Administrative Intern

About the Duke Campus Farm:

The Duke Campus Farm is a one-acre working farm, founded in 2010, which provides sustainably-grown produce and food systems education for Duke and its surrounding communities. In collaboration with our undergraduate and graduate student farm crew, academic courses, and research groups, we grow and harvest to donate to food security efforts in Durham. Our donations go to our partners at Root Causes, the Duke Graduate and Professional Student Pantry, West End Free Market, Durham Community Fridges, and Iglesia Presbiteriana Emanuel. More important than the thousands of pounds of food that we grow, however, are the opportunities the farm provides for engaging and reimagining the ways we cultivate, access, value, and think about food. Our mission is to catalyze positive change in the food system.

This fellowship is named in honor of Emily Sloss, the Duke undergraduate who led the efforts to launch the Duke Campus Farm in 2010.  

Position Summary:

The Duke Campus Farm seeks an energetic, engaged, and self-motivated people-person to work with the Assistant Director and our student programming team to create, expand, and support DCF’s co-curricular programming and outreach. The Fellow will be expected to both facilitate existing programming and to plan and facilitate two speaker events and two workshops over the course of their two-year term. These events can take on any food systems-related content or theme of the Fellow’s choosing. The Farm will also look to the Fellow, as a recent graduate, to bring in new student-based partnerships based on their Duke and Durham communities. Throughout all of this, the Fellow will maintain and build our online community and hold the reins on publicizing Farm events and communicating across a variety of audiences, both within and beyond Duke. In all public-facing programming, the Fellow will help support, connect, and extend our network/community. 

As the Sloss Fellow, you will build DCF’s capacity along with your own, becoming a key player in our small but mighty mission-driven organization. This is a great opportunity to explore careers in sustainable food systems, non-profits, and education, and to gain transferable skills in research, public programming, communications, teaching, and facilitation. Your work and learning will inform best practice in program development and program evaluation, both at DCF and in our peer campus farm network. While we welcome candidates with horticultural experience, this is not a position designed to cultivate technical competencies in sustainable agriculture. 

This is a two-year position compensated at $41,000 annually, and includes Duke’s health and dental benefits. The Fellow can expect to start work the third week in May.   

Eligibility requirements: 

• within three years of graduation (undergraduate, graduate or professional) from any school in the Triangle, with preference given for Duke graduates 

• self-starting and energized to support mission-driven work
• has experience in direct stakeholder engagement and/or facilitation 
• comfortable engaging a wide range of audiences and communities
• strong in their research skills, and written and verbal communications skills
• adept in basic Google and Microsoft skills (Drive, Sheets, Docs, Outlook)
• adept in basic graphic design and social media skills (Canva, InDesign, Instagram, Facebook, Emma email marketing, Duke Groups, basic website maintenance)
• enthusiastically committed to the position through June 2026 

Our ideal candidate will also have: 

• strong demonstrated interest in intersectional food systems work
• experience serving as an ambassador for a group or program 
• prior experience with sustainable agriculture and/or campus farms

As a program, we are actively seeking to identify talented candidates with a diverse range of life experiences and identities to join our team. More details about the position and its job responsibilities can be found here. 

Still have questions? Email dukecampusfarm@duke.edu 

We will start reviewing applications on a rolling basis. Position will be open until filled.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

Work requires communications, analytical and organizational skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program.

Experience

None required beyond education. ORAN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Job Code: 00000383 ADMINISTRATIVE INTERN
Job Level: 00

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