Careers – Rise Against Hunger

Opportunities That Reward

It takes an inspired team to feed millions of people worldwide year after year. Our employees come from all walks of life, bringing their diverse backgrounds, expertise and talents to serve one goal—ending hunger for good. Are you looking for a career that brings true fulfillment? Join our team and discover a culture that rewards your role in making an impact.

Rise, Engage & Empower

Join us in the bigger story of ridding the world of hunger. You can make a difference every day with us.

Our Benefits

Health

Your role at Rise Against Hunger deserves a robust benefits package. To ensure you have comprehensive health coverage, we offer medical, dental and vision plans, plus other ways to save up for your health expenses.

Retirement

For as long as you work for us, we want to help you prepare for retirement. As a Rise Against Hunger employee, you are automatically enrolled in our 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan, and you can choose your level of contribution.

Paid Time Off

We value your need to regenerate off the clock. We prioritize empowering our people and creating excellence for our partners and the people we serve, and our leave policies reflect just that by providing you the time you need. Other perks include working remotely and flex-time opportunities.

Our Values

Stewardship

We ensure every resource serves our mission.

Impact Focus

We maximize impact for the people we serve.

Adaptability

We adapt and persevere to make progress possible.

Accountability

We hold ourselves accountable to our work and to each other.

Authenticity

We show up with honesty, clarity and courage.

Open Positions

Strength, Stability And Hope

The gift that filled Nelly’s table.

“We were yielding very little, and the crops could not sustain us the whole year,” Nelly remembers. As a mother of seven and a farmer with two decades of experience, the stress of inconsistent yields was all-consuming. A poor harvest not only strained her family financially, but also limited their own meals to just two a day. Their story reflects that of many in their fishing and farming village near a lake in the Karonga district of northern Malawi. Here, heavy rainfall makes conventional farming methods nearly impossible. The entire village is, quite literally, saturated in food insecurity — a reality that leaves families struggling to survive season after season without a dependable source of nourishment.

In 2019, Nelly began participating in Harvesting Prosperity and Resilience, a sustainable agriculture project implemented by Rise Against Hunger in partnership with the Foundation for Community Support Services (FOCUS). The project works with 3,100 smallholder farmers in Malawi’s Karonga and Mzimba districts to strengthen food and nutrition security by improving production methods, nutrition practices and household income.

Just one year later, Nelly was ready to expand the variety of crops on her farm. What land once only produced maize began to flourish with sesame, cowpeas, rice and groundnuts during the rainy season (summer), as well as maize and vegetables during the dry season (winter). Through climate-smart agriculture training, she learned new techniques like manure making, pit planting and mulching, crop rotation and intercropping. Equipped with these tools, Nelly’s farm began to thrive.

After the 2023–2024 growing season, she sold enough produce to purchase an ox cart. Her harvests in 2024-2025 season yielded over 500 pounds of crops, including 22 bags of groundnuts, seven bags of maize, 12 tins of sesame and three bags of rice. With this surplus, she was able to invest in a motorbike, which she now uses to transport African doughnuts (mandasi) that she cooks and sells — creating yet another source of income for her family.

The transformation reaches far beyond her finances. Nelly now has the stability to provide for her husband and children. “I am able to eat different food types, pay school fees for my children and fulfill the visions that I have made with my family,” she beams. “I am now sleeping peacefully without any fears of food or paying school fees for the children.”

Her leadership has also grown. Today, Nelly serves as a leader in the Harvesting Prosperity and Resilience project, teaching other farmers in her district to adopt climate-resilient, labor-saving practices. By sharing her knowledge, she is multiplying her impact — empowering her neighbors to experience the same transformation she has achieved.

Across Nelly’s community, food and economic security are on the rise. Lombani, a government extension officer for the region, explains, “I can see the community is being transformed in the sense that in the area, there is food, income and nutrition security. Development is also happening at the household level.”

Nelly reflects on what it means to invest in holistic programs that address the root causes of hunger: “We are now healthy people. Children are going to school after eating their breakfast, having high yields and different types of crops due to conservation agriculture practices. With the support from the project, we have food, and we can access other food items from the market after selling our produce.”

This is the gift that fills: a future full of stability, strength and hope. It fills tables with food, families with security and communities with the resources to thrive. It’s an investment in futures rooted in resilience and hope.