About the Role
As GFI’s Institutional Foodservice Fellow, you will have the opportunity to work with GFI to identify high-impact opportunities to bring alternative proteins into institutional foodservice (universities, hospitals, prisons, schools, etc.). The Institutional Foodservice Fellow will be responsible for the following:
- Researching, identifying, and contacting organizations that are already working to increase alternative proteins in institutional foodservice settings.
- Researching and identifying institutions currently procuring alternative proteins and learning the factors that led to the adoption of alternative proteins.
- Scheduling, leading, and reporting on meetings with organizations to better understand their scope of their work.
- Scheduling, leading, and reporting on meetings with institutional representatives to learn if/how alternative proteins can be incorporated into their foodservice settings.
- Analyzing the research and interviews and identifying barriers and opportunities for GFI to increase institutional procurement of alternative proteins.
- Providing an in-depth report with findings and recommendations based on the above interviews and research.
About the Organisation
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.