Employment

Work with the PFI team and agricultural stakeholders across the Midwest to create more resilient farming systems!

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Around 40 PFI staff members pose for a photo at Foundry Distilling Company in Des Moines during a staff party.


Current Openings

Digital Content Coordinator

As PFI’s digital content coordinator, you’ll handle all aspects of PFI’s social media channels and email marketing, make minor updates to the PFI website and monitor PFI’s email discussion groups. This includes using creative copywriting to make engaging content, developing content calendars, scheduling posts, engaging with followers on social media, laying out email newsletters and more.

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Senior Research Coordinator

We’re seeking a senior research coordinator to help manage our Cooperators’ Program. You will join a team of staff scientists committed to supporting farmers as they perform proof-of-concept investigation and ground-truth new ideas and practices. In this role, you’ll work with a diverse group of farmers representing a range of farm sizes, enterprises and production practices, from grain crops to vegetables, organic to no-till. Many farms have integrated crop-vegetable systems and livestock.

You will play a pivotal role in helping farmers design statistically rigorous on-farm experiments they can perform to answer questions they have about their farms on topics that include, but are not limited to, cover crops, soil health, diversified cropping systems, season extension in vegetable production, variety trials and grazing livestock.

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Senior Cover Crop Business Coordinator

We’re seeking a senior cover crop business coordinator to manage our growing cover crop business accelerator program. This program offers one-on-one business support and financial assistance to help new and emerging cover crop businesses prepare for growth. As more farmers plant or express interest in cover crops, these businesses play a key role in providing the services farmers need to integrate cover crops into their operations.

In this role you’ll be responsible for delivering technical assistance directly to businesses, as well as growing and shaping the program to align with PFI’s business programming across enterprises. If you’re passionate about supporting sustainable farm-based businesses, growing rural economies and building effective business programs, this is your role!

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