Employment Opportunities

Learn about our open positions - we are excited to hear from you!

New Entry envisions a society grounded in the principles of social and economic justice. As such, we strive to achieve excellence through a diverse and inclusive workplace that honors the unique talents and lived experiences of each person. Our vision and values are reflected in all our employment-related decisions, including hiring practices. Accordingly, New Entry actively seeks people who bring diverse backgrounds and perspectives to join us in our work.

For expression of interest in joining New Entry, please Email your resume and a brief letter of inquiry, including a summary of your experience, to the point of contact provided in the job description. All potential candidates are required to complete a Tufts University hiring process.

Current Open Positions (see links to descriptions below)

  • Associate Director - strategic leadership position
  • National Program Manager - leadership position
  • Commonwealth Corps Members - a service learning opportunity supporting community outreach and food access initiatives

Associate Director:  New Entry is seeking an Associate Director who is passionate about our mission. This position offers an exciting opportunity to help shape and carry out the strategic agenda of a nationally respected, comprehensive farmer training and food systems organization. The Associate Director will work with New Entry staff, consultants and regional and national partners to provide strategic leadership and management for New Entry’s farmer training programs. Reporting to the Executive Director (ED), the Associate Director will have both internal and external facing responsibilities at New Entry and handle the below duties:

  • Program management (program development, framing of strategic approaches, high-quality customer service, project metrics tracking and evaluation)
  • Administration (grant writing and reporting, month end financial review, fundraising, information technology, facilities management)
  • Human Resource functions and recruiting
  • Mentoring and leadership development among staff and interns
  • Partner closely with the ED to chart New Entry’s future growth and implement strategic goals to grow and scale New Entry’s program impact in the farm and food systems space.

Basic Requirements:

  • 10 years in a management position in a nonprofit organization, foundation, university, or government agency
  • Knowledgeable and experienced in agriculture and food systems work
  • Committed to racial equity and food justice work
  • Highly entrepreneurial and systems-thinker; self-starter, self-disciplined
  • Demonstrated grant writing and grants management experience including federal grants and private foundation grants
  • Demonstrated experience in program evaluation and in developing, implementing, and evaluating complex programs
  • Demonstrated financial management experience in managing nonprofit budgets and performance reporting
  • Experienced supervisor, mentor and ability to bring out the best in others; ability to motivate a team and manage large groups of volunteers
  • Outstanding communication (written, verbal), interpersonal skills, and ability to show empathy
  • Public speaking skills
  • Demonstrated success in roles requiring execution of multiple tasks while responding to multiple competing priorities and deadlines
  • Remains focused in the face of pressure, delivers against timelines, not intimidated by tasks/time/financial limitations
  • Proven ability to work with efficiency, flexibility, and good humor
  • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain positive relationships with a wide array of people
  • Operates with excellence in mind in all matters, with the confidence to defend/debate ideas and make changes to processes and operations without ego interfering and can be transparent and direct.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Graduate degree
  • Hands-on commercial farming or food distribution experience
  • Experience managing land-based farmer training and educational programming via farm site management, safe farm equipment use and maintenance, and farmland/soil stewardship
  • Experience in adult education and teaching to diverse learning styles
  • Community organizing and cross-cultural experience is helpful; comfort and skill in building relationships with beginning, immigrant, and refugee farmer participants
  • Ability to speak Spanish or different language(s)
  • Experience accessing and/or working with local, state and national service provider networks
  • Competent in Salesforce (CRM), Excel, and other management and computer software
  • Willingness and ability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends
  • Willingness to travel regionally and nationally to attend conferences and partner meetings

Compensation and Timeline:  The Tufts University salary range for this position is:  Minimum $70,000.00, Midpoint $87,550.00, Maximum $105,100.00.  Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect an offer of pay between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range; New Entry's program budget for this position is $70,000 - $80,000 per year plus generous Tufts University benefits.  The position is open until a suitable candidate is identified; an ideal start date would be no later than June 1, 2024.

Special Work Schedule Requirements: Periods of intense farming and food hub warehouse activities are June through October where programmatic needs could require long hours, and assistance with completion of farm site responsibilities, food hub packing and loading of produce into boxes for on-time delivery to customers could occur.  Work happens between office spaces and on a farm in all weather conditions, or in a barn/warehouse with limited heating/cooling, so it can be extremely hot or extremely cold in certain settings depending on the weather.  If a delivery driver is absent, or staff/volunteers are absent, the position may be expected to drive vehicles, complete packing duties, and make on-time deliveries to customers. Expected travel to meetings throughout the state, region, and nationally.

To Apply, submit a resume and cover letter outlining your skills and qualifications in connection to the job description and mission areas of New Entry.  Applications are accepted online through the Tufts University Human Resources application portal.  Apply HERE.

National Program Manager - full-time, year-round
The National Program Manager provides management and oversight for New Entry’s beginning famer land-based training networks and leads robust program evaluation strategies locally and nationally.  Responsibilities include oversight of the FIELD Network, a national technical assistance (TA) and capacity building networks for land-based experiential beginning farmer training programs (incubator and apprenticeship training programs).  This position will lead national program strategy and development; conduct outreach to national organizations, particularly in underserved communities; manage and build partner relationships; support technical assistance for partner organizations and connect them to our network partners for information sharing and program development resources; develop educational resources, toolkits, guidebooks, and webinars to support successful programs; lead program evaluation, data collection, monitoring, and project reporting, and; organize and manage annual conferences and convenings of national partners. This position requires strong strategic planning, project management, leadership, evaluation, and networking skills.

Key Duties will include:
Manage the National FIELD Network (incubator and apprenticeship training programs)

  • Oversee strategic planning and national strategy for incubator farm and apprenticeship training programs and support fund development to support and sustain FIELD network functions;
  • Conduct national planning, outreach, and technical assistance to emerging or developing beginning farmer training and incubator farm and apprenticeship programs through recruiting clients and engaging national partners in TA and national and regional Community of Practice (CoP) efforts;
  • Expand the FIELD network to include a diversity of members and program types: urban/rural, large/small scale ag, enterprise interests, geographically diverse, and culturally/racially diverse programs;
  • Research and produce a variety of documents, reports, proposals, webinars, other literature across multiple project partners/authors;
  • Develop Technical Assistance (TA) protocols in areas of financial literacy, land and credit access, and metrics and evaluation for farm incubator and apprenticeship training projects;
  • Oversee and maintain national FIELD Network TA request and referral system;
  • Plan, coordinate and host educational events (webinars, national conferences, meetings) of interest to incubator farm and apprenticeship programs and associated topics;
  • Refine and expand upon web-based national clearinghouse for farm incubator and apprenticeship program resources;
  • Develop case studies, success stories, and best practices of land-based training programs;
  • Organize multi-day national FIELD Schools (conferences) and CoP national meetings/conferences;
  • Collaborate on development of national metrics and evaluation of farm incubator and apprenticeship training projects;
  • Collaborate on national-level research on incubator and apprenticeship projects;
  • Promote and distribute existing land-based training toolkits, fact sheets, and other materials;
  • Collaborate with national partners on local and regional-level projects to encourage and strengthen farm incubators and apprenticeship training programs by partnering and serving in an advisory capacity as requested;
  • Manage project reporting and evaluation metrics to funders.

Oversee National Programs

  • Provide strategic vision, direction, and strategy for national team;
  • Manage New Entry’s National Programs Team, including staff, interns, TA partners, consultants, and subawards; manage partner relationships for national programs; create and manage consulting agreements and contracts with program partners;
  • Develop and maintain operations manuals for all aspects of National TA program administration;
  • Manage grant budgets, grant reporting, and liaise with USDA and partner agency staff;
  • Participate in regularly scheduled staff and leadership meetings and lead national team meetings;
  • Facilitate connections between national and local programs at New Entry by working with New Entry staff to develop robust program metrics and evaluation tools to share nationally and to educate New Entry staff members about best practices gleaned from national organizations;
  • Promote New Entry’s work on a national scale by attending and presenting at relevant conferences and events;
  • Participate in other programmatic deliverables as requested.

Basic Requirements:
• Skills and knowledge in multiple aspects of beginning farmer training programs, community organizing, food security, and/or gained through experience working with diverse ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic groups;
• Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s degree preferred or suitable equivalent work experience;
• Significant work experience in the non-profit sector (at least 5-8 years) with national outreach, and educational resource and fund development; Minimum of 2 years supervisory experience required;
• Experience networking with multiple organizations and collaborative networks; demonstrated leadership and communication skills in networking/relationship building across disparate partners and interests;
• Significant experience in program evaluation, designing surveys, and leading multi-stakeholder assessments required;
• Ability to analyze data, capture trends, insights, and needs of partners and develop clear, actionable vision and related programming to respond to needs and synthesize ideas / present vision for future to network leadership;
• Experience with event planning, conference organization, and multi-stakeholder gatherings;
• Ability to lead projects independently; ability to coordinate innovative programming with multiple partners;
• Experience working with social media, web-based/online learning, and web resource development required;
• Strong commitment to racial equity and social justice;
• Strong organizational skills and acute attention to detail;
• Self- directed; works well within a rapidly-changing, high-performance environment;
• Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills;  Ability to write well and develop compelling impact reports;
• Proficiency with standard computer software (MS Office, Social Media, website content development, graphic design, Excel database).  Experience with Salesforce CRM desired.

Additional Preferred Experience:
• Demonstrated research capacity – ability to explore new areas of learning and to back up ideas with data and metrics;
• Enthusiasm for critically engaging with the local food movement and determining how non-profit programming can better address food insecurity, food access and improve nutritional outcomes
• Organizational development and cross-cultural experience;
• Experience with adult education theory and training strategies preferred;
• Empathy for and sensitivity to food insecurity in underprivileged communities preferred;
• Multilingual a plus.

Compensation and Timeline:  The Tufts University salary range for this position is:  Minimum $70,000.00, Midpoint $87,550.00, Maximum $105,100.00.  Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect an offer of pay between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range; New Entry's grant program budget for this position is $70,000 per year plus generous Tufts University benefits.  The position is open until a suitable candidate is identified; an ideal start date would be no later than June 1, 2024.

Special Work Schedule Requirements: Work happens at office spaces on a farm and on a working farm in all weather conditions, or in a barn/warehouse with limited heating/cooling, so it can be extremely hot or extremely cold in certain settings depending on the weather.  All staff are expected to support on-farm events and pitch in to support farm and food hub activities, so occasional field duties and food hub share packing may be required which can involve bending, lifting, and driving vehicles.  This position has expected work-related travel to meetings throughout the state, region, and nationally.

To Apply, submit a resume and cover letter outlining your skills and qualifications in connection to the job description and mission areas of New Entry.  Applications are accepted online through the Tufts University Human Resources application portal.  Apply HERE.

To Apply for all New Entry open positions, please send a brief letter of inquiry and a summary of your experience to meet the qualifications or a resume and email to nesfp@tufts.edu or the name listed in the position description. Candidates will be required to complete the Tufts University hiring or procurement/contracting process.

New Entry values diversity and unique lived experience and does not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin or ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, genetic information, veteran or disability status or any other factor prohibited by law.

Also, please visit our volunteer opportunities or available internship pages for more information on other ways to get involved in our work!

New Entry/Tufts University does not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin or ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, genetic information, veteran or disability status or any other factor prohibited by law.