Careers

General Info:

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - all kinds of information about the job markets across the U.S., with much data by region, job type, etc.

• Industry Snapshot

• Pay & Benefits Info

• General Data

Professional Societies:

• Int’l Society of Sustainability Professionals, including their Career Center

• Sustainability Management Association, job postings require a membership to see

• A nice overall list of a wide range of related societies (provided by Yale)

• Food System Specific Jobs - https://www.goshen.edu/academics/sustainable-food-systems/sustainable-food-systemsfood-system-careers/

Webpages that keep updated lists of available jobs:

• Goshen College Jobs Bank

• Conservation Job Board

• Farm Based Education Network

  • North American Food Systems Network

  • Good Food Jobs

  • Community Alliance with Family Farmers

  • Orion Grassroots Job Source

  • National Center for Appropriate Technologies – farm internships & apprenticeships by state

  • Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service

  • Americorps – must search their wider offerings, food systems are well represented

  • USAID

  • USDA

  • Fair Trade Jobs

Listservs – community-based message boards that are sent straight to your email:

• COMFOOD

• Sustainable Ag Education Association

• SUSTAG

• FOODSPEAK – Michigan focus

• ECOLOG

Twitter Feeds:

FAO Jobs

Facebook:

Sustainable Agriculture Jobs, Internships and Apprenticeships

Rodale Institute’s Farmer Connect

Selected Graduate Programs:

How do you know what you want to be when you grow up?

Helpers:  offer food, shelter, and caring to those in need. In the process they make face-to-face and heart-to-heart connections with people.  They try to offer services to every single person they can.  Helpers are immensely important to those getting services , and it can be very rewarding to the Helpers as well.  To be effective, Helpers must support people to see how the system places stumbling blocks in their lives.  If Helpers are unaware of the need for structural change their work may be solely about feel-food bandaids.  

Advocates:  help individuals survive and navigate the rules and regulations of the current system.  With their inside knowledge of policies and protocols, visionary advocates can offer meaningful changes to the current system or even comprehensive alternatives.  Unintentionally, Advocates can dampen people's desire for radical change by by urging that they accept the system as it is.  Advocates can get stuck in an attitude that they should be able to solve all their clients' problems, without promoting their clients' agency and vision.

Organizers:  identify root causes and bring people together to solve problems, with a belief that they can build power to make change.  Organizers, however, can be ineffective when they get bogged down in the inner life of their groups.  They might get stuck in a stifling non profit or the belief they should only go after goals that are "winnable".  Organizers who are not directly impacted by an issue may fall into assuming a leadership role rather than empowering the people most impacted to take leadership on for themselves.

Rebels:  bring fire and energy and are willing to take risks that other may never even consider.  They can be unyielding in pursuit of justice and willing to go through great personal sacrifice to make their point.  However, Rebels can become ineffective when they self-righteously view everyone else as less radical or less moral.  They can focus too much on tearing ideas down rather than being constructive.  They do their best work when they are well connected to people in other roles who can give context to Rebels' unique, bold, and essential contributions