Jobs - Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative

Jobs

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:

US Federal / State Departments and Agencies
Federally Recognized Tribes and organizations
Educational Institutions

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State Jobs

Senior Attorney

Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Location: Tallahassee, FL

Closing Date: May 5, 2026

Duties Include:

Responsible for all matters about agriculture except as otherwise provided by law.
Renders requested legal advice and counsel to the Commissioner, the Commissioner’s staff, and other employees of the department.
Handles complex cases on all levels of trial and appellate courts in the state and federal system as well as administrative proceedings under the Florida Administrative Procedures Act.

Assistant Director for Community Operations

Texas Department of Agriculture

Location: Primary in Houston; Various ( Austin, Lubbock, and San Antonio)

Closing Date: February 26, 2025

Duties Include:

Assist the Director for Community Operations in directing and coordinating activities of staff operations statewide to include planning, developing, overseeing, and evaluating projects, schedules, and work plans.
Provide direct supervision to section staff, including, but not limited to, objective assessment of staff performance and productivity, identification of appropriate education and training needs for staff, time and leave reporting, staff workflow, partnering meetings, coaching sessions, and other associated staff meetings.
Ensure all administrative review and technical assistance processes and activities required for the Child Nutrition Programs (CNPs) administered by the Community Operations section follow all federal and state rules and regulations and make recommendations to correct behaviors and processes that increase risk to the Agency.

Agriculture Law Enforcement Chief

Arkansas Department of Agriculture

Location: Little Rock, AR

Closing Date: For a hire date of June 2026 or after

Duties Include:

Direct and manage agricultural law enforcement operations across the state. Supervise, train, and evaluate a team of law enforcement officers, investigators, and administrative personnel.
Develop and implement law enforcement policies, procedures, and strategic initiatives to ensure compliance with state law and agricultural rules.
Coordinate with local, state, and federal agencies to support agriculture-related law enforcement efforts.

Compliance Specialist 1 (Meat Inspector)

Oregon Department of Agriculture

Location: Klamath Falls, OR

Closing Date: March 1, 2026

Duties Include:

Ensure each step—stunning, bleeding, evisceration—is performed properly and safely.
Identify and report deviations from approved methods or humane handling protocols.
Review interpretation of lab results for compliance with state and federal standards.
Verify compliance with the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.

Agriculture Division Director

Arkansas Department of Agriculture

Location: Little Rock, AR

Closing Date: Open until filled

Preferred Qualifications Include:

Demonstrated experience overseeing or administering large-scale food and nutrition programs, including programs funded or regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, such as child nutrition, commodity distribution, farm to school, or emergency food assistance initiatives.
Experience developing and implementing initiatives that integrate locally produced agricultural commodities into institutional food systems, including school meal programs and other public nutrition settings.

Agriculture Animal Industry – Meat Inspector 1 or 2

Georgia Department of Agriculture

Location: Macon, GA (Plus 3 other locations)

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Duties Include:

Under direct supervision, he learns to inspect red meat, products, and meat processing facilities to determine compliance with legal standards.
This includes antemortem and post-mortem inspections.
This position requires access to a personal vehicle or reliable transportation. Incumbents must work in adjoining areas as program requirements dictate, although travel outside of the assigned area is expected to be less than 15% of total travel.

Tribal Jobs

Intern I – WIC Public Health, Summer 2026

Cherokee Nation

Location: Tahlequah, OK

Closing Date: April 15, 2026

Duties Include:

Operate standard office equipment and computer software
Frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions.

Chief Operating Officer

Bishop Paiute Tribe

Location: Bishop, CA

Closing Date: February 28, 2026

Duties Include:

Assists with the development and implementation of a strategic plan to maintain capacity to deliver services that result in a positive and appropriate outcome for Tribe.
Assists with the implementation and communication of goals, objectives, policies, procedures, programming, and public relations in accordance with strategic plan and applicable laws, regulations, ordinances, and regulatory agencies.
Supervises assigned Directors/Managers and carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.

Deputy Director of Natural Resources

Quileute Tribe

Location: LaPush, WA

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Duties Include:

Assist in the management of personnel and their activities within the program.
Help to ensure that all activities within the program are in accordance with the Quileute Tribal laws, policies and ordinances.
Assists in the implementation and activation of several programs that are to perform as outlined under Article II Section 201 of the Scope of Bureau Programs to be performed under the P.L. 638 contract and codes.

Partners Jobs

Soil Health Educator

Soil Health Institute

Location: Morrisville, NC (Remote)

Closing Date: March 11, 2026

Duties Include:

Co-organize and co-facilitate listening sessions with Indigenous growers to understand their agricultural systems, barriers, needs, and opportunities that can be addressed through soil health.
Design and deliver culturally appropriate soil health educational materials including field days, soil health workshops, and soil health reports.
Integrate Indigenous knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge, and cultural practices into soil health education and curriculum.

Communications Officer

Akiptan

Location: Eagle Butte, SD

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Duties Include:

Provide information and answer questions to potential borrowers and current clients on programs with Akiptan.
Ensures completion and compliance of the content strategy. This includes collecting necessary information, inputting key performance indications, collaborating with departments and ensuring that data entry is complete, etc.
Managing the reporting of key performance indicators from all platforms.

Tribal Engagement Coordinator

Indigenous Conservation Council of Chesapeake Bay

Location: Remote within the Chesapeake Bay watershed

Closing Date: March 14, 2026

Duties Include:

Responsible for coordinating outreach and engagement programs and events, and communicating and engaging with tribal leadership and communities to support conservation needs.
Support the coordination and implementation of a new Listening to Our Lands program. This place-based program initiative is designed to bring Tribal Nations together with property rights holders of their ancestral lands to support land access and reconnection, conservation collaboration, and knowledge exchange within the lower Chesapeake Bay watershed and other regional watersheds within the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Stewarding Native Lands Program Officer

First Nations Development Institute

Location: Longmont, CO or Albuquerque, NM

Closing Date: March 14, 2026

Duties Include:

Responsible for the planning, implementation, and management of multi-year, complex projects.
Direct the efforts of program officers and program associates on various aspects of projects.
Responsible for the management and supervision of direct reports (e.g., consultants, grantees, and fellows), providing direction, setting goals, giving feedback, employee coaching, and ensuring professional development and training.

Staff Attorney

Intertribal Agriculture Council

Location: WFH / Remote

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Duties Include:

Draft, review, negotiate, and interpret contracts, including those related to grants, sponsorships, services, and vendor agreements
Assist in ensuring compliance with nonprofit regulations, including IRS requirements, charitable solicitation laws, and municipal procurement processes
Provide legal counsel on employment/HR matters, including policy development, wage/hour compliance, and benefit plan compliance, in coordination with HR
Provide legal support for fundraising initiatives, including gift agreements and donor restrictions

Principal Legal Counsel and Department Manager

Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC)

Location: Portland, OR

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Duties Include:

Serve as CRITFC’s principal legal counsel on treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, environmental and natural resource law, and organizational compliance.
Lead a team of attorneys and legal staff, overseeing litigation support, policy development, and intergovernmental negotiations.
Build partnerships with tribal governments, federal and state agencies, and regional stakeholders to advance CRITFC’s mission and protect tribal treaty rights.
Guide CRITFC’s legal and policy strategies while supporting organizational systems, risk management, and compliance efforts.

Education Jobs

Native American Nutrition and Food Systems (Associate or Full Professor)

University of Minnesota

Location: Twin Cities

Closing Date: Applications will be reviewed starting mid to late January 2026

Duties Include:

Involves research and teaching that supports the mission of the Department of Food Science and Nutrition.
Expected to develop a strong extramurally funded research program that investigates the relationship between diet, lifestyle and health of Native American individuals, urban and/or tribal communities.
Expectations include leadership in organizing nutrition and food-related scholarly and community events, such as the Native American Nutrition Conference.

Land Grant Program Manager

Navajo Technical University

Location: Crownpoint, NM

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Duties Include:

Research and review USDA and other federal, state, tribal and local agricultural program grant announcements for funding of land grant programming including community outreach projects, education projects, research projects, and for funding the LGP Manager position and other positions within the NTU Land Grant Department.
Develops new funding or grant streams of revenue.
Develop concepts and write grant proposals for possible funding under identified grant opportunities.

Federal Jobs

Attorney Advisor (General)

USDA Office of the General Counsel

Location: Washington, DC

Closing Date: February 27, 2026

Duties Include:

Provide legal advice and counsel to agencies of the USDA.
Serve as liaison between agencies of the USDA and the Department of Justice in litigation concerning USDA programs.
Represent agencies of the USDA in formal administrative adjudication.
Conduct legal research.
Draft and review legal documents, including briefs, contracts, legal opinions, and agency documents.

Attorney Advisor (Senior Counsel)

USDA Office of the General Counsel

Location: Washington, DC

Closing Date: February 27, 2026

Duties Include:

Serves as a senior attorney providing authoritative legal advice and litigation support on complex, high-impact matters involving the federal nutrition programs.
Develops and advises on litigation strategy for complex cases coordinating closely with the Department of Justice.
Advises senior leadership on litigation risk.
Provides expert legal counsel on administrative law and statutory interpretation.

IFAI Jobs

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