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About The Lei Company
The Lei Company (TLC) provides a year-round and environmentally conscious avenue to purchase leis for sacred, celebratory and bereavement occasions. We steward and evolve the craft of lei making, cultivate and support lei makers, and provide business ownership opportunities, training and employment to the Pasifika – Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian community. We are locally rooted yet have a continuously growing global reach with fair trade partnerships with artisans in Fiji and the Federated States of Micronesia. Our headquarters are in Oakland, California.
We are recruiting to create a pool of on-call lei makers to fill part-time for our graduation 2019 season. TLC is an approved lei vendor for the Oakland Unified School District, their affiliated charter schools and other public and private schools within the City of Oakland and beyond. We also have an ecommerce stores on our own website and on the Amazon.com platform.
Position Synopsis
You must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Provide support as a member of our growing Lei Making Team. This includes lei production, sales and customer service, maintaining accurate inventory, receiving product, and triaging product for daily fulfillment. You must be self-motivated, have strong critical thinking, problem solving, organizational, and communication skills, the ability to hustle, and of course, a great design eye. You must also be able to solve problems and work well with various types of people. You’ll need to work hard, fast, smart, with technology and do it all with a positive attitude. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you!
Functions & Responsibilities
Make and sell leis. You do not have to be a master lei maker or have any floral design experience. However,…
You’ll need to be able to learn TLC aesthetic. You must be able to adopt TLC aesthetic even if it’s not your personal aesthetic preference. Our design aesthetic is informed by the research on the communities we serve and is set by the CEO, and you must be comfortable learning these specific lei styles.
Ensure highest level of design standards are met, and hopefully exceeded, with each and every lei or product that leaves our distribution center.
We are a young, high-growth company, so anything else that’s needed in order to keep things moving at our faster-than-a-speeding-bullet pace. We all roll up our sleeves and (literally) get our hands dirty in order to get the job done whenever and however necessary, and we really like it that way!
Additional Requirements
Because TLC is a worker-owned cooperative and because lei making at its essence is an ecological act - one that connects spirits, mind, body, land and ocean, all staff are required to complete modules of the Roots of Success environmental literacy and the Economics and Evolution of Lei Making in the United States course prior to employment. These trainings are not on-the-job paid trainings. At the satisfactory completion of these modules, participants will receive a federally recognized vocational certificate as an “Environmental Educator”.
Women, people of color, veterans, people with disabilities, LGBTQI, gender nonconforming, systems involved, bilingual and bicultural people are encouraged to apply.
Fill out the survey below. Then please send an email to tiffany@theleicompany.com and tell her why you are interested in the position, attach your resume and if applicable, photos of any lei design work you may have done.
The Lei Company (TLC) provides a year-round and environmentally conscious avenue to purchase leis for sacred, celebratory and bereavement occasions. We steward and evolve the craft of lei making, cultivate and support lei makers, and provide business ownership opportunities, training and employment to the Pasifika – Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian community. We are locally rooted yet have a continuously growing global reach with fair trade partnerships with artisans in Fiji and the Federated States of Micronesia. Our headquarters are in Oakland, California.
We are recruiting to create a pool of on-call lei makers to fill part-time for our graduation 2019 season. TLC is an approved lei vendor for the Oakland Unified School District, their affiliated charter schools and other public and private schools within the City of Oakland and beyond. We also have an ecommerce stores on our own website and on the Amazon.com platform.
Position Synopsis
You must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Provide support as a member of our growing Lei Making Team. This includes lei production, sales and customer service, maintaining accurate inventory, receiving product, and triaging product for daily fulfillment. You must be self-motivated, have strong critical thinking, problem solving, organizational, and communication skills, the ability to hustle, and of course, a great design eye. You must also be able to solve problems and work well with various types of people. You’ll need to work hard, fast, smart, with technology and do it all with a positive attitude. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you!
Functions & Responsibilities
Make and sell leis. You do not have to be a master lei maker or have any floral design experience. However,…
You’ll need to be able to learn TLC aesthetic. You must be able to adopt TLC aesthetic even if it’s not your personal aesthetic preference. Our design aesthetic is informed by the research on the communities we serve and is set by the CEO, and you must be comfortable learning these specific lei styles.
Ensure highest level of design standards are met, and hopefully exceeded, with each and every lei or product that leaves our distribution center.
We are a young, high-growth company, so anything else that’s needed in order to keep things moving at our faster-than-a-speeding-bullet pace. We all roll up our sleeves and (literally) get our hands dirty in order to get the job done whenever and however necessary, and we really like it that way!
Additional Requirements
Because TLC is a worker-owned cooperative and because lei making at its essence is an ecological act - one that connects spirits, mind, body, land and ocean, all staff are required to complete modules of the Roots of Success environmental literacy and the Economics and Evolution of Lei Making in the United States course prior to employment. These trainings are not on-the-job paid trainings. At the satisfactory completion of these modules, participants will receive a federally recognized vocational certificate as an “Environmental Educator”.
Women, people of color, veterans, people with disabilities, LGBTQI, gender nonconforming, systems involved, bilingual and bicultural people are encouraged to apply.
Fill out the survey below. Then please send an email to tiffany@theleicompany.com and tell her why you are interested in the position, attach your resume and if applicable, photos of any lei design work you may have done.
Since lei making at its essence is an expression of love and the connection we have with our Earthly Mother, The Lei Company Cooperative's mandatory work readiness training for prospective worker-owner candidates and seasonal employees should be environmentally grounded. To this end, The Lei Company in partnership with our sister nonprofit, The Pasifika Center are proud to announce our training partnership with Roots of Success (www.rootsofsuccess.org).
From their website: "Roots of Success responds to the need to create living wage jobs and career pathways for residents in communities with high rates of poverty and unemployment and to promote sustainable development. We do this by strengthening core academic skills, increasing people’s understanding of environmental problems and solutions, preparing them for jobs and career pathways in multiple sectors of the economy and, to improve conditions in their communities. Our focus is on student success, making learning relevant, building on prior experiences, and connecting education to employment."
All who complete this training will not only have the opportunity to move on to Worker-Owner Candidacy, but they will also obtain a federally recognized Environmental Educator Certification that allows them a pathway into Green Jobs.
From their website: "Roots of Success responds to the need to create living wage jobs and career pathways for residents in communities with high rates of poverty and unemployment and to promote sustainable development. We do this by strengthening core academic skills, increasing people’s understanding of environmental problems and solutions, preparing them for jobs and career pathways in multiple sectors of the economy and, to improve conditions in their communities. Our focus is on student success, making learning relevant, building on prior experiences, and connecting education to employment."
All who complete this training will not only have the opportunity to move on to Worker-Owner Candidacy, but they will also obtain a federally recognized Environmental Educator Certification that allows them a pathway into Green Jobs.