Job description
About Us
Planting Good Seeds is a community-based project rooted in a small fishing village on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. We are building Taganga’s first Recycling & Art Studio while supporting local youth through English practice, cultural exchange, and creative community projects.
The Role: English Coach & Fundraising Lead
This role is designed like a teacher’s retreat: just 10 to 15 hours/week of English coaching paired with cultural immersion and personal time to explore Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
English Coaching: lead relaxed group conversation sessions a couple times a week with mostly beginner-level students. This is not a traditional classroom role — the focus is on participation, confidence, and real-world English.
Movie Club: introduce a shared English-language film and use it as inspiration for discussion throughout the week.
Leadership in Fundraising: help sustain the program by contributing ideas and connections for fundraising. Many of our coaches return home and become long-term ambassadors.
Salary and benefits
This is not a burnout-style “teach English abroad” program that places you in a classroom for 20+ hours a week in exchange for barely covering your expenses. We intentionally move away from models that exhaust participants and limit real cultural exchange.
Instead, participants fundraise their program costs before arrival, allowing them to step into the experience fully supported.
The program cost includes:
Housing in a shared, welcoming space
Airport pickup
A built-in community of fellow participants
A light weekly commitment (10–15 hours) that leaves room for rest, creativity, and exploration
Because core living needs are covered, you arrive without the pressure of “making it work” financially once you’re here. Your time outside of sessions is your own — whether that means exploring Taganga, visiting Palomino, Tayrona Park, Minca, or Santa Marta, or simply slowing down by the sea.
This model allows us to prioritize well-being, sustainability, and meaningful exchange — for both participants and the community.
Requirements
Comfort with the unknown
This is a new, evolving program. We’re looking for people who feel energized — not unsettled — by experimentation and growth.
Willingness to fundraise for your own experience
Participants invite friends and family to support their personal journey. This is not about asking for charity — it’s about sharing a vision and allowing others to be part of it.
An understanding of exchange, not rescue
Volunteers are not here to “give back” from above. This experience is a gift you receive through presence, learning, and relationship — not something you offer from a distance.
Openness to learning alongside others
Language, culture, and community here are shared processes. No one arrives as the expert.
Respect for community and shared space
This work is built on trust, humility, and care — for people, place, and process.
This role is for people who see participation itself as the privilege.
How to apply
Send us a WhatsApp at
1-401-527-5616
or
Book an discovery call
here.
or
Send us an email at info@plantinggoodseeds.org
