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
- IFAI’s partner agencies, including members of the Native Farm Bill Coalition
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(NOTE: Please include application submission deadlines with job postings.)
Federal Jobs
Environmental Health Specialist
DHHS Indian Health Service
Location: Rhinelander, WI
Closing Date: December 31, 2025
Duties Include:
- Plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive environmental health program on assigned reservations that emphasizes safe water, solid and hazardous waste management, food protection, pool safety, healthy homes, occupational health and safety, safe childcare environments, vector control, community injury prevention, radon gas, and institutional health.
- Conduct comprehensive environmental health surveys of all Indian Health Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Tribal facilities including schools, daycare centers, gaming facilities, health care, etc.
- Build Tribal capacity to manage environmental health hazards in their community by assisting with the development of environmental health and occupational safety policies, procedures, regulations, employee training programs, and public education materials.
Research Animal Scientist (Research Associate)
USDA: Agricultural Research Service
Location: Clay Center, NE
Closing Date: November 12, 2025
Duties Include:
- Will focus research efforts on management practices and dietary factors that influence greenhouse gas emissions in beef cattle.
- Evaluates the impact of management systems, and supplementation strategies on enteric methane and other greenhouse gas emissions from beef calves.
- Develops treatments applied, conducts research, and publishes the research results during their postdoc program under the guidance of their Postdoctoral Mentor.
State Jobs
Agricultural Inspector Technicians
Montana Department of Agriculture
Location: Manhattan / Bozeman (website identifies other locations in MT)
Closing Date: Ongoing
Duties include:
- Collects agricultural samples of potato tubers, ensuring representative sampling and inspections of potato tubers to determine overall quality and grade for certification purposes. This involves inspecting representative samples and comparing characteristics (e.g., size, shape, decay, soft rot, etc.) with grading standards and tolerance levels. Compiles and calculates numerical grading results to determine overall grade and issues official certificates declaring the grade of the potatoes.
- Maintains regular communications with growers to assess inspection needs, respond to questions, and provide advice and assistance related to shipping certification.
Managing Attorney
Arkansas Department of Agriculture
Location: Little Rock, AR
Closing Date: Open until filled
Duties Include:
- Supervises and manages support staff and subordinate attorneys by interviewing, hiring, providing training, assigning workloads, and evaluating performance of incumbents.
- Provides legal services and advice to management and divisions on a broad range of matters.
- Represents the agency in negotiations. Represents the agency in litigation including all administrative and court proceedings. Interprets and analyzes all state and federal laws.
Food Safety Compliance Specialist 2 – Eastern Region
Washington State Department of Agriculture
Location: Yakima County, WA (Remote)
Closing Date: Continuous
Duties Include:
- Performs inspections, investigations, and sample collection to protect public health from unsafe or adulterated food by evaluating compliance with state laws and federal regulations.
- Conducts in-depth food safety inspections in facilities that process or hold food products including but not limited to; food processors and food storage warehouses; dairy farms; dairy plants; custom meat facilities, custom slaughter plants and trucks; cannabis-infused edibles facilities; egg handling facilities; poultry processors and other food handlers.
Tribal Jobs
WIC Paraprofessional
Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Location: Shawnee, OK
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Duties Include:
- Completion of Nutrition Assistant Training as well as continuing education for this position.
- Must be able to be trained in the operation of the WIC software program, SPIRIT, or any other WIC software.
- Completion of paperwork/documentation necessary for enrollment in the WIC Program.
- Assessment of income eligibility.
Water Resources Engineer
Coeur d’Alene Tribe
Location: Plummer, ID
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Duties Include:
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Complete all engineering requirements needed to support project designs and specifications for restoration work, including in-stream habitat projects, wetland construction/restoration, and road rehabilitation.
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Collect physical habitat data at project sites for use in project designs.
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Prepare contracts and cost estimates for construction, operation and maintenance of habitat restoration/enhancement projects.
Intern – Legal (Summer 2025)
Cherokee Nation
Location: Tahlequah, OK
Closing Date: May 19, 2025
Overview:
- Assists directorate, supervisors, and/or other staff members with projects as assigned.
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or six months related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Partners Jobs
Policy Analyst, Forest and Agricultural Practices
Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Location: Olympia, WA
Closing Date: March 27, 2025
Duties Include:
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Facilitate and support tribal homeland and treaty resource protection priorities as affected by activities in the forested and agricultural landscapes.
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Coordinate and engage tribal implementation of Timber-Fish-Wildlife (TFW) Agreement and the Forest and Fish Report (FFR) and related processes. Assist in developing and implementing a tribal work agenda designed to address tribal issues and priorities to TFW/FFR.
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Establish and maintain statewide communication supporting tribal participation in TFW and FFR implementation activities.
Program Coordinator
Native Roots Farm Foundation
Location: Wilmington, DE
Closing Date: Applications submitted before April 7 will be prioritized
Duties Include:
- Steward the Three Sisters Garden to reconnect culturally significant varieties of The Three Sisters – Lenape and Nanticoke Corn, Beans, and Squash – with local Lenape and Nanticoke people.
- Interface with large groups of diverse people to share NRFF’s mission at NRFF programs and events throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
- Support the President/Executive Director with communications including writing social media posts and newsletters, creating flyers for programs, and helping write grants.
President
Indian Land Tenure Foundation
Location: Little Canada, MN
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Duties Include:
- Leadership & Strategic Direction – Provides leadership to the Foundation, guiding all aspects of its operations and ensuring that the programs, services, and policies align with the mission.
- Program & Sight Oversight – Responsible for selecting, developing, and evaluating staff to ensure the efficient operation of the Foundation
- Board Relations – Works closely with the Board of Directors to ensure the execution of long-term and short-term strategic plans.
Program Administrator
AKIPTAN
Location: Eagle Butte, SD
Closing Date: Open until filled
Duties Include:
- Providing information and answering questions to potential borrowers and current clients on programs with Akiptan.
- Ensuring completion and compliance with programs. This includes collecting necessary information, ensuring all signatures, and initial fields are complete, etc.
- Pulling reports, filing, etc. Updating the Programming details. Entering clients into the system. Managing the department agenda and taking notes.
Programs Officer
AKIPTAN
Location: Eagle Butte, SD
Closing Date: Open until filled
Duties Include:
- Delivering the grant deliverables of the Akiptan’s programs with partners.
- Developing, coordinating, and reporting on programs, services, curriculums, and grants.
- Working with all demographics of clients to provide support on training as necessary for program participants.
- Maintaining, supporting, and updating account records for program participants.
Development Officer
AKIPTAN
Location: Eagle Butte, SD
Closing Date: Open until filled
Duties Include:
- Writing and editing grant proposals; assisting with investment proposals, prospectus pages, and data room presentations; identifying, seeking out, and tracking funding opportunities with the Executive Director and other senior staff.
- Will work to find key partnership opportunities for strategic growth that complement the organization’s strategic plan; will help to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with current and prospective funders.
Executive Director
Intertribal Buffalo Council
Location: Rapid City, SD
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Duties Include:
- Provide leadership and management to ensure that the mission and core values of ITBC are put
into practices. - Foster a success-oriented, accountable environment where employees can grow and succeed.
- Oversee all ITBC staff to ensure grants, contracts, finance, personnel, membership outreach,
policies and ITBC commitments are executed in a timely manner.
Executive Assistant
InterTribal Buffalo Council
Location: Rapid City, SD
Closing Date: N/A
Duties Include:
- Responsible for managing the schedule and communications of the Executive Director and assisting with special projects.
- Has the day-to-day responsibility for managing the Executive Director’s reports, mailings, correspondence accuracy, and timeliness. The position may also be assigned other duties as deemed necessary.
Range and Infrastructure Specialist
InterTribal Buffalo Council
Location: Rapid City, SD
Closing Date: N/A
Duties Include:
- Member of the Technical Services Department.
- Will work from the office and also travel to ITBC Member Tribes to to provide support and recommendations to Tribal buffalo managers on matters relating to rangeland management and infrastructure development.
Education Jobs
Indigenous Summer Research Scholars
Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Location: Geneva, NY
Closing Date: Applications are accepted until January 20, 2025 (until the program is full)
Objectives for Scholars include:
- Conduct an independent research project focused on the agricultural plant or food sciences.
- Develop professional and soft skills necessary for research.
- Be mentored by Cornell faculty, who are experts in entomology, horticulture, food science or plant pathology.
- Note: Scholars receive a $6,200 stipend and are provided housing.
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.
IFAI Jobs
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