[Hiring] Scientific Community-Building Fellow @The Good Food Institute

Role Description

Advancing the science of plant-based meat depends on drawing in the right expertise, yet many of the disciplines best equipped to solve its hardest technical problems are not yet well represented in the field. In this fellowship, you will reach out to professionals in the physical sciences, engineering, and others outside of food science whose expertise is essential to solving the field's hardest technical barriers.

The Scientific Community-Building Fellow will be responsible for:

• Creating an outreach strategy:
  • Working closely with the Senior Scientific Partnerships Manager to create an outreach strategy for engaging critical and underrepresented disciplines in plant-based meat research.
  • Understanding the core scientific and technical concepts of plant-based meat research and translating them into the language of other disciplines.
• Mapping key disciplines, individuals, and forums:
  • Creating a database of people, disciplines, and societies.
  • Identifying opportunities for GFI to have a presence at scientific forums where these stakeholders gather.
• Building outreach materials:
  • Developing the groundwork for relationship-building with individuals and academic departments.
  • Identifying target universities and department heads.
  • Assembling briefing materials, talking points, and persuasive, audience-tailored toolkit.
  • Assessing opportunities to improve upon GFI’s existing outreach materials and tools, and implementing those recommendations.
• Supporting outreach and engagement:
  • Coordinating outreach to priority stakeholders.
  • Scheduling and facilitating meetings or symposia.
  • Designing and conducting interviews and/or surveys.
  • Piloting a small number of outreach contacts drawn from target lists and folding learnings back into the strategy and toolkit.
• Synthesizing and presenting findings:
  • Creating a final report and presenting a summary of findings to GFI’s Science and Technology team at the end of the fellowship tenure.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Fluency in the culture of the physical sciences and/or engineering disciplines, as demonstrated by a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in the discipline or at least 3 years of academic research.
• Preference for candidates pursuing a Master of Science (MSc) or higher degree in a relevant discipline for plant-based meat research.
• Ability to effectively translate technical concepts across academic disciplines.
• Ability to professionally communicate verbally and in writing with students, researchers, and other innovators.
• Preference for those with experience planning scientific and academic research events, community-building, or society/committee work.
• Strong skills in analyzing and interpreting literature and disparate data sources.
• Ability to perform independent, self-paced work.
• A commitment to fostering a respectful, supportive, fair, and welcoming work environment.
• Comfort working remotely in a collaborative, caring, and high-performing culture.
• 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.

Requirements

• Temporary, part-time employee.
• 15 hours of work a week for 16 weeks.
• Reports to: Bianca Datta, Senior Scientific Partnerships Manager.
• Location: Remote, United States.
• Pay rate: $7200, paid pro-rata biweekly over the length of the assignment ($30/hour for 16 weeks).

Benefits

• GFI is committed to a fair hiring process.
• Inclusive work environment absent of discrimination and harassment.

Important Dates

• Application deadline: Tuesday, August 25.
• Anticipated start date: Monday, October 5.

Application Instructions

• GFI uses an anonymized hiring system that redacts key identifying personal information from all applications.
• Limit the creative formatting of your documents.
• Submit PDF or .docx files only.
• Do not include personal identifying information in your responses to the application questions.
• If you have questions, please email [email protected].