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One of the key barriers to widespread adoption of climate-smart eating is the perception of it. All too often, people believe sustainable food culture is not for them: elitist, flavorless, expensive, or too difficult. We will not reach global climate goals in the short timeline given to us by scientists unless we make the sustainable food movement enticing, accessible, and culturally relevant to the majority of the world’s population. At FCL, we are working to accomplish this. In doing so, we aim to build an equitable, nutritious, and sustainable food system for all that respects people’s core needs, values, and cultural diversity.
Food for Climate League is looking for a Research Project Manager invested in driving sustainable food behaviors. The Research Project Manager will work under the Director of Research and Senior Project Manager and will be responsible for managing the execution of up to three research projects at once, as well as assisting with the research itself. This may include: contributing to the methodology development; supporting research analysis; supporting ideation sessions, interviews, collective visioning sessions, and focus groups; developing and testing of prototypes; and assistance coordinating with research vendors and partners.
Food for Climate League is a trailblazing, female-led 501(c)3 nonprofit working to make climate-smart eating the norm. Climate-smart eating is plant-forward, regenerative, and respectful of resources; it celebrates diversity, improves human nutrition, connects communities, is affordable and accessible to all, and preserves our shared planet. Honored on Fast Company’s 2022 list of World Changing Ideas, we collaboratively create toolkits, programs, and campaigns—founded in original behavioral science research—to help make climate-smart eating accessible, enticing, and culturally relevant to the masses. By connecting the dots between sustainable food culture and people's unique needs, values, and cultures, we can shift the perception of climate-smart eating and drive engagement.
At FCL, we utilize a research-driven, people-oriented framework focused on equity and cultural identities to facilitate a deep understanding of how people think and how they make decisions. By doing so, we create narratives and implementation strategies that position climate-smart foods as accessible, enticing, and culturally relevant to the masses.
Furthermore, we take into account the complexities of climate psychology, behavioral theory, and the intention-action gap.
To do this, we use…
- Human-Centered Design and Self-Determination Theory to assess people’s core needs
- Equity-Centered Community Design and Community-Centered Participatory Design to co-create and evaluate our interventions with the audience of focus
- Behavioral Design to assess where and how to intervene
- Narrative Strategies to re-frame the conversation and shift perceptions
- Food Trend Analyses to link our approach to existing cultural momentum
By connecting climate-smart food culture with people's core needs for control, community, and purpose, FCL supports organizations, businesses, and governments with the tools to effectively and efficiently catalyze supply and demand for food that’s better for us and the planet.
Roles and Responsibilities
Project Management
- Manage the GANTT, coordinate all deliverables and tasks in Asana
- Prioritize and manage multiple tasks with overlapping deadlines
- Report and escalate to management as needed
- Manage the relationship with the client and relevant stakeholders
- Develop and manage project scope, budgets, and timelines, and project status reports
- Keep the project team on track for upcoming milestones
- Manage regular team calls
- Lead weekly reporting to the team
- Lead monthly reporting via newsletter to client
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Use and continually develop leadership skills
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and partners
- When needed, manage workshops and trainings, sending invitations, arranging tech set up, coordinating with host organization(s), sending emails to attendees
Research
- Conduct literature reviews and landscape analyses
- Review and support interview guidelines and analysis
- Support survey question development and lead survey dissemination
- Lead focus group coordination, recruit participants, and report updates
- Lead interview coordination
- Support prototype development
- Lead final report coordination and assist with the development
- Provide input to dissemination plan
- Support research analysis
- Support final package development
Required Qualifications
- Completion of a Bachelor’s degree or higher at an accredited college or university;
- Proven project management experience;
- Familiarity with project management software and technologies (such as Asana);
- The ability to work independently to solve problems;
- Knowledge of (or willingness to educate oneself on) food systems issues, and the connection between food, agriculture, and the climate crisis;
- Passionate about engaging diverse (Black and POC) audiences in the climate-smart food movement;
- Maturity, ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a deadline-oriented environment;
- Outstanding attention to detail and organizational skills;
- Ability to work independently to manage one’s time and meet deadlines; and
- Commitment to working collaboratively with a small team of motivated individuals.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2-4 years of highly relevant, full-time work experience;
- Experience conducting primary research in one of the following areas: psychology, economics, sociology, or a related field;
- Experience presenting research findings to a lay audience;
- Experience recruiting subjects for online studies using a platform such as Mechanical Turk or Qualtrics;
- Experience using statistical software packages such as SPSS, Stata, etc;
- Experience using software packages for behavioral experiments, such as DirectRT, oTree, Inquisit, or Qualtrics;
- Ability to parse through data and translate findings;
- Strong understanding of food systems issues and interest in food systems change; and
- Excitement about building a sustainable, equitable, and healthy future for people and the planet.
- Knowledge of food systems issues, and the connection between food, agriculture, and the climate crisis;
- Strong interest in food systems change;
- Interest in climate psychology, human-centered design, and/or food choice architecture; and
- Excitement about building a sustainable and healthy future for people and the planet.
How to Apply
Please include a cover letter outlining why this position is of interest—and a good fit—at this point in your career, what prior experiences (personal or professional) qualify you for this work, and why you are personally interested in food and climate issues. Please also include a resume and upload this as a single document. Please provide details of two references and indicate whether we can contact them now.
Contact: Ting Ting Eeo, TingTing@foodforclimateleague.
- Compensation: $50-$60K depending on experience and qualifications
- Location: Virtual
- Hours: Approximately 40 hours a week
- Benefits:
- All federal holidays off
- PTO
- Sick days
- Parental leave
- Personal leave
- Floating holidays
- This position also offers:
- A chance to be at the table with visionary leaders and contribute to pioneering work to help catalyze a global cultural shift toward climate-beneficial eating as the norm.
- Mentorship from a world-class team of female food leaders in different countries, with different skill sets, and a combined track record of effecting widespread change toward healthier, more sustainable food for all.
- Opportunity to work with various research partners with expertise in human-centered design and behavior change.
- Access to the inside dialogue, challenges, innovations, and insights of some of the largest, most influential food companies in the world.
- Up-close experience with the process of growing an early-stage venture.
For more information and to apply please visit: LinkedIn