Data & Impact ManagerD

Data & Impact Manager

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 (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). 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.

Position Summary:

The Data and Impact Manager plays a critical role in advancing Nourish Colorado's data strategy across the Local Food Program (LFP), a statewide initiative that provides funding to schools to purchase Colorado-grown, raised, and processed foods, and broader organizational initiatives. This position leads the development and implementation of data systems, evaluation frameworks, and reporting structures that support program learning, continuous improvement, and statewide impact.

This individual will be responsible for coordinating data and story collection, analysis, and reporting efforts to support evidence-based decision-making and continuous program improvement across multiple areas of work at the organization. This individual will focus on translating complex data and nuanced stories of community impact into clear, actionable insights for internal teams, external partners, funders, and policymakers.

Approximately 60% of this role is dedicated to the Local Food Program (LFP), supporting the program's transition from a pilot to statewide implementation through data infrastructure development, program evaluation, and analysis of K-12 food procurement and agricultural market development. The remaining 40% supports organization-wide data, evaluation, and story-telling, including assessing the collective impact of our entire strategic plan, including nutrition incentives, nutrition education, and policy advocacy efforts as well as school food.

The Data and Impact Manager will collaborate closely with program staff, Regional Coordinators, state agencies, and external partners to ensure data systems are aligned, accessible, and driving meaningful decision-making.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

Local Food Program (LFP) Data Systems Development & Market Intelligence (50%)

• Lead data strategy for LFP, including tracking supply, demand, and market connections across regions
• Support development and maintenance of tools such as the Wholesale Producer Database and regional market analyses
• Collaborate with participating school districts, agricultural partners and associations, food hubs, and external partners to collect and validate data
• Contribute to statewide data initiatives and working groups related to farm-to-institution efforts
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of data systems that support LFP and organizational priorities
• Establish and refine standardized data collection protocols across regions, partners, and programs
• Ensure data…