Responsibilities

• Work with the communications and project leads to implement project communication and liaise community activities across ROC initiatives, including San Joaquin Valley Heat, Growing GRASS, educational events in Northern and Southern California, and the national Vote for Your Food campaign
• Work with Project Manager to assist with relationship coordination with farmworker community members, agricultural producers, nonprofit partners, agencies, and other stakeholders in support of ongoing projects
• Execute social media content strategy by drafting, scheduling, and publishing content across ROC’s established channels (LinkedIn, Instagram, BlueSky, X, and Facebook)
• Create and coordinate communications assets that highlight ROC’s policy work, campaigns, reports, partners, events, and community stories
• Support the production and distribution of newsletters, email communications, podcasts, and other digital communications
• Use Canva and other basic design tools to develop simple, on-brand graphics, and visual assets
• Track engagement metrics and prepare basic reports to help inform future communications efforts
• Work with other colleagues to update website content to ensure information about ROC’s programs, staff, events, and resources remains current
• Maintain project trackers, coordinate timelines, and support timely delivery of communications and project milestones
• Collaborate with staff and external partners to coordinate communications deliverables and ensure projects move forward efficiently

Requirements

• 2 years of experience in the field. A master’s degree in a sustainability science or food systems may be used to substitute for 2 years of experience required
• Bachelor’s degree in a field relevant or applicable to food and agricultural systems analysis, or substitute with four additional years of relevant experience
• Spanish language fluency
• Experience with stakeholder engagement planning and implementation to develop trust and foster collaboration in marginalized communities
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Ability to assist in facilitation of stakeholder engagements maintaining professional protocols in complex situations in which stakeholders share strong emotions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage with farmers, ranchers, farmworker, food justice and food system advocates and public agency partners
• Ability to convey information clearly and concisely and summarize research in written form or verbally in public settings
• Ability to create visualization tools such as infographics and to convey information using these tools in public settings

Preferred

• Master’s degree preferred