Company description

About The Charlie Cart Project
Founded in 2015, The Charlie Cart Project's (CCP) mission is to make hands-on food education accessible everywhere children gather to learn, giving kids the knowledge and confidence to make healthy choices for life. Today, The Charlie Cart Project works primarily with schools, libraries and community organizations, which use the Charlie Cart to deliver hands-on cooking lessons and nutrition programs to their constituents.

The program centers on a portable, compact mobile kitchen, paired with a 54-lesson, K-5 curriculum aligned to Common Core standards, training and resources, and access to a national network of food and nutrition educators to seed and support impactful programs. Over its 10-year history, The Charlie Cart Project has worked with nearly 2,000 educators across 700+ sites in 48 states, with its program footprint growing by roughly 10% each year. In this next phase of growth, the organization will focus on aligning our program, sales, and development functions to drive large-volume cart placements, and seeding strong program impact through comprehensive site onboarding and strategic network development.

The organization is led by a dedicated governing Board, a dynamic Executive Director, and a small but mighty, skilled and passionate staff. For more information about the Charlie Cart Project, please visit charliecart.org.

Job description

Job Title: Community Manager
Reports to: Director of Impact
Position Type: Full-time, 40 hours per week
Location: Remote - Bay Area preferred
Application Deadline: July 31, 2026

What You’ll Do

The Community Manager is responsible for supporting Charlie Cart network members in becoming effective and confident food educators. Reporting to the Director of Impact, the Community Manager will lead high-touch onboarding programs for Charlie Cart’s network of 700+ sites. The Community Manager will be responsible for communicating individually and collectively with network members, building engagement and loyalty, and supporting network members as they build their skills as food educators. The Community Manager will also support program evaluation and communications, as needed.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Act as the primary face of the organization for our network of Charlie Cart educators, leading member outreach and responding to network needs as they arise.
• Support the comprehensive onboarding process for each new Charlie Cart site, collecting data on its efficacy and updating and improving on the process as needed.
• Lead program communications with new and existing sites, including but not limited to monthly newsletters. Develop systems to ensure on-going, consistent communication across sites.
• Build site network engagement through oversight of an online community and quarterly community zoom chats, ensuring strong site loyalty and engendering inter-site learning and connection.
• In partnership with the Director of Impact develop and lead the Charlie Cart Champion program, identifying strong educators from the CCP network and connecting them to opportunities to represent CCP as trainers, at conferences, or in the media.
• Execute, analyze, report on and implement suggestions from the Annual Member Survey and other opportunities for formal and informal site feedback collection.
• Coordinate with the Director of Customer of Engagement and the Administrative Coordinator to ensure all site information is properly entered and updated into organizational digital systems.
• Maintain strong internal database and organizational systems, ensuring robust tracking of site demographics, statistics, and program participation.
• In collaboration with the Director of Impact and external consultants, participate in data collection and program evaluation.
• Proactively identify opportunities for program improvement, leading with innovation and a solutions-oriented approach.

What You’ll Bring

• Passion for and excitement about food and nutrition education for kids
• Experience working with and/or training educators (school and community-based)
• Experience working as a hands-on food educator at the school or community level preferred
• Experience facilitating meetings, classes, or other learning experiences (remote or in person)
• Flexible, collaborative, creative, adaptable work style
• Sense of humor
• Non-profit experience preferred

Key Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in program coordination or program management preferred
• Demonstrated experience building food education programs for kids and/or adults
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Facility with technical systems, including Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Salesforce, and Mailchimp; experience using Salesforce to manage workflows strongly preferred
• Solutions-oriented approach to problem solving; not afraid of obstacles
• Able to work well with a diverse workforce and customer base
• Self-starter, intrinsically motivated

Compensation & Benefits

The salary range for this position is $75,000 - $85,000, depending on experience. This is a full-time position with benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance and generous PTO. Position offers significant growth opportunities with a small organization that is making a broad impact on a national level.

The Charlie Cart Project is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and supporting their team with equity in all aspects of employment including recruitment, hiring, promotions, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training. The Charlie Cart Project prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind and is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, age, gender or sexual orientation, family or parental status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws. All are encouraged to apply.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, varies DOE, $75,000.00 - $85,000.00

Location

job can be done remotely

Application instructions

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Deadline

July 31, 2026