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About the role
USDA Engagement: Own Rainmaker’s relationship with USDA end to end, specifically NRCS at the national headquarters, regional, and local office levels, along with FSA, RMA, ARS, ERS, and NIFA. Build durable relationships with senior career and political leadership, and understand where decision authority actually sits between Washington and the states.
What they're looking for
- Thorough working knowledge of how USDA operates at both the national and state/regional level, including the relationship between headquarters policy and state office implementation
- In-depth command of USDA conservation and water programs, and how producers actually access them
- Demonstrated command of the Farm Bill: how it is written, reauthorized, and funded, and how the conservation and research titles interact with annual appropriations
- Track record of developing programs and securing federal funding for them, including familiarity with the mechanics of federal grant, cooperative agreement, and cost-share processes
- Current relationships across USDA, the Congressional agriculture committees, and the Washington agricultural community
- Substantive understanding of western water policy and the agricultural water landscape
More about this role
Make it rain. Make Snow. Make Earth Habitable.
Rainmaker builds and deploys audacious technologies that work with nature to create an abundant, habitable planet. We are modernizing proven cloud-seeding science with weather-resistant UAS, radar and satellite observations, numerical weather prediction, novel sensing and validation systems, and sustainable seeding technologies. We are building an integrated system to make more freshwater available to farms, ecosystems, and communities.
Our ambition is bold, but we pursue it with humility. We take on difficult problems in the real world with technical rigor, grit, integrity, and an openness to learning and course-correcting. We are hiring individuals with evidence of exceptional ability. If you want to build systems that endure, restore, and provide, and help deliver the future we were promised, we want to hear from you.
Rainmaker is pioneering a modern precipitation enhancement cloud seeding system to solve water scarcity. We develop and incorporate radar validation, weather-resistant UAS, and numerical weather modeling to make water abundant.
As Rainmaker’s Director of Agricultural Development, you will own our engagement with the...
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