If so, we’d like you to consider becoming a mentor-coach for the the New Agrarian Program Manager Fellowship. This new program seeks to support early career agrarians who are working to move beyond ranch hand positions into management or running their own enterprise.
Unlike the New Agrarian Program apprenticeship program, mentors in this program are not the employers of manager fellows. Fellows have secured their own positions on ranches, must be working in production agriculture, either running their own business or enterprise, in a ranch management position, or actively working toward entrepreneurship or ranch management.
Responsibilities
& Compensation
Mentoring in the NAP manager fellowship program is a coaching relationship with early-career agrarians committed to developing management and leadership skills pertinent to career advancement and/or entrepreneurial endeavors. It is not consulting or solving the mentees’ problems. As a mentor/coach, you’re offering insights, recommending resources, asking questions and not necessarily offering a solution. All this serves to inspire, inform, and challenge an aspiring manager/owner to build the knowledge and skills they need to succeed on their own terms.
Mentors choose whether they wish to offer guidance on specific topics or they can choose to coach in a more general manner. For example, you may be excited to help with a business plan or enterprise analysis, or how to negotiate win-win grazing lease agreements. Or you may be eager to dive into a number of different ideas your mentee has rather than confine your coaching to a specific area.
Mentors determine their availability regarding hours and schedule. Mentors are compensated for their time, including intake time, one virtual orientation meeting with New Agrarian Program staff and other mentors in the program, as well as contact with mentees. Mentors who attend the introductory meeting with fellows in early December and who commit to providing at least 4.5 hours of mentoring during the season will be provided with a $300 stipend up front. Additional hours of coaching will be paid at a rate of $70 per hour, up to $1,000 total per mentor for the season. Quivira will collect W9s from all mentors, and will issue 1099 forms to any mentors who are paid more than the amount allowable by the IRS, which is $2000.00 as of 2026.
Get Started
Application Form
You should get a confirmation email after you submit your application – if you do not get a confirmation email, please contact us.
Questions? Reach out to newagrarian@quiviracoalition.org.