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Loan Assistant / Specialist

USDA: Farm Services Agency 

Location: Beatrice, NE
Close Date: March 27, 2023

Assists the Farm Loan Manager in administering farm loan programs in a USDA Service Center serving one or more Counties.

Conducts interviews with loan applicants, reviews loan applications, and makes preliminary inquiries to develop factual information to assess the eligibility of applicants.  

Water Rights Specialist  

DoI: Bureau of Indian Affairs 
Location: Vancouver, WA (NorthWest Reg)
Close Date: March 27, 2023

Duties Include:

  • Serve as an authoritative expert in water rights, perform and direct tasks to protect Indian water rights and related trust resources.
  • Responsible for the investigation, analysis and preparation of water rights cases, including litigation reports and position papers for government entities.

Loan Technician 

USDA: Rural Development 
Location: Various Locations
Close Date: June 13, ,2023

The incumbent provides information to the public as well as technical and clerical support on various loan, grant, and loan guarantee programs administered by RD.

The incumbent also initiates and prepares correspondence, maintains records, report and files.

 

Natural Resource Officer 

DoI: Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Location: Fort Duchesne, UT
Close Date: June 12, 2023

Duties Include:

  • Formulate and establishes work in the management, conservation, protection and utilization of the soil, range, wildlife, mineral and water resources.
  • Responsible for all matters involving tribal natural resources programs within the jurisdiction of the Agency.


Forest Advocate

Natural Resources Defense Council
Location: San Francisco, Washington DC, Chicago, or satellite office
Close Date: Open until filled

NRDC is seeking a Forest Protection Advocate to work with coalitions, the media, affected communities, and decision-makers to safeguard the biological, climate, and traditional Indigenous values of North American forests.

The advocate’s time will be split evenly between two forest conservation campaigns, one to save mature stands and trees in U.S. federal forests, and the other to combat bioenergy threats to hardwood bottomlands in the Southeast U.S. and the boreal forests in Canada.

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IFAI’s job board is intended to be a resource for Native Americans and Alaska Natives interested in employment and internship opportunities that focus primarily on Indigenous food and agriculture policy and law. However, the job board is also open to other types of opportunities in the following:

 

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