Conscious Kitchen is on a mission to transform how public schools feed their students, bringing fresh, local, organic meals into cafeterias while supporting organic farms and building school food systems that last.
We’re looking for people who want their contributions to matter in a concrete, visible way. This is hands-on, collaborative work with a small team that moves quickly and is driving real transformation for the students, districts, farms, and communities we work with.
Conscious Kitchen is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse team and a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage a wide range of candidates to apply. Conscious Kitchen prohibits discrimination in hiring, governance, and programs on the basis of race, sex, ethnicity, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Take a look at our open positions below. If our open roles aren’t quite a fit, but you want to submit your resume for general consideration, please email info@consciouskitchen.org. Thank you!
Full-Time | Hybrid (Sausalito, CA) | $75,000–$90,000 DOE
Help Transform the Future of School Food
Every school day, California serves millions of meals to more than 6 million public school students.
At Conscious Kitchen, we believe every one of those meals is an opportunity—to nourish students, strengthen local economies, support organic agriculture, and build a healthier, more resilient future.
Our North Star is bold: helping build a school food system where all 6 million California public school students have access to fresh, local, organic, scratch-cooked meals—creating a model for the nation.
Today, we partner with more than 100 California school districts serving approximately 1.8 million students. By bringing together school nutrition professionals, farmers, distributors, public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and funders, we’re creating practical solutions that schools can implement, farmers can grow with, and communities can build upon.
We’re looking for an entrepreneurial, collaborative, and highly organized Senior Program & Grants Manager to help lead this next chapter of growth.
This is an opportunity for someone who believes meaningful change happens when bold ideas are paired with thoughtful execution, strong relationships, and a willingness to roll up their sleeves. If you’re energized by building partnerships, solving complex challenges, and helping shape the future of school food, we’d love to hear from you.
Your Impact
Working closely with the Executive Director and the Conscious Kitchen team, you’ll help turn vision into action by leading statewide initiatives that strengthen school food systems across California while creating models that can inspire communities nationwide.
You will:
- Lead grant-funded initiatives from planning through implementation, evaluation, and reporting.
- Build and strengthen partnerships with school districts, farmers, distributors, public agencies, foundations, nonprofit organizations, and other key stakeholders.
- Develop practical tools, playbooks, workshops, and resources that help schools expand organic procurement, seasonal purchasing, and scratch cooking.
- Manage grants, budgets, timelines, deliverables, and reporting while supporting proposal development and fundraising efforts.
- Convene meetings, trainings, and statewide gatherings that connect partners, foster collaboration, and accelerate progress.
- Supervise interns, fellows, consultants, and project teams supporting program implementation.
- Capture, evaluate, and communicate lessons learned and program outcomes to strengthen and expand our impact.
The Person We’re Looking For
You see possibility where others see complexity.
You’re entrepreneurial, proactive, and resourceful. You take initiative, enjoy solving problems, and don’t wait to be asked what needs to be done. You thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and enjoy building relationships that bring people together around a shared purpose.
You’re equally comfortable facilitating a meeting, developing a project plan, writing a grant proposal, managing multiple priorities, or rolling up your sleeves to help wherever needed. You communicate with clarity, build trust through follow-through, and take pride in delivering high-quality work.
Above all, you’re motivated by meaningful food systems work and excited to help create a healthier future for California’s students, farmers, schools, and communities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and equivalent professional experience considered in food systems, agriculture, environmental studies, nutrition, public health, education, nonprofit management, or a related field.
- 3–5 years of professional experience managing complex programs, grants, partnerships, or multi-stakeholder initiatives.
- Excellent project management, organizational, and facilitation skills.
- Exceptional writing and communication skills, including grant writing and reporting.
- Experience managing budgets, timelines, deliverables, and multiple concurrent priorities.
- Demonstrated success building collaborative relationships with diverse partners.
- Passion for healthy food, sustainable agriculture, public education, and building healthier, more resilient communities.
- Proficiency with Google Workspace and Microsoft Office.
- The job requires travel throughout California. Personal car required.
Why Join Conscious Kitchen?
This is more than a job. It’s an opportunity to help shape one of the country’s most innovative school food initiatives.
You’ll work alongside visionary school nutrition professionals, organic farmers, public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropic partners to build programs that can ultimately benefit all 6 million California public school students while creating a model that can inspire communities across the nation.
You’ll join a passionate, entrepreneurial team that believes the best solutions are built together—through collaboration, curiosity, and a shared commitment to improving the health of people and the planet.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: $75,000–$90,000 DOE
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid vacation, holidays, and PTO
- Flexible hybrid work environment
- Professional development opportunities
- A collaborative, mission-driven team committed to making meaningful change
We believe every student deserves access to healthy, delicious food—and that by working together, we can help build a school food system that nourishes people, communities, and the planet.
Conscious Kitchen, a program of Turning Green, is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Please send a cover letter and resume to info@consciouskitchen.org with the subject line Senior Program & Grants Manager.
Full-Time | Hybrid (Sausalito, CA)
Help Build the Future of School Food
Every school day, California serves millions of meals to more than 6 million public school students.
At Conscious Kitchen, we believe every one of those meals is an opportunity to nourish students, strengthen local economies, support organic agriculture, and build a healthier, more resilient future.
Our North Star is bold: helping build a school food system where all 6 million California public school students have access to fresh, local, organic food, creating a model for the nation.
Today, Conscious Kitchen works with more than 125 California school districts representing approximately 2 million students. We bring together school nutrition professionals, organic farmers and ranchers, food makers, distributors, chefs, public agencies, nonprofit organizations, funders, and partners to build practical solutions that strengthen the systems behind school meals.
We are looking for a highly organized, resourceful, collaborative Program Coordinator to support the many moving pieces that bring this work to life.
This is an ideal role for someone who loves making things happen: keeping projects organized, following through on details, supporting meetings and events, maintaining strong communication, and making sure important tasks and deadlines do not fall through the cracks.
The Role
The Program Coordinator will work across Conscious Kitchen programs, grants, events, partnerships, and communications to provide the day-to-day coordination that keeps our work connected and moving forward. Working closely with the Senior Program & Grants Manager and other members of the Conscious Kitchen team, the Coordinator will help maintain timelines and trackers, organize meetings and events, support grant deliverables, gather program data, coordinate outreach, and provide practical support across active initiatives.
Because much of Conscious Kitchen’s work is interconnected, this person will also help identify and track the places where programs come together, including the Recipe Project + Recipe Dashboard, Organic School Food Purchasing Cooperative, statewide workshops, procurement initiatives, and grant-funded projects.
This is a hands-on role for someone who is thoughtful, dependable, detail-oriented, and excited to support a small team doing ambitious work.
Your Impact
You will:
- Support grant-funded initiatives by tracking timelines, deliverables, reporting requirements, documentation, and upcoming deadlines across active grants.
- Maintain the communication systems that keep work moving, including project calendars, shared trackers, meeting schedules, action items, and regular team check-ins.
- Coordinate meetings, trainings, workshops, and other program activities, including scheduling, participant communication, materials, preparation, logistics, notes, and follow-up.
- Support Conscious Kitchen events before, during, and after gatherings, helping with registration, materials, on-site logistics, partner needs, documentation, and follow-up.
- Track connections across Conscious Kitchen programs and projects so that information, opportunities, commitments, and next steps are shared across the team and nothing falls through the cracks.
- Compile and organize program outcomes, data, stories, and lessons learned to support grant reporting, evaluation, presentations, communications, and program improvement.
- Support partnership outreach by maintaining contact lists and records, coordinating scheduling, tracking follow-up, and helping organize communication with school districts, farmers, food makers, funders, agencies, and other partners.
- Support proposal development and grant submissions through research, document preparation, formatting, gathering required materials, and deadline tracking.
- Support communications initiatives, including gathering content and information for social media, newsletters, blog posts, program updates, and other communications.
- Help coordinate interns and fellows, including assigning routine tasks, communicating priorities, checking in on progress, and helping ensure work is completed on time.
- Provide general program and administrative support wherever needed to help the Conscious Kitchen team work effectively.
The Person We’re Looking For
You are the person who helps keep all the pieces connected.
You are highly organized and genuinely enjoy creating order around complex work. You notice details, remember follow-ups, keep track of deadlines, and take satisfaction in helping a team stay one step ahead.
You are proactive and comfortable taking ownership of a task while also knowing when to ask questions. You do not wait for every detail to be spelled out before getting started, and you are good at figuring out the next practical step.
You communicate clearly and warmly and enjoy working with many different kinds of people. On any given day, that could mean coordinating with a school nutrition director, following up with a farmer, preparing materials for a workshop, updating a grant tracker, helping an intern prioritize their work, or gathering information for a newsletter.
You are comfortable in an entrepreneurial environment where priorities can evolve and people work collaboratively across roles. You bring flexibility without losing track of the details.
Most importantly, you care about meaningful work and are excited to contribute to a healthier food system for students, farmers, schools, and communities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in food systems, agriculture, environmental studies, nutrition, public health, education, nonprofit management, communications, or a related field.
- 2–4 years of relevant professional experience in program coordination, project management, nonprofit work, education, events, food systems, grants, communications, or a related field.
- Excellent organizational and project coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and details at once.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated follow-through, attention to detail, initiative, and sound judgment.
- Experience maintaining project trackers, calendars, databases, shared documents, or similar organizational systems.
- Comfortable coordinating meetings, events, trainings, or multi-partner projects.
- Experience supporting grant writing, reporting, research, data collection, proposal development is a plus.
- Experience with communications, social media, newsletters, or content development is a plus.
- Interest in school food, organic agriculture, food systems, sustainability, public education, or related mission-driven work strongly preferred.
- Proficiency with Google Workspace and Microsoft Office.
- Ability to travel throughout California as needed. Access to a personal vehicle required.
- Spanish speaking is a plus.
Why Join Conscious Kitchen?
This is an opportunity to be part of an ambitious effort to transform school food across California.
You will work alongside school nutrition professionals, organic farmers and ranchers, food makers, chefs, distributors, public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropic partners working toward a shared goal: making better food available to students while strengthening the food system that supports them.
You will join a small, entrepreneurial team where your work will matter. You will see projects move from ideas to real programs, workshops, partnerships, recipes, purchasing opportunities, and meals served to students across California.
And you will play an important role in making sure the details behind that work are organized, connected, and carried through.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary, commensurate with experience
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage available
- Paid vacation, sick time and holidays
- Flexible hybrid work environment
- Professional development opportunities
- A collaborative, mission-driven team committed to meaningful systems change
Conscious Kitchen, a program of Turning Green, is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Please send a cover letter and resume to info@consciouskitchen.org with the subject line Program Coordinator | Conscious Kitchen