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Lead the organization that is changing how meat is made
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 GFIs teams focus on making plantbased fermentationenabled and cultivated meat delicious affordable and accessible. Powered by philanthropy GFI is part of an international network of organizations advancing alternative proteins as an essential solution to meet the worlds climate global health food security and biodiversity goals.
GFI works in the most critical economies and regions for alternative protein advancement with 115 team members in the U.S. and another 125 team members working across affiliates in Asia Pacific Brazil Europe India Israel and Japan. Within the United States we are a primarily remote workforce with a Policy and Government Relations office in Washington D.C. GFIs impact across seven global organizations is funded by donors from all walks of life: from people making monthly gifts to large grantmaking foundations. We are a toprecommended charity by evaluators such as Founders Pledge Giving Green and Charity Navigator. Some of our largest donors include individual philanthropists and foundations including Open Philanthropy and the Bezos Earth Fund.
How you will make a difference
You will lead all aspects of the Good Food Institute in the United States in close collaboration with the U.S. Leadership Team and in coordination and partnership with the President and Regional Leadership of GFI affiliates around the globe (APAC Brazil Europe India Israel and Japan). The Chief Executive Officer will be responsible for:
Strategic leadership & organizational oversight
- Overseeing the work of GFI in the U.S. including leading on organizational strategy and culture and setting the U.S. organizational budget.
- Hiring training directly supervising mentoring and coaching Leadership Team members (General Counsel Vice Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents).
- Collaborating with the U.S. Leadership Team the Regional Leadership Group and the President and Founder to build refine and execute GFIs strategic plan with a focus on achieving priorities and goals and managing the organizations capacity and resources.
- Ensuring the delivery of highquality missionaligned and impactful work while managing for current and future growth.
Global collaboration & affiliate engagement
- Partnering with the President and Founder and key leaders across GFIs global affiliates to identify and execute on opportunities for collaboration to maximize mission impact in alignment with the strategic plan.
- Ensuring delivery of mutually agreed commitments in line with signed affiliate agreements.
- Overseeing the global budget including advising independent affiliates on strategic considerations.
Culture & people
- Leading by example demonstrating the highest ethical standards ensuring the organization operates in compliance with all laws creating a vision of success and motivating and inspiring the team to stay nimble and focused in achieving GFIs mission and vision.
- Promoting a culture of high performance continuous improvement and strong employee engagement that values kindness and care equity trust accountability and collaboration in which all employees have an opportunity to be heard and feel like they belong.
- Fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation to ensure GFI remains at the forefront of advancing alternative proteins and systems change.
- Ensuring that robust systems for monitoring evaluation and learning are in place to track progress toward strategic priorities and impact goals.
Financial stewardship risk management & governance
- Setting financial priorities and ensuring that an appropriate system of policies internal controls and procedures is in place to support programmatic needs and employees.
- Working with the General Counsel VP of Operations and global leadership to assess and address sources of potential organizational risk.
- Reporting to the U.S. Board of Directors providing timely and transparent updates and supporting effective governance and decisionmaking.
External relations & mission advocacy
- Representing GFI with national media NGOs policymakers and other external stakeholders to advance the organizations mission and vision.
- Engaging donors to support GFIs mission impact as part of our development efforts.
- Supporting leadership in effectively deploying GFIs President and Founder for externalfacing engagements including fundraising communications and other strategic capacities.
Additional responsibilities: performing other duties as prioritized.
Who were looking for
An ideal candidate for the Chief Executive Officer position will have experience that reflects the following:
- Minimum 10 years of experience in leadership positions with at least 5 years in executive management; experience leading a nonprofit strongly preferred.
- Experience and comfort successfully running a complex organization and being accountable for annual and multiyear strategic development and .
- Experience overseeing a project or organization with multiple business operating units with annual revenue greater than $20 million.
- Demonstrated success in building and coaching teams and guiding developing and retaining leaders in a culture that values autonomy.
- Outcomesfocused mentality with a track record of delivering desired results.
- Crosscultural competency: an ability to understand and effectively communicate with global team members partners and stakeholders from different cultural backgrounds.
- An optimistic solutionoriented and collaborative spirit with a startup mentality flexibility resilience openmindedness and a sense of humor.
- A commitment to equity trust accountability and collaboration and to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels like they can be themselves and belong.
- Comfort working remotely and in a rapidly growing and evolving organization.
- Strong support for GFIs philosophy and mission; demonstrated interest in plantbased & other alternative proteins public health environmentalism climate change animal protection or hunger relief.
- A commitment to GFIs values: believe change is possible do the most good we can share knowledge freely act on evidence and invite everyone to the table.
We want the best people and we dont want biases holding us back. We use a thirdparty anonymizing tool to redact personal information from submitted applications including name location contact details and several other factors to reduce bias and increase fairness in our process. We strongly encourage people of every race color orientation age gender origin and ability to apply. Since we value a diverse workplace we prioritize an inclusive climate absent of discrimination and harassment during the application process and after you join the team.
Research indicates that men tend to apply for jobs when they meet just 60 of the criteria while women and people from other marginalized groups only apply if they are a 100 match. If you are passionate about GFIs mission and think you have what it takes to be successful in this role even if you dont check all the boxes please apply. Wed appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.
To learn more about GFI and this role we encourage you to review the CEO Job Brochure and our website.
The fine print
- Terms of employment: Fulltime exempt
- Reports to: Board of GFI
- Direct reports: Jessica Almy Senior VP of Policy and Government Relations; Chethana Biliyar VP of Operations; Caroline Bushnell Senior VP of Corporate Engagement; Sarah David General Counsel; Susan Halteman Senior VP of Development; Amanda Hildebrand VP of Science and Technology; Rachel Lichte VP of Impact; and Sheila Voss Senior VP of Communications.
- Location: Remote; United States Travel: 10 or more travel time expected for activities such as organizational retreats fundraising and external engagement; reasonable accommodations or exemptions from retreats will be considered on a casebycase 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; and respectful and collaborative culture. More information: is a 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 GFIs policy is not to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas.
- Salary: $238096.04$250000.92 (depending on experience and qualifications)
Important dates
Application deadline: May 28 2025
Anticipated start date: On or around July 14 2025
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: 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 instructions 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. Thank you for helping us to ensure that the redaction process works smoothly and to review your application as quickly as possible! Required Experience: Chief
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