The Good Food Institute

• Engagement with investors, corporate venture arms, and financial institutions: • Building and managing relationships with investors, corporate venture arms, and financial institutions, and growing GFI’s network of investor contacts. • Crafting and executing an annual strategy to position alternative protein solutions for capital mobilization to achieve scale-up, by informing stakeholders about financial and economic factors relevant to industry growth and opportunities. • Developing pathways for derisking investment in alternative proteins, including securing partnerships to explore novel capital solutions to support scale-up and commercialization and convening capital providers around specific bottlenecks. • Regularly securing and giving presentations to educate audiences on investment trends and capital mobilization challenges and opportunities in the alternative protein industry. • Collaborating across GFI and with external partners to analyze and expand the public investment landscape for alternative proteins. • Analysis & resource development: • Developing, disseminating, and presenting educational materials on R&D, commercialization, and infrastructure funding needs and opportunities for alternative proteins. • Shaping the narrative around investment trends in APs through analyzing and sharing market and investment data. • Making the case for alternative protein inclusion in thematic investment strategies, including AI themes, ESG strategies and sustainability goals, and other timely or long-term topics. • Contributing to sharing information and building open-access resources regarding public investment opportunities in alternative proteins, production capacity, infrastructure opportunities and challenges, and alternative protein scale-up needs (e.g., techno-economic assessments, risk and opportunity assessments, and infrastructure analyses). • Expanding and maintaining GFI’s publicly available library of investment-related educational resources and databases. • Representing GFI at industry events and in the media to educate potential investors and the public about alternative proteins and the investment landscape in the sector. • Supervision & leadership: • Supervising the Startup Innovation Lead, providing strategic direction, performance management, and professional development support, and overseeing GFI’s initiatives for engaging with startups, including developing a strategy for engaging with distressed companies. • Identifying opportunities and barriers to alternative protein investment that could be addressed through education and advocacy efforts, and developing and executing on related initiatives. • Securing an understanding of innovation ecosystem health, trends, and needs around financing APs, and sharing insights to and from startups and investors on the AP financing landscape. • Providing strategic insights to internal teams to inform corporate engagement, policy, and communications priorities related to investor engagement and capital mobilization. • Coordinating with affiliates to identify global financing opportunities and challenges and lead or support cross-regional initiatives. • Partnering with other NGOs or stakeholders to collaborate on joint initiatives on AP financing, investment, and capital mobilization. • Performing other duties as assigned.

• Overseeing the Collaborative Assistance Team (CAT); setting department strategy, vision, and culture; and hiring, training, supervising, mentoring, and developing team members, including directly managing the following positions: • Proactively identifying, assessing, and escalating operational risks to the CEO, General Counsel, and Leadership Team; designing and implementing proportionate systems and controls that support effective, compliant execution; and, leading cross-network operational coordination, including serving as a liaison to affiliates and facilitating the CAT Global Committee (GloCo). • Leading the organization's budgeting and financial planning processes by setting direction, ensuring alignment between strategy and resource allocation, and overseeing financial performance in partnership with the Finance team, which manages detailed budget development, reporting, and financial operations. • Fostering a high-performing, inclusive culture by ensuring equitable practices, strong management and professional development standards, and alignment across teams through effective internal communications, employee engagement, department and all-staff meetings and retreats, training, and feedback mechanisms, including responding to anonymous reporting hotline inquiries. • Maintaining and improving core operational infrastructure, including policies, internal controls, and both human and technical systems that support scalable, efficient, and compliant organizational growth. • Coordinating cross-functional risk mitigation strategies and processes, maintaining risk documentation, and ensuring business continuity planning across the U.S. entity and affiliate network. • Overseeing GFI’s operational insurance portfolio, including evaluating coverage needs, managing broker relationships, procuring and renewing policies, and ensuring alignment with organizational risk tolerance and legal requirements in partnership with the General Counsel. • Ensuring operational alignment across the network of organizations (planning, communication, shared practices) while affiliate teams retain responsibility for day-to-day operations. • Preparing Board-level materials in partnership with the CEO, General Counsel, and Finance, ensuring the Board has appropriate visibility into key operational, financial, and risk issues. • Serving as an active member of the GFI (U.S. team) Leadership Team, driving cross-functional and network-wide initiatives; representing operational and governance considerations in network decision-making; and, cultivating collaborative relationships with Leadership Team peers. • Performing other duties as assigned.

• Identifying public funding opportunities for alternative protein companies across U.S. state and federal governments. • Preparing resources and materials about public funding opportunities for industry stakeholders. • Conducting desk research and drafting memos on topics relevant to public funding and alternative proteins. • Developing and updating fact sheets and materials for policymaker engagement. • Identifying new stakeholders to strengthen GFI’s policy network.

**Only candidates based in the United States are eligible to apply** Support GFI’s work to unlock public investment for alternative protein companies The Good Food Institute (GFI) is a nonprofit think tank working to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals. Alongside scientists, businesses, and policymakers, GFI’s teams focus on making plant-based, fermentation-derived, and cultivated meat delicious, affordable, and accessible. Powered by philanthropy, GFI is an international network of organizations advancing alternative proteins as an essential solution needed to meet the world’s climate, global health, food security, and biodiversity goals. How you will make a difference As GFI’s Public Investment and Industry Fellow, you will work with the Policy and Government Relations team to identify, communicate, and influence public funding opportunities to support the alternative protein industry. The Public Investment and Industry Fellow will be responsible for the following: - Identifying public funding opportunities for alternative protein companies across U.S. state and federal governments. - Preparing resources and materials about public funding opportunities for industry stakeholders. - Conducting desk research and drafting memos on topics relevant to public funding and alternative proteins. - Developing and updating fact sheets and materials for policymaker engagement. - Identifying new stakeholders to strengthen GFI’s policy network. Who we’re looking for An ideal candidate for the Public Investment and Industry Fellow position will have experience that reflects the following: - Demonstrated prior experience or relevant coursework in the alternative protein industry, public policy, finance, or law. - At least 3 years of work experience in public policy or the alternative protein industry, or active candidacy in a related advanced degree program, is a plus. - Strong writing, organizational, research, and communication skills. - Strong support for GFI’s philosophy and mission; demonstrated interest in plant-based & other alternative proteins, public health, environmentalism, climate change, animal protection, or hunger relief. - A commitment to GFI’s values: believe change is possible, do the most good we can, share knowledge freely, act on evidence, and invite everyone to the table. GFI wants the best people and is committed to a fair hiring process. We use a third-party anonymizing tool to redact personal information from submitted applications — including name, location, contact details, and several other factors — to increase fairness in our process. We also prioritize an inclusive work environment absent of discrimination and harassment during the application process and after you join the team. People of every race, color, orientation, age, gender, origin, and ability are encouraged to apply. If you are passionate about GFI’s mission, think you have what it takes to be successful in this position, and meet many of the job requirements — even if you don’t check all the boxes — please apply. We’d appreciate the opportunity to consider your application. The fine print - Position Type: Temporary, part-time employee - Position Term: 10 hours a week for 24 weeks - Reports to: Maille O’Donnell, Policy Lead, Public Investment and Industry - Location: Remote - United States or hybrid - Washington, D.C. - Pay rate: $30/hour (up to 10 hours per week) to be paid biweekly Important Dates Application Deadline: April 13, 2026 Anticipated Start Date: June 1, 2026 Application Instructions GFI uses an anonymized hiring system that redacts key identifying personal information from all applications. We are testing this tool as part of an effort to reduce bias in our hiring process. Following these instructions will help to ensure your application is not delayed by a failed redaction. - Where possible, limit the creative formatting of your documents. If the name on your resume is an inserted image file or is styled with large spaces between each letter, for example, the redaction is likely to fail. Colors and designs are OK, but wherever possible, the text itself should just be regular text. - Please use consistent names. It helps to ensure that the name you use in your resume and cover letter is the same as the name you type into the application below. For example, if your name is Jennifer, please sign your cover letter as “Jennifer” rather than “Jenny.” - Submit PDF or .docx files only. Other file formats, like .txt, are likely to fail redaction. - Please do not include personal identifying information in your responses to the application questions. Referencing past education, work experience, and mission-alignment is OK. - Please do not contact the role’s supervisor or any potential member of the hiring team. If you have questions, please email careers@gfi.org. Thank you for helping us to ensure that the redaction process works smoothly and to review your application as quickly as possible!

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is a nonprofit think tank working to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals. Alongside scientists, businesses, and policymakers, GFI’s teams focus on making plant-based, fermentation-enabled, and cultivated meat delicious, affordable, and accessible. Powered by philanthropy, GFI is an international network of organizations advancing alternative proteins as an essential solution needed to meet the world’s climate, global health, food security, and biodiversity goals. In this position, you will have the opportunity to conduct technical landscaping for plant-based proteins and ingredients, identify key challenges facing crop development, raw materials, and ingredient supply chains, and articulate scalable solutions to accelerate the adoption of plant-based meat, eggs, and dairy. You will help ensure that scientific efforts and research funding are allocated toward the highest-impact research areas to accelerate the adoption of plant-based proteins and transform agriculture toward more sustainable systems. Working with key academic, nonprofit, and industry stakeholders, you will help plant-based alternative protein products achieve or exceed sensory and price parity with conventional protein products as quickly as possible. The Senior Scientist, Plant-based will be responsible for: Leading and writing technical analyses of the plant-based meat, egg, and dairy industries that culminate in white papers, conference presentations, and peer-reviewed articles. Forecasting future bottlenecks and obstacles that may inhibit the long-term growth of the plant-based meat, eggs, and dairy and proposing solutions to proactively alleviate these bottlenecks. Identifying the key areas requiring the most focused research and supporting the Science and Technology (SciTech) team in finding qualified researchers to perform that work. Launching and overseeing original research projects through contracted partners and collaborators, with a focus on agricultural outputs and economics. Supporting the SciTech funding team by engaging high-priority investors, foundations, government agencies, and others who can infuse significant capital into plant-based technology development. Informing strategic decisions through insights derived from deep industry tracking and analysis. Building GFI’s capacity to serve as a knowledge hub for the industry and as a connector and force multiplier. Performing other duties as assigned. An ideal candidate for the Senior Scientist, Plant-based position will have experience that reflects the following: A Ph.D. in a relevant scientific field or an M.S. in a relevant scientific field and at least 3 years. Exceptional writing skills for technical and general audiences. Adept public speaking skills. A proven track record of analyzing scientific literature and publishing literature reviews. Experience translating scientific information into formats for non-scientific professionals. A functional understanding of the principles, methods, equipment, and techniques used in plant-based meat, egg, and dairy research and manufacturing. Preferred: working exposure or formal training in crop development, plant-based ingredients and raw material processing and functionality, and supply chain management. A commitment to fostering a work environment that is respectful, supportive, fair, and welcoming to all. Comfort working remotely in a collaborative, caring, and high-performing culture that values inclusion and innovation. Strong support for GFI’s philosophy and mission; demonstrated interest in plant-based & other alternative proteins, public health, environmentalism, climate change, animal protection, or hunger relief. A commitment to GFI’s values: believe change is possible, do the most good we can, share knowledge freely, act on evidence, and invite everyone to the table. GFI wants the best people and is committed to a fair hiring process. We use a third-party anonymizing tool to redact personal information from submitted applications — including name, location, contact details, and several other factors — to increase fairness in our process. We also prioritize an inclusive work environment absent of discrimination and harassment during the application process and after you join the team. Please see our full Equal Opportunity Statement: https://gfi.org/careers/#EEOC-and-visa-disclaimer . If you are passionate about GFI’s mission, think you have what it takes to be successful in this position, and meet many of the job requirements — even if you don’t check all the boxes — please apply. We’d appreciate the opportunity to consider your application. Terms of employment: Full-time, exempt Reports to: Nikhita Mansukhani Kogar, Principal Scientist, Plant-based Location: Remote; United States Travel: Up to two weeks per year for organization retreats (reasonable accommodations for and exemptions from organization retreats considered on a case-by-case basis). Benefits: Working from home; paid employee base medical coverage; dental, vision, and other medical insurance options; a 401(k) plan with employer match; 14 paid holidays; personal, sick, and vacation time; paid family/parental and medical leave; lifestyle spending account; opportunity for advancement; and, respectful and collaborative culture. More information here: https://tinyurl.com/GFIBenefits . This is a U.S.-based position: In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work for any employer in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. At this time, GFI's policy is not to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas. Salary: $112,574.02 - $118,202.76 (depending on experience and qualifications) Application deadline: March 26, 2026 Anticipated start date: On or around April 27, 2026 Decided not to apply? If after reviewing this job description, you have decided not to apply, please let us know why by completing this short survey: https://tinyurl.com/GFIJobSurvey Interested in working at the Good Food Institute? Join us for the Career Opportunities Webinar to learn more about our work and ask questions about specific job opportunities! See upcoming webinar dates and more information at https://tinyurl.com/GFICareers GFI uses an anonymized hiring system that redacts key identifying personal information from all applications. We use this tool as part of a wider effort to reduce bias in our hiring process. Following these instructions will help to ensure your application is not delayed by a failed redaction. Where possible, limit the creative formatting of your documents. If the name on your resume is an inserted image file or is styled with large spaces between each letter, for example, the redaction is likely to fail. Colors and designs are OK, but wherever possible, the text itself should just be regular text. Please use consistent names. It helps to ensure that the name you use in your resume and cover letter is the same as the name you type into the application below. For example, if your name is Jennifer, please sign your cover letter as “Jennifer” rather than “Jenny.” Submit PDF or .docx files only. Other file formats, like .txt, are likely to fail redaction. Please do not include personal identifying information in your responses to the application questions. Referencing past education, work experience, and mission-alignment is OK. If you use smart technology, use it wisely. We want to get to know you — not a robot. Please ensure your application materials reflect your own voice and experience. Please do not contact the role’s supervisor or any potential member of the hiring team. If you have questions, please email careers@gfi.org . Thank you for helping us to ensure that the redaction process works smoothly and to review your application as quickly as possible!

• Provide broad in-house legal counsel across the organization to enable programmatic and operational effectiveness • Serve as a legal advisor to GFI employees on a broad range of legal matters • Triage, prioritize, and independently resolve routine legal requests • Maintain the continuity and integrity of legal operations in response to evolving organizational needs or capacity shifts • Provide legal counsel across a wide range of issues, including contract negotiation and review, nonprofit law, risk management, intellectual property, and compliance • Maintain a deep understanding of GFI’s programs to assess and communicate legal risk • Serve as a strategic partner to the General Counsel • Exercise strong judgment regarding attorney-client privilege, confidentiality, and sensitivity • Identify recurring legal issues, operational friction points, and compliance risks • Oversee the full contract lifecycle for GFI’s U.S.-based teams • Draft, review, and revise policies, legal memoranda, and formal correspondence • Develop and deliver employee trainings on compliance topics

• Supporting and coordinating key projects to advance thought leadership priorities for the organization. • Collaborating with internal and external partners to plan virtual and in-person convenings and presentations on alternative proteins. • Reviewing and synthesizing important external reports, articles, and studies to support internal GFI decision-making, strategy, and communications. • Orchestrating and/or participating in stakeholder meetings with or at the direction of the President. • Acting as a thought partner and analytical resource to the President. • Consulting with internal experts to ensure the accuracy of information and messaging. • Performing any other duties as assigned.

• Engagement with investors, corporate venture arms, and financial institutions: Building and managing relationships with investors, corporate venture arms, and financial institutions, and growing GFI’s network of investor contacts. • Crafting and executing an annual strategy to position alternative protein solutions for capital mobilization to achieve scale-up, by informing stakeholders about financial and economic factors relevant to industry growth and opportunities. • Developing pathways for derisking investment in alternative proteins, including securing partnerships to explore novel capital solutions to support scale-up and commercialization and convening capital providers around specific bottlenecks. • Regularly securing and giving presentations to educate audiences on investment trends and capital mobilization challenges and opportunities in the alternative protein industry. • Collaborating across GFI and with external partners to analyze and expand the public investment landscape for alternative proteins. • Analysis & resource development: Developing, disseminating, and presenting educational materials on R&D, commercialization, and infrastructure funding needs and opportunities for alternative proteins. • Shaping the narrative around investment trends in APs through analyzing and sharing market and investment data. • Making the case for alternative protein inclusion in thematic investment strategies, including AI themes, ESG strategies and sustainability goals, and other timely or long-term topics. • Contributing to sharing information and building open-access resources regarding public investment opportunities in alternative proteins, production capacity, infrastructure opportunities and challenges, and alternative protein scale-up needs (e.g., techno-economic assessments, risk and opportunity assessments, and infrastructure analyses). • Expanding and maintaining GFI’s publicly available library of investment-related educational resources and databases. • Representing GFI at industry events and in the media to educate potential investors and the public about alternative proteins and the investment landscape in the sector. • Supervision & leadership: Supervising the Startup Innovation Lead, providing strategic direction, performance management, and professional development support, and overseeing GFI’s initiatives for engaging with startups, including developing a strategy for engaging with distressed companies. • Identifying opportunities and barriers to alternative protein investment that could be addressed through education and advocacy efforts, and developing and executing on related initiatives. • Securing an understanding of innovation ecosystem health, trends, and needs around financing APs, and sharing insights to and from startups and investors on the AP financing landscape. • Providing strategic insights to internal teams to inform corporate engagement, policy, and communications priorities related to capital mobilization. • Coordinating with affiliates to identify global financing opportunities and challenges and lead or support cross-regional initiatives. • Partnering with other NGOs or stakeholders to collaborate on joint initiatives on AP financing and capital mobilization. • Performing other duties as assigned.