Learning and Digital Projects Lead

Job Title : Learning and Digital Projects Lead

Reports to : Operations Manager

About Garden to Table

We empower tamarikito grow, harvest, prepare and share great food!

Since 2009, the Garden to Table Trust has been supporting schools to teach children how to Grow, Harvest, Prepare and Share kai, building life‑long skills that also have a positive impact on their whānau and community. The Trust recogniseda wide concern that the basic ‘life’ skills of growing and cooking fresh kai are being lost, that many children are disconnected from their food supply, know little or nothing about where food comes from, or how to cook it.Our dream is that all children in Aotearoa New Zealand can grow and cook kai as part of daily life.

The Garden to Table programme is currently run in around 300 schools nationwide. It is a curriculum‑linked food education programme aimed at empowering children at an early age to develop good eating habits, learn where their food comes from, and instill a lifelong love of good food. Learning by doing, children learn the skills they need to grow and prepare food and take these skills home.

We provide schools with support, training, expertise, and resources to enable them to run the programme and maximise the benefit to children. There are so many benefits for children involved in the Garden to Table programme, across education, hauora (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health), food security and environmental sustainability.

As we grow, we are committed to engaging with schools to ensure the Garden to Table programme can be delivered in line with their learning priorities, in ways that reflect and enhancetheir schoolculture.We want all tamariki to feel like they belong and be able to see their cultures reflected in the programme.

Equitable workplace

Garden to Table Trustis proud to be an equitable workplace, where wewelcome and accept diversity and difference. We will endeavour to support your individual needsandprovide a safe and inclusive environment, to achieve equitable outcomes for ouremployees,schools, and students.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

We recognise Māori as tangata whenua of Aotearoa. We have begun our work to learn more about te ao Māori and how matauranga Māori can enrich the Garden to Table offering for all New Zealand children. To do this, we want to work with Māori in the spirit of partnership embodied in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Primary Purpose

The Learning and Digital Projects Lead is a strategic leader and plays a pivotal role in transforming Garden to Table’s Delivery Model to be scalable, equitable, and digitally enabled. The Learning and Digital Project Lead will lead the strategic development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Trust’s digital learning infrastructure, member engagement experience, and professional learning systems to support schools nationwide. This role ensures the accessibility and practicality of our education and digital tools, professional development learning and resources with a strong focus on tailored, impactful, and inclusive support for equitable access to resources and meet a diverse range of school needs and educational contexts and settings.

As part of the education leadership team, this role will contribute to the collective strategic leadership of the Education Team, ensuring the development of our multi‑year Education Plan that turns our strategy into action. This is a key role to advance the Trust's Strategic objectives by greater embedding of GTT in the school curriculum in more schools and building the Trust's profile as leader, collaborator and influencer.

The Learning and Digital Projects Lead oversees robust project management and monitoring systems to track milestones, outcomes, and impact, ensuring accountability and continuous improvement, aligned with strategic goals.This role a key strategic leader and translates the Trust’s strategic goals into actionable project and operational plans.

Note - ‘schools’ is a term for Garden to Table (GTT) members including Early Learning Centres and schools.

Key responsibilities

Strategy and Planning

• Together with the Education Projects and Team Lead and Education Content Lead, and with input from the Education Team and across the organisation, lead the development and implementation of a multi‑year Education Plan, with clear milestones and outcomes aligned to the Trust’s strategic objective that enables the growth of Garden to Table membership and supports a school Delivery Model that is a structured, yet flexible, scalable, with an equity‑focused approach.
• Lead development of the Trust’s Digital Strategy and Strategic Projects that will contribute to how we evolve our education support and services into the future to create new ways to engage and create impact for our diverse nationwide community of schools.
• Ensure all educational, learning and digital developments, as part of the Education Plan are focused on proactive, planned and structured school support. Support the team to focus on engaging school leadership at the outset (inquiry stage), with strong focus on onboarding and empowering schools to be running sustainable, embedded and impactful programmes within 1‑3 years through an ongoing commitment to embed the programme more deeply, improving retention and whole‑school commitment.
• Ensure consistent professionalism, timeliness and high‑quality communication and delivery of outcomes across the organisation and with external stakeholders.

Strategic Project Management

Digital Learning and Professional Development Design

Members Website and Digital Resource Platform

School Engagement and Support

Equity and Accessibility Leadership

Monitoring, Impact and Continuous Improvement

Leadership and Team collaboration

Most frequent interactions

Internal

External

Qualifications / Experience and skills

Essential

Preferred

Personal Attributes

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