Community Organizing Opportunity at GOAT

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For those interested in community organizing, we’re looking for someone in the Gathering for Open Ag Tech community. See below –

Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology

Community Manager

Position details:

  • Position type: Independent 1099 contractor

  • Location: Remote

  • Equipment: Self-provided

  • Salary: $35 per hour (with budget up to $17,500)

  • Hours: Part-time, roughly 8 hour per week

  • Contact: Jesus Torres at jesus@entidad.io or Maria Ridoutt-Orozco at maria@caff.org

  • Application open: September 1, 2025

  • Application deadline: October 1, 2025

  • Desired start date: November 1, 2025

GOAT Lead Conference and Community Organizer

Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology, GOAT, is seeking an individual to facilitate the organization and running of the 2026 GOAT conference that includes coordinating a network of volunteers, hosting regular events as well as reporting and communicating data on behalf of all GOAT members.

About GOAT:

Agriculture spans science, engineering, technology, and society. To grow plants, raise animals, feed communities, and steward the land, water, and air, humans design information tools and reconfigurable hardware. An ecosystem of open source agricultural technologies has emerged, fueled by an urgency to regenerate resilience in food systems, agriculture, and the environment. The Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology, GOAT, is a community of practice focused on improving the resilience of our food system by coordinating technology design and development through connecting diverse people and fostering hard conversations. GOAT is a space to build consensus and cultivate relationships across multiple aligned visions for the future. We believe that a just and resilient food system demands open source technologies and open access data that support a new generation of farmers and food workers as they improve integrated ecosystems and human communities. Digital technologies have been historically designed for well-resourced food system actors (often agri-food corporations, industrial farms, and people in power), resulting in a lack of access to technologies designed for a more diverse food system with a diverse community of workers. GOAT seeks to support and network those interested in open source technology in the agricultural community and grow a diverse and collaborative community. While a growing number of open source hardware and software projects are being produced at public universities, farming communities, small companies and activist-technologist groups, each of these large scale grant-driven projects are isolated, losing opportunities for social interaction and sharing technological insights.

Compensation:

Funding up to $17,500 for about 500 hours of work starting in Nov 2025 - Fall 2026 ($35/hr), with potential opportunity for continued funding. Quarterly budget plans will be constructed with input from the selected applicant.

2025-2026 Work & Expectations:

GOAT Conference Organizing (~180 hours)

The primary responsibility of this position is to facilitate the organization and running of the 2026 GOAT conference. GOAT conference organizing includes:

  • Lead GOAT Conference Organizing [~100 hours]

    • Recruit conference organizers and volunteers

    • Coordinate and schedule conference organizing meetings

    • Assist with conference venue selection

    • Manage the conference timeline, including task assignments and resource allocation

    • Serve as the conference primary point-of-contact

  • Support attendees during the 2026 GOAT Conference (Fall 2026) [~60 hours, in-person]

    • Lead on-site coordination with conference venue

    • Serve as the primary point-of-contact at conference venue for attendees and presenters

  • Facilitate Post-Conference Materials Dissemination

    • Capture conference summary, notes, and feedback

    • Organize conference debriefs and post mortem sessions

    • Grant reporting

  • Attend quarterly community calls!

    • Provide community conference planning progress and updates

GOAT Community Organizing (~320 hours)

In addition to organizing the conference, the community manager will jumpstart the community on a range of initiatives over the approximate 18 months of allotted funding, including but not limited to:

  • Lead organizational and project management of GOAT as a community:

    • Coordinate the volunteer GOAT community by: setting meetings and agendas, identifying or following up on opportunities that would get missed, assigning tasks to GOATs (organizers and volunteers) to help spread work out.

  • Lead GOAT volunteer network coordination

    • Identify bite-sized community roles. Get folks to sign up to volunteer for those bite-sized roles, and take on some themself. For example:

      • Identification and maintenance of conference opportunities

      • Maintaining a list of funding opportunities (grants, RFPs, etc.)

      • Curated monthly events list

      • Help Desk (inquiries to goatech.org@gmail.com, requests for info on forum, etc)

    • Manage the GOAT calendar

  • Lead GOAT Outreach & Communications

    • Make connections and identify opportunities

    • Create and distribute a quarterly email newsletter (including soliciting content

    • Community discovery

  • Support State of GOAT Report writing

    • Review 202x materials and content

      • Manifesto

    • Synthesizing GOAT notes for previous year work

    • Establish GOAT Principles (Norms and Values)

  • Support GOAT Sustainability strategy

    • Inventorying grants and connecting GOAT-members to them

    • Organizing collaborative funding for conference opportunities

    • Preparing for GOAT sessions on this topic

Desired Experience:

NOTE: Underrepresented people are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the job’s requirements. We believe in hiring people, not checklists, and encourage you to apply even if you do not check all of the boxes.

  • 2+ years of administrative experience or community organizing experience

  • Experience in writing reports, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and/or grants

  • Experience in organizing small to medium sized events, programs, or other similar experiences.

  • A passion for agriculture and a passion for building community.

Apply Here: https://forms.gle/eVm1dxyjRZKYTZSx5

Contact jesus@entidad.io and maria@caff.org for additional details and to express interest. We look forward to working with you!

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