• 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.