Fair Food Program Worker Education Coordinator

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) — an award-winning, worker-led human rights organization — is seeking an Education and Outreach Coordinator to join our team in Immokalee, Florida. This role supports the CIW’s groundbreaking Fair Food Program (FFP), the broader Campaign for Fair Food, and the organization’s ongoing community organizing work.

Join an internationally recognized, locally driven organization that forged the gold standard for human rights enforcement in agriculture — a model now studied and replicated around the world.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Education Coordinator works alongside a dynamic, multilingual team of farmworker leaders who speak Spanish, English, Haitian Creole, and Indigenous Mayan languages. The team conducts worker-to-worker education sessions in rural fields and farm offices across the United States, as well as internationally on FFP farms in Chile and South Africa. Workers in the Fair Food Program harvest tomatoes, peaches, corn, tulips, and dozens of other crops. As the CIW’s work continues to expand, the organization operates across a local, national, and international landscape — from community organizing in Immokalee and consumer education nationwide to implementing the Fair Food Program across multiple states and helping replicate its model of worker-driven human rights enforcement in new countries and industries around the world.

Through these education sessions, thousands of farmworkers learn about their rights and become active participants in monitoring and protecting those rights. The worker-created Code of Conduct is brought to life through popular education techniques and visual curriculum designed to ensure workers understand key protections — including the right to work free from labor trafficking, sexual violence, and retaliation. Sessions also teach workers how to report violations through the 24-hour complaint hotline, explain the investigation process, and demonstrate how the Code of Conduct is enforced through meaningful market consequences.

The Education Team works closely with the program’s independent monitoring body, the Fair Food Standards Council (FFSC), particularly when complaints arise.

The CIW seeks a dedicated, mission-driven individual comfortable communicating in both Spanish and English(additional languages are a plus). Experience living or working in rural settings in the United States or internationally is strongly recommended. Flexibility in relating to people from diverse cultures, languages, and professional backgrounds is essential.

Curiosity, creativity, nimble thinking, and a sense of humor are also highly valued.

This position is based in Immokalee, Florida, the hometown of both the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Fair Food Program. Living in Immokalee means becoming part of a vibrant and resilient community that is helping transform agriculture and other low-wage industries worldwide.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Education

• Maintain regular communication and coordination with farm owners, supervisors, FFSC auditors, and farmworkers
• Draft and maintain education session reports in English and Spanish in the FFP worker feedback and complaints database
• Coordinate scheduling of worker education sessions alongside FFSC audit schedules
• Report complaints — including potential forced labor cases on non-FFP farms — to relevant government agencies, law enforcement, or other authorities

Operations

• Liaise with a broad range of external partners, including worker organizations, academic experts, agribusiness owners, corporate representatives, consumer allies, government officials, law enforcement, journalists, and others
• Provide interpretation and translation (Spanish/English) for meetings and written materials
• Coordinate high-level delegations and visits to Immokalee
• Assist with investigations into forced labor, sexual assault, and other labor abuses, including travel to follow up on leads, accompanying survivors and witnesses, and conducting background research
• Support ongoing Immokalee-based organizing efforts such as the CIW Women’s
• Group and the CIW’s community radio station Radio Conciencia

Periodic national and international travel is required in support of the CIW’s broader

work. Responsibilities may include public speaking, presentations, and engagement

with students, corporate buyers, consumers, and faith-based organizations.

QUALIFICATIONS

The position requires:

• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish (additional languages — including Haitian Creole or Indigenous Mayan languages — are a plus)
• A deep commitment to advancing farmworker rights and following the leadership of workers
• Adaptability across diverse environments, from remote farm fields to university lecture halls
• Willingness to work and drive during early morning hours during harvest seasons (education sessions are held when the farm workday begins)
• Strong organizational skills and ability to coordinate complex schedules and partnerships
• Strategic thinking and sound judgment
• A collaborative and team-oriented work style
• Investigative experience is a plus.

Benefits include fully paid healthcare, dental, and vision premiums, and generous coverage of additional health-related expenses, as well as provision of technical equipment as needed.

Further details are available upon inquiry.

Bilingual proficiency in Spanish and English is required. Haitian Creole or Indigenous Mayan languages are a plus.