2025 Winter Garden Greeter - Garden Greeter for the San Francisco Botanical Garden
Join us as a Garden Greeter! Make a meaningful impact and help welcome visitors to two of San Francisco’s most iconic green spaces! Garden Greeter roles are available at both the Japanese Tea Garden and San Francisco Botanical Garden. No prior experience needed—just a friendly attitude and a love for connecting with others! Familiarity with the Gardens of Golden Gate Park and the surrounding area will help with common visitor questions.
As a Garden Greeter, you will:
- Provide a warm welcome to guests
- Help visitors find the correct path to begin their garden journey; helping with wayfinding may include directions to the correct line, helping visitors identify the appropriate proof of membership, residency or other applicable cards to gain entry efficiently
- Share their enthusiasm for the beauty and serenity of the Gardens of Golden Gate Park and Garden etiquette such as advising visitors to stay on the paths, and that wind can carry debris away easily so disposing trash properly is a necessity.
- Invite visitors to continue to support/connect with the Garden by volunteering, becoming a member or donating (share applicable QR codes or direct visitors to a nearby donation box).
- To successfully help visitors in this role, you may be positioned anywhere along the admission lines to enter the Gardens and help review proof of membership or move up and down the line of visitors to make sure they have the information that they need to find the correct line.
About You: As a volunteer of the Gardens of Golden Gate Park, you enjoy connecting people to plants, the planet, and each other. Garden Greeters actively welcome visitors and help them as they identify the correct route for them as they enter the gardens, moving along the admissions line of the Gardens as needed throughout their assignment.
Location: As a Garden Greeter for the San Francisco Botanical Garden, you will be situated alongside staff at the Botanical Garden, strategically located to help visitors find their way smoothly as they enter the Gardens, at either of the following locations:
- Friend Gate/North Gate - San Francisco Botanical Garden
- Main Gate Entry Garden - San Francisco Botanical Garden
To prepare for this assignment:
- Plan to check-in at the Garden Gate that you signed up for, a Visitor Experience Lead will help situate you in your role.
- Contact the Botanical Garden Lead if you cannot make your shift, at (415) 592-4511.
- No alcoholic beverages are allowed before or during your assignment
- It may be busy - please eat before your assignment and stay hydrated.
- Only bring what you can carry; there is no place for storage.
- Bring a refillable water bottle that you feel comfortable bringing with you.
