Capital Mobilization 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 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.

This role accelerates capital flows to alternative proteins through analysis, education, and strategic engagement, helping transform the global food system to be better for the planet, people, and animals by making plant-based, fermentation-enabled, and cultivated meat more accessible and affordable.

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in investment, finance, or investor engagement, including experience in nonprofit, public interest, or mission-driven contexts.
• A bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business administration, or accounting from an accredited college or university is preferred (MBA or equivalent experience is a plus). Degrees in related fields with significant coursework in economics, finance, quantitative analysis, or business strategy will also be considered.
• A demonstrated strong work ethic, a high degree of self-motivation, and intellectual curiosity.
• Strong analytical, writing, and presentation skills.
• Persuasive and engaging interpersonal skills; the ability to build effective working relationships with senior executives and investors.
• A thorough understanding of the investment industry, including venture capital, capital formation, and fundraising dynamics for startups.
• Ability to work independently and use sound judgment in decision-making, including setting and managing priorities and meeting competing deadlines.
• The strongest candidates for this position would also have experience in the following areas: Experience working as an investment analyst, investment associate, venture associate, or similar position within the broader investment industry. Familiarity with the alternative protein industry (plant-based meat, eggs, and dairy; cultivated meat; and fermentation). Experience successfully managing large cross-functional projects. Demonstrated experience managing and developing employees or project teams.
• A commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels like they belong.
• Comfort working remotely and in a rapidly growing and evolving organization.
• Strong support for GFI's philosophy and mission; demonstrated interest in plant-based & other alt 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.

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.

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is a nonprofit think tank working to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals by advancing alternative proteins as an essential solution needed to meet the world's climate, global health, food security, and biodiversity goals.