The Good Food Institute

Manager

• 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.

Investor Engagement Manager

Operations

• 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.

Investor Engagement Manager

Vice President of Operations