Illinois Stewardship Alliance: Food & Farm Policy Organizer

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Illinois Stewardship Alliance is seeking an experienced and committed Policy Organizer to expand our pool of farmers who are passionate about soil health, water quality, and climate resilience.

Policy Organizer

Full Time Permanent, Salary

Remote, based in Illinois

Target start date November 2024

Salary 52,000 to $60,000 DOE with generous benefits, vacation and sick leave

Applications due October 27, 2024

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The Alliance’s mission is to find, connect, train and amplify the leadership of farmers and eaters who use their choices and their voices to shape a more just and regenerative local food and farm system. The Alliance is building a statewide community united to educate policymakers and form a powerful voice to transform how we feed ourselves and how our land is cared for and by whom.

Under the direction of the Executive Director and in partnership with the staff team, the Policy Organizer will recruit, retain, and organize members from among farmers, eaters, and food system leaders. The organizer will be responsible for facilitating a Caucus. The aim of these members-only caucuses is to bring together members who are passionate about soil health, water quality, and climate resilience, build relationships and trust, discuss issues, research policy, and collectively work on solutions to building a just and regenerative food system where farmers earn a living responsibly stewarding the land.

The organizer will meet one-on-one and in small groups with farmers and eaters to develop relationships, to surface issues, challenges, and opportunities, and to engage their participation in campaigns and public policy on food and agriculture. This organizing will expand the pool of leaders and base to foster new state and federal champions of regenerative agriculture.