Employment
Work with the PFI team and agricultural stakeholders across the Midwest to create more resilient farming systems!
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Current Openings
Field Crops Viability Coordinator
PFI’s farm viability department provides innovative, personalized support to help farmers achieve their goals. We partner with farmers to implement new on-farm practices, develop markets and create robust farm business plans. We develop strategic partnerships across the food and agriculture supply chains and shape the policies that encourage resilient farms to thrive.
Within the farm viability department, the field crops viability team oversees regenerative, row-crop financial assistance programs. This position will support the work of the field crops viability team by providing technical assistance to farmers implementing regenerative row-crop practices, planning events to support communities of practice and helping farmers through the cost-share sign-up process and complete program requirements once enrolled.
Finance Manager
The finance department provides critical organizational support to process, track and manage all organizational income and expenses, and to ensure PFI’s financial sustainability and health to carry out its mission. Practical Farmers of Iowa is in an exciting phase of growth, which brings with it a need for increased efficiency of financial processes to control costs, mitigate risk and streamline internal processes for clarity and expediency.
The finance manager will oversee internal processes that ensure accuracy for the department of all accounts payable and accounts receivable processes.
Field Crops Education Coordinator
The farmer-led education department houses PFI’s long-standing farmer-led education efforts. This department annually delivers robust educational programming consisting of field days, conference sessions, workshops and webinars. These events, along with farmer meet-ups and other programming, aim to help farmers build peer networks and learn from one another. In addition, staff in this department write educational content featuring farmer knowledge for PFI’s media, including PFI’s blog, email newsletters and quarterly magazine.
The field crops education coordinator will support this team by planning and facilitating farmer-led educational and networking events; writing farmer-focused articles, blogs and other outreach on topics related to field crops; and connect with field crops farmers to learn about their challenges, opportunities and how PFI can serve them.
Senior Data Systems Coordinator
The farm viability department provides innovative, personalized support to help farmers achieve their goals. We partner with farmers to implement new on-farm practices, develop markets and create robust farm business plans. We make key connections across the food and agriculture supply chain, develop strategic partnerships and shape the policies that encourage resilient farms to thrive.
We’re seeking a senior data systems coordinator to lead the viability team in developing and using a consistent data strategy for our various program areas that assists staff in tracking progress to goals and milestones, resulting in easier meta-analysis and reporting.