Farmers Market Manager

Farmers market management combines vendor-community building with operational logistics — recruiting and retaining farm and food vendors, managing market-day setup and breakdown, handling SNAP-EBT and other payment programs, managing market-day customer experience, coordinating with the municipality on permits and street use, and supporting the broader community-market mission. Vendor retention, market attendance, sales volume, and community engagement are the operating measures.

Variance is real: at municipal-operated markets the role works within city or county frameworks; at nonprofit-managed markets it integrates with broader food-systems work; at private-market operations it tilts toward commercial-market models. The community-and-mission dimension matters at most farmers-market operations — the work serves food-systems and local-economy goals alongside operational sustainability.

This role fits people who are community-oriented, comfortable with vendor and stakeholder relationships, and warm in the customer-facing dimension market operation involves. Farmers Market Coalition training, food-systems credentials, and nonprofit-management experience anchor advancement. The trade-off is the modest pay typical of farmers-market-management positions in nonprofit and municipal settings, balanced against the mission-and-community dimension that makes the work meaningful to many in the field.