Agroecology Europe seeks administration officer to anchor European food transition
The Brussels-based network coordinating Europe's agroecological transition is hiring operations capacity — a quiet signal of organizational maturity in a movement linking farmers, researchers, and activists across borders.
Agroecology Europe, the 200-member network coordinating Europe’s transition toward ecologically grounded farming systems, is recruiting an Administration & Finance Officer based in Brussels. The nine-month contract — dependent on funding, with potential extension — reflects the organization’s trajectory from coalition to operational entity managing EU-funded projects, membership administration, and cross-border coordination.
Founded in 2016, the network brings together farmers, NGOs, students, and academics around a shared challenge: how to move agroecology from research practice to European policy architecture. The role’s responsibilities — CRM systems, payroll, membership onboarding, EU grant reporting — reveal the infrastructural work beneath any governance transition. Someone must maintain the databases, organize the meetings, track the renewals.
The position’s requirements tell their own story: experience with Horizon Europe and LIFE operating grants, fluency in English and French, authorization to work in Belgium. This is coordination work in the literal sense — holding together a distributed network attempting to reshape food systems at continental scale. The application deadline is March 31, with interviews scheduled for mid-April.
It’s a reminder that transformative practice requires administrative capacity. Networks need anchoring. Movements need infrastructure. Even — especially — those reimagining how humans grow food.