Employment Opportunities
Farm Assistant
Applications for 2026 Farm Assistants are currently being accepted.
We are seeking two individuals with a passion for agriculture, education, and the environment to join us as farm assistants for the 2025 growing season. The assistants will work closely with our farm manager to grow a wide array of vegetables in our one-acre no-till field, install and maintain permaculture and pollinator garden spaces to our upper campus area including a food forest, and to support our AgroEcology for Resilient Communities (ARC) project in its many aims. The Full-Season farm assistants will also work closely with our Student Farm Apprentices, our education team, and volunteers that may join in the summer.
Learn more here and apply here.
sTUDENT FARM APPRENTICE
Applications for 2026 Student Farm Apprentices are currently being accepted.
Student farm apprentices will get their hands dirty, spend lots of time outdoors, and develop useful skills while learning all about growing vegetables on a small-scale farm, and building and caring for permaculture education gardens and growing food forest and forest garden projects.
Learn more here and apply here.
Ecology Educators
Applications for 2026 Ecology Educators are currently being accepted.
The Ecology School is seeking applications for our Spring educator positions. We are looking for staff to join us for our full March-November timeline (Spring, Summer, and Fall), but also accepting applications for Spring only. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until positions are filled.
Read the full job description here.
Apply here.
Cook
Applications for our cook position are now being accepted. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
The Ecology School is seeking multiple individuals to join our Culinary team. We are a scratch kitchen, that utilizes our farm fresh produce, and local products when available and when budgets allow. The Cook position will work with and under the guidance of the Operations Manager / Chef. The cooks will lead a team in preparing wholesome and appealing Family-style or buffet meals from scratch, practicing proper food safety techniques in handling, organization, storage, and maintenance of supplies, and the overall cleanliness of the kitchen and Dining Commons for between 10 and 150 people.
To read the full job description and to apply, click here.
Alumni
Our Educator alumni is a community who are bonded by the shared experience of teaching at The Ecology School. More affectionately known as FOAM (Fantastic Order of Alumni Masters), this group of 360+ individuals come from all over the world to spend a semester (or two, or three, or four…) bringing energy, fun, and laughter to not only our program participants, but also to each other. Since 1999, passionate nature lovers, environmental stewards, and experiential education seekers from a variety of backgrounds sojourn to Maine, finding the joy empowering others to make connections with nature and to create an experience unlike any other at The Ecology School.
The Ecology School is enormously proud of our teaching staff and deeply grateful for the time, energy, enthusiasm, and heart they contribute to The Ecology School. The FOAM Network was created to help support Educators after leaving The Ecology School as well as create an easy avenue for Educator alumni to stay connected. FOAM is a vibrant community of former and current educators and staff who share curriculum ideas, jobs, friendships, and even marriages and babies! The Ecology School holds a once early FOAM Summit where FOAMers are invited back to campus to reconnect, network with other FOAMers, and develop professionally.
Click here to learn more about our FOAM Network.
