • Application of horticultural chemicals : application of herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides and other products as prescribed by UWBG plant health care specialist; • Brush clearing : removal of woody invasive or other unwanted plants, includes follow-up with invasive plant control techniques and site restoration; • Assist in large tree work : may provide ground support for tree pruning and removal and chipping of brush; • Hardscapes : may install and maintain interpretive signs, benches, fencing, rock work, trails and stairs; • Landscape renovation : site preparation including soil and plant installation, trail work, rock installation and the ability to interpret design drawings and details; • Use of manual tools and equipment : rakes, hand edger, loppers, shovels, wheelbarrows, weeding forks, hoes, pruning shears, weed wrenches and weed-torches, etc.; • Operate power and motorized equipment : Operator safety training will be provided before use! Examples include; weed trimmers, chain saws, backpack blowers, tillers, mowers, small trucks, utility vehicles, pesticide sprayers, tractors, skid-steer/back-hoe, brush chipper, stump-grinder, etc.; • Record Keeping & Mapping : training provided to submit plant condition, dead plant reports and maintain other horticulture records; and ability to use ArcMap software for mapping plant collections.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Physical ability to do required work.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

• Intern needs to commit to a 3-month appointment, working approx. 20 hours per week. • Must be currently enrolled in an academic institution offering credit for horticulture (or equivalent) internships AND institution provides general liability insurance and indemnification for use of power equipment and other higher risk tasks. Our local community college horticulture programs: South Seattle College, Edmonds College, and Lake Washington Institute of Technology, have these in place with UW. • Willingness to work outside in all kinds of weather.

Application Process:

The application process for UW positions may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter, and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.