Company description

Nourish Colorado is a non-profit organization committed to increasing access to nutritious, local food and building a more equitable food system across Colorado. We conduct policy advocacy for systems change, manage programs that increase food access and support local producers, and work alongside community partners to inspire collective action.

We hold many values sacred in our work; the primary one being building an organization that at its core is focused on equity. We work to establish practices and policies that advance multiracial and multicultural shared power in the food systems space specifically. We aim to do this throughout our organization – from who and how we hire, to where we bank, with whom we advocate, how we write grants and how close we hold our partnerships.

We believe that traditional hiring practices have historically and systemically marginalized entire groups of people — including people of color, people from different socio-economic backgrounds, women, and people in the LGBTQIA+ community, to name a few. We believe that we are better as an organization when we work to deconstruct barriers and build a team that has authentic representation from diverse communities, backgrounds, and beliefs. Hence, we strongly encourage qualified candidates from those mentioned, as well as other marginalized communities, to apply for roles within our team.

To learn more about our vision, values, and organizational commitments, please visit us at https://nourishcolorado.org/about/. Please read on and apply to join our diverse team of food systems and non-profit leaders and to help us do all this better.

Job description

Position Summary: This is a new position at Nourish Colorado that will support the work of the Healthy Food in Institutions Team as it implements the statewide Local Food Program Training and Technical Assistance Contract. This position will provide key administrative tasks such as event planning (pre-to-post tasks) and logistical support, webinar and training planning, CRM tracking and management, and team scheduling, agenda building, meeting notes, and follow up task support. The position offers an exciting opportunity to play a key role in an organization seen as a national model for implementing scratch-based cooking and local procurement capacity building. In addition, this position will support Nourish Colorado organizational support with staff meeting agenda planning and meeting notes, and relevant event coordination.

Immediate Expectations:

You will provide key event planning support for our buyer/seller events scheduled in Oct-Dec and our Spring Training Intensives scheduled March-May 2027.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

Training & Events Coordination (40%)

-Coordinate the event planning logistics (buyer/seller events, training intensives, and culinary trainings as needed), including but not limited to:

-Pre-Event: Schedule training dates, handle recruitment and registration management, and coordinate travel and other event logistics (event space booking, catering support, etc.), event communications, workflows, printing of materials

-Day of support

-Coordinate follow-up support (e.g. collating evaluations and materials, photos, follow-up folders, etc.)

-Support formatting of handouts, finalizing recipe templates, email communications, printing and collating materials

-Where needed, assist subcontractors and regional coordinators with logistics (e.g. coordinating travel and technical assistance support, workshop support, event logistics, etc.)

Healthy Food in Institutions Program Support (35%)

-Support the Nourish Colorado team to document and evaluate best practices, reach, and impact of the Local Food Program to inform the growth of the program in the future
-Scheduling recurring calls with institutions, producers, partners, subawardees, coordinators, etc.
-Participating (and potentially eventually facilitating) in calls and assisting with notetaking/data compilation
Colorado Local Food Program Guidebook website support – ensuring content is up to date, flagging changes/broken links, uploading new resources and/or links to the Guidebook, coordinating translation of resources, etc.
-Support strategic planning updates
-Support LFP Team Leads with updating project management boards
-Support programmatic related annual and quarterly reports

Communications Support (15%)

-Working closely with Nourish Colorado’s Strategic Initiative & Communications Manager, increase program visibility and assist in the development of marketing and communication efforts; promote the program’s successes to attract funders and establish Nourish Colorado as a leader in local procurement
-Support copyediting of resources, reports, handouts, etc.
-Create customized reports for both internal and external stakeholders when requested
-Create content for social media, blogs, website, and other tools for showcasing the team’s work

Cross-Org and Nourish Organizational Support (10%)

-Build agendas and take notes for weekly staff meetings in collaboration with the Digital Operations and Culture Manager
-Coordinate catering logistics for in-person staff meetings and relevant all-team gatherings.
-Manage lodging arrangements for relevant all-team gatherings involving the Nourish Advisory Board (NAB) and Board members.
-Be available and responsive to program contractors, partners, Nourish Colorado staff, institutional contacts, and other key partners, as needed
-Provide support, content and expertise for communications, marketing, and fundraising efforts
-Actively participate in at least one working group, committee, or coalition
-Accurately complete administrative duties (e.g. time tracking, expense coding, etc.)
-Participate in and actively engage with organization-wide monthly Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) meetings aimed at fostering connection and belonging across Nourish
-Contribute to team-specific JEDI projects and initiatives, supporting the integration of equity and inclusion into day-to-day work


Qualifications and Experience

-Event planning experience is required
-Technologically savvy and organized Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Google Drive
-Ability to manage, organize, and analyze information
-Experience in project management systems (ClickUp preferred) is required
-Ability to function well in a fully remote environment
-Keen attention to detail
-Proactive approach to problem identification and resolution
-Ability to adapt and manage complex change
-Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to work collaboratively
-Sensitivity and experience working with diverse populations, cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds
-Commitment to Nourish Colorado’s mission, vision, goals, and organizational values

Nice to Have:
-Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus
-Some experience with Canva or graphic design
-Deep customer service and relationship building skills
-General understanding of K12 meal programs
-Interest in local food procurement

This position would ideally start on August 3rd, 2026, and is fully funded for one year. Extension of position is based on performance and available funding.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, $56,485 - $75,000

Location

job can be done remotely

Application instructions

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Deadline

July 03, 2026