Also called: Identification & Recruitment Specialist, Migrant Education Outreach Worker
Drives to farms, packing plants and trailer parks to find children of migrant farmworkers and enroll them in free school help, tutoring and summer programs.
At dawn you visit a berry farm where families just arrived for the harvest. You talk with parents in Spanish, check if the family moved for farm or fishing work, and sign the kids up for after-school tutoring and summer school. Families move often, so you are always searching for new arrivals.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. High school diploma; bilingual skills and community ties matter most. Trained on the job.
Ways in: On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Education, Social Work, Spanish.
Growing about average. Steady, funded by the federal Migrant Education Program.
Low risk for 10 years. Nothing replaces showing up at farms and earning the trust of families who move often.
Age 18+. One way to start: Apply to your state's Migrant Education Program office or district; Spanish skills help a lot First: Background check and a driver's license; trained on the job
Classes: Spanish, Sociology, Driver education.
Official data: O*NET occupation 21-1099.
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