Company description

Kitchen Table Advisors (KTA) works with under-resourced farmers and ranchers to fuel their long-term success and transform the food system. We cultivate trusted relationships, provide practical business advising, and build opportunities for equitable access to land, capital, and markets. Our vision is that sustainable farmers and ranchers are thriving and valued as leaders of vibrant, community-based food systems rooted in equitable distribution of power and resources. Kitchen Table Advisors’ work aims to both directly support farmers and ranchers, as well as shift the ecosystem in which they operate, to be more supportive of their agricultural practices and their lived experiences. We focus our efforts on land, markets and capital, which we see as key levers of change as small sustainable farms and ranches strive towards long-term economic viability.

Job description

Farm Business Advisors play a central role in delivering Kitchen Table Advisors' program services throughout our programmatic regions. Business Advisors provide in-depth 1:1 business advising to underresourced farmers and ranchers in Northern and Central California in order to fuel their long-term success and transform the food system. Business advisors cultivate trusted relationships, provide practical business advising, and collaborate across and outside of the organization to build opportunities for equitable access to land, capital, and markets. They will live our organizational values of equity, empathy, transformational leadership, ecological responsibility, and resilience.

The Business Advisor will report to the Associate Regional Program Director, and will be part of a broader team of business advisors.

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with entrepreneurial and lived experience as well as language fluency in Spanish to put their skills to use in service of farmers.

Responsibilities

The primary responsibilities of this role include:

1-on-1 Business Advising with Farmers and Ranchers (60%)Build trust-based relationships with farmer/rancher clientsDirectly manage a portfolio of active and alumni clients
Participate in ongoing client lifecycle beginning with recruitment, supporting clients through inflection points, including the possibility of farm transitions/exits
Advise clients in the following areas in order to enable them to make sound business decisions:Business planning
Markets and marketing
Financial managementRecord-keeping systems
Cash flow projections and budgeting
Developing a crop plan
Access to capital and land
Organizational management
Connect clients to the tools, knowledge, skills, and resources they need to build resilient and viable businesses.
Proactively leverage the expertise of other KTA team members in order to assist clients
Lend expertise to other Business Advisors as necessary to support their clients
Program, Regional, and Team Responsibilities (30%)Participate in regional partnerships with nonprofits, farm technical assistance providers, and others to provide support to clients
Maintain professional and positive relationships with partners for the benefit of clients and the organization
Report to and collaborate with your Regional Program Director, ensuring alignment with regional and organizational goals
Actively participate in regular team meetings and 1:1 check ins
Participate in a regular reflection and feedback process with your Regional Program Director
Create an annual work plan based on organizational and professional goals that you hold yourself accountable to and communicate progress with your team
Support or participate in Program activities, including: client gatherings, client communication, client recruitment, client training spaces, etc.
Collaborate with Operations team to capture and manage client data in Salesforce in a timely manner, and to provide ongoing system design feedback
Provide input on program goals in order to inform the development of program strategy by program leadership
Collaborate with Development and Communications teams to support activities as necessary, including but not limited to coordinating farm tours, photo/storytelling opportunities, sharing client stories for grants and communications, etc.
Support regional ecosystem efforts as needed
Participate in conferences as identified by manager: represent KTA, engage in networking, build relationships, identify new resources, and/or actively participate as part of the event.
Organizational Resilience and Shared Leadership (10%)Participate in shared leadership activities including team meeting facilitation, note taking, etc.
Participate in interview processes for new team members as needed.
Perform regular administrative tasks in a timely manner, including time sheets, expense reports, meeting scheduling, etc.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, varies DOE, $70,000.00 - $90,000.00

Application instructions

Deadline

September 03, 2025