Student Farm Assistant (Hourly)

Job Description

Assists farm manager in completing tasks for the Agricultural Sciences Sustainable Student Farm. Performs farm duties in support of faculty, staff, and/or student efforts, including planting, feeding livestock, and assisting with farm stands.

Maintains farm tracking systems and logs. Operates farm equipment such as tillers and weed eaters.

• Farm procedures and practices
• Customer service techniques

Skills

• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships
• Maintaining an established work schedule
• Effectively using interpersonal and communication skills
• Effectively using organizational and planning skills
• Entering data, maintaining files, and performing other clerical duties
• Effective customer-orientation when working with a multicultural population

Technology Skills

• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software
• May also use social media, work with desktop publishing, and update webpages

Required Work Experience

As required.

Required Education

As required.

Physical Requirements

• Work is routinely performed in a standard farm environment
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, kneeling, pushing, and pulling
• Occasional lifting of objects up to 50 pounds

Safety

Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Pay Rate

$23.00/Hour

Up to 19 hours per week

Number Of Openings

2

Job Posting Close Date

August 13, 2026

Claire Act

If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting. Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information. For direct access to the current Annual Security Report, visit www.austincc.edu/asr. You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer (CleryComplianceOfficer@austincc.edu). For an overview, see ACC's Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.