Program Manager

Job Title: Program Manager

Company: Kids In Nutrition (KIN)

Salary: $60,000–$65,000, commensurate with experience. This is a full-time, non-exempt (overtime-eligible) position; hours worked are tracked and any overtime is paid in accordance with federal and state law.

Benefits: Health benefits, 401k Matching, Paid Time Off

Hours: 40 hours/week (Requires flexible scheduling to accommodate staff and student volunteer availability, including occasional evenings or weekends)

Location: Remote

About Us

Kids In Nutrition (KIN) is a nationwide, student-led movement dedicated to food justice, climate resilience, and improved health outcomes for youth and families through food literacy and access. By mobilizing trained university volunteers as near-peer mentors to deliver trauma-informed, culturally responsive curricula, KIN inspires children with the foundational nutrition knowledge needed to build healthy habits and make informed, environmentally friendly food choices as they grow.

KIN makes nutrition education fun, accessible, and engaging for kids and their families. Most importantly, our grassroots model is led by youth, for youth. Our work focuses on Title I communities, where systemic barriers in education, healthcare, and food access contribute to higher rates of poor health outcomes and climate vulnerability. Through early education, KIN works to prevent chronic disease, advance health equity, and cultivate future leaders in public and planetary health. Because health begins with YOUth.

Position Overview

A Program Manager at Kids In Nutrition is not just a job, it is a lasting career in public health and youth empowerment.

KIN is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive Program Manager to manage nationwide chapter operations, compliance, and reporting, reporting directly to the CEO to maintain and drive growing impact. This role is the operational backbone of our chapters and the success, bridging communications, resources, and guidance between KIN Core and nationwide student-led chapters. You will lead chapter onboarding and maintenance, manage program evaluation, feedback, and revisions, ensure strict impact and financial reporting compliance, manage specialized grant tracks, oversee mission-aligned social and website marketing, and provide direct support to KIN volunteers across the country. Because our volunteers are full-time university students, this role requires flexible working hours to align with evening or dynamic student schedules.

You need to love what you do and be personally inspired by our mission in health and environmental sustainability—living it in your own lifestyle. KIN is looking for a candidate that does not just view this as a job, but a movement that they are inspired to lead. Our team of four is small but mighty, and we are looking for a creative, HIGHLY organized, driven co-pilot to work closely with the CEO. As a key role in a fast-growing, agile organization, this position offers high visibility and direct room for long-term executive and leadership advancement as KIN expands nationwide.

This position reports to the CEO of Kids In Nutrition and is a full-time, non-exempt position.

Who We Are Seeking

You are a thoughtful communicator with a collaborative spirit. Meeting new people and empowering young leaders gives you energy and inspiration. You are skilled at managing multiple projects and platforms. Technology is your friend – you’re a problem-solver when it comes to tech glitches and hiccups. You are excited to support a mission-driven team working to create a more equitable and sustainable school food system. You love food and the culture surrounding it, with a deep appreciation for the people who grow and prepare it, as well as the community they serve. You are proactive, detail-oriented, and ready to dive in and contribute meaningfully to a small, high-impact organization.

Our Workplace Culture

Kids In Nutrition supports a culture that prioritizes integrity, high professional standards, and working successfully with diverse colleagues, program beneficiaries, and community partners. This includes active participation in promoting a healthy workplace culture through organizational diversity and program assessment for equity and inclusion. We strive to build a culture of cooperation and mutual support and value flexibility, resilience, optimism, curiosity, and a sense of shared purpose.

Key Responsibilities

1. Executive Support & Team Coordination

• Strategic Execution: Partner closely with the CEO to translate high-level vision into actionable projects and integrate new ideas into core programming.
• Team Alignment: Coordinate schedules, workflows, and deliverables for key operational and education support roles, providing ongoing guidance to keep projects on track.
• General Administration: Execute strategic initiatives and flexible administrative duties as assigned by executive leadership to support evolving organizational needs.

2. Chapter Operations & Expansion

• Lifecycle Management: Oversee the setup, onboarding, and nationwide deployment of chapters across university sites, ensuring good standing with partnerships, universities, and KIN Core compliance.
• Workspace & Infrastructure: Structure and maintain digital workspaces and central resource hubs to ensure teams have seamless access to tools and educational materials.
• Capacity Building: Strengthen training systems and operational workflows to support long-term organizational growth and scalability.

3. Program & Curriculum Management

• Program Strategy: Lead the development, delivery, and rigorous evaluation of educational programs to ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes across all sites.
• Technical Support: Serve as the primary technical point of contact for internal systems, custom portals, and operational tools used by remote teams.

4. Leadership, Engagement & Partnerships

• Chapter Support: Conduct regular check-ins and operational evaluations to mentor local chapter leaders and maintain active feedback loops.
• Partner & Volunteer Strategy: Oversee volunteer engagement approaches and cultivate sustainable partnerships with fellow nonprofits to expand community reach.

5. Compliance, Grants & Risk Oversight

• Grant Management: Monitor specialized grant tracks to ensure strict alignment with funding parameters, target deliverables, and regional priorities.
• Grant Proposals: Support grant proposal development and reporting.
• Legal Compliance: Audit and track nationwide compliance, legal agreements, and volunteer documentation to safeguard organizational standards.

6. Impact, Finance & Community Outreach

• Financial Oversight: Perform routine audits of chapter budgets, expense tracking, and asset reporting to ensure fiscal accountability.
• Impact & Reporting: Synthesize program data to drive end-of-cycle evaluations, contribute to public impact reporting, and support community outreach initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in program management, non-profit operations, executive leadership, and/or volunteer coordination.
• Project Management: Excellent project management skills. Thrives managing multiple deadlines in a fast-paced, collaborative environment while delivering a high standard of excellence.
• Technical Proficiency:
• Advanced command of Google Workspace (Drive, Sheets, Forms, Calendar)
• Proficient in Slack administration
• Proficient in Quickbooks with some financial management experience (preferred)
• Proficient in Microsoft Teams
• Comfortable with managing custom portals/databases and learning management systems
• General knowledge of social media platforms such as Instagram, Linked In, and Facebook (preferred)
• Website development experience is a plus (particularly Wix)
• Experience with Rippling is a plus
• Grants, Data, & Financial Acumen: Proven experience tracking budgets, matching receipt pipelines, and auditing data logs. Experience with the grant proposal and reporting process is a plus.
• Communication & Leadership: Exceptional interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills with a knack for guiding, training, and holding remote volunteer teams accountable to meeting check-ins, goals, timelines, and report submission deadlines.
• Team Leader: Balanced leader capable of driving independent initiatives while fostering strong team collaboration. High energy and organizational skills are foundational to this role.
• Detail-Oriented & Self-Starting: Comfort managing highly cyclical timelines, establishing follow-up cadences, and maintaining rigorous organizational security (access controls).
• Adaptable & Flexible Schedule: Ability to maintain flexible working hours (including occasional standard off-hours) to coordinate effectively with university student volunteers across various time zones and academic schedules.
• Program Evaluation: Experience with program evaluation is a plus.
• The Passion: A genuine, lifestyle-aligned interest in children's health, nutrition education, chronic disease prevention, equity, climate change mitigation, and non-profit growth.
• Language: Spanish speaking proficiency is a plus, but not required.

Location and Travel

Kids In Nutrition is primarily a remote work environment headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. This role follows a remote schedule, but may require occasional domestic travel for events and key engagements.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Kids In Nutrition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, or disability.

How To Apply

We are looking for someone who loves what they do and is inspired by mission-focused work that supports community health, sustainability, youth education, wellness, food systems, and meaningful social change.

In your application, please include:

• Your resume and cover letter explaining why you're excited to work with Kids In Nutrition and your personal alignment with our mission. Please include your journey up to this point in your career.
• Your LinkedIn profile
• Three professional references and their contact information.
• Any other information you think we should know about you.

Pay: $60,000.00 - $65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Paid time off

Application Question(s):

• Please include 3 professional references and their contact information. (If there is limited room here, please attach it alongside your uploaded resume/coverletter).
• Please attach a cover letter explaining why you're excited to work with Kids In Nutrition and your personal alignment with our mission. Please include your journey up to this point in your career. (If there is limited room here, please attach it alongside your uploaded resume).
• Please include a link to your Linked In profile

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Program management: 3 years (Preferred)

Language:

• Spanish (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote