Background to the role

The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe) is at the forefront of the movement to transform meat production in order to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger, to antibiotic resistance and animal suffering.

We work with scientists, businesses and policymakers to make plant-based and cultivated meat delicious, affordable and accessible. Please check out the rest of our website, our 2022 Year in Review and our 2022 Europe Highlights blog post to find out more about who we are and what we do.

We are at an exciting stage in our growth and are looking for an Italian-speaking International PR Manager to help drive GFI’s media relations work across Europe. For more information about this role, please take a look at the job brochure.

How you will make a difference

Reporting to the Senior Communications Manager, you will engage with media and influencers to advance plant-based and cultivated meat across Europe, and coordinate GFI Europe’s media relations work across the continent. 

As a member of our communications team, you will be responsible for driving a positive narrative for GFI Europe and sustainable proteins by:

• Developing and overseeing the delivery of international public relations campaigns for GFI Europe and the sustainable proteins sector across Europe.
• Commissioning, coordinating and overseeing the work of colleagues, agencies and freelancers to ensure they deliver high-quality work and secure positive media coverage in multiple European languages and countries.
• Developing key messages, press materials, and website and social media content in the languages you are able to work in.
• Building relationships with journalists and influencers across Europe in the fields of science, business, food, agriculture, and policy. 
• Working and building relationships with key organisations and companies across Europe to secure positive media coverage and strengthen support for sustainable proteins.
• Understanding and following the European conversation around sustainable proteins to identify new opportunities to advance the sector and GFI Europe’s work.
• Supporting GFI Europe spokespeople to prepare for interviews and events.
• Acting as a spokesperson for GFI Europe in Italian when necessary.
• Contributing media content to GFI Europe’s digital channels, including social media, website and email newsletters. 
• Monitoring, evaluating and optimising GFI Europe’s public relations work.
• Contributing to a forward plan of GFI Europe’s wider communications activities.
• (In future) Potentially line managing members of GFI Europe’s communications team.
• Performing other relevant duties as required. 

Who we’re looking for

You must have:

• A passion for our philosophy and mission.

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including the ability to speak and write persuasively in Italian.
• A passion for, and demonstrated success with, proactive media outreach, including effectively developing and pitching stories and interacting with the media to secure positive coverage. You may have previously worked in PR, journalism or another relevant field.
• The ability to think strategically in terms of audience, channels and messaging. 
• Good judgement and news sense: the ability to successfully spot opportunities and ‘hooks’ to secure coverage, and to get the substance, tone and nuance of our message right. 
• Excellent people skills: the ability to influence, network, build alliances and work well in a team.
• A can-do approach: a self-starter with the drive and initiative to take responsibility for delivering impact.  
• Comfort working remotely in a rapidly growing and evolving organisation: the ability to work well independently and under pressure, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and meet deadlines. 
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

It would be an advantage to be able to work in other European languages, but this is not a prerequisite, and we welcome applications from candidates without additional languages.

We want the best people and we don’t want biases holding us back. We strongly encourage people of every colour, orientation, age, gender, origin, and ability to apply. As we are a pan-European organisation, we welcome applications from people from nations, locations and cultures across the whole continent. Because we value a diverse workplace, we prioritise an inclusive climate absent of discrimination and harassment during the application process and after you join the team. 

Benefits and the fine print

Terms of employment: Full-time (flexible hours), permanent. Requests for part-time hours (0.8 FTE or above) can be considered. Please state this in your application.

Location: Flexible – we will consider applicants from anywhere in Europe. This is a remote role, and you will be able to work from home, or anywhere you choose. We are happy to consider supporting costs for co-working to enable you to work from an office if you wish. The whole GFI Europe team aims to get together in person approximately twice per year for around 3-4 days at a time. Travel costs will be covered by GFI Europe within our travel policy.

Salary: The salary and benefits package for all of our roles are researched and benchmarked based on similar nonprofit roles in the country/location of hire. Due to capacity, we cannot complete that research for every European country in advance, but approximate indicative ranges (total annual amounts received in gross salary plus benefits including home-working allowance) are likely to be:

• €36,000 to €42,000 if based in Italy.

We actively encourage people from all countries across Europe to apply for this role.

Right to work requirements: The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country where they are based.

Application Deadline: Sunday 23 July, 11.59pm CEST. We will get back to all candidates after that date, no matter the outcome of their application: you should expect to hear back from us within about a week of the deadline.

Application process

Please upload your sample work tasks through this short application form. The sample work tasks document can be found here.

We want you to have every opportunity to shine and show us your talents – we are happy to make all the reasonable adjustments that we possibly can to make sure the assessment process works for you. Email us at europe-hiring@gfi.org.

The full application process is outlined in the job brochure. We really look forward to hearing from you!

Any questions?

Watch the recording of our Q&A session, where Senior Communications Manager Sophie Armour and Senior People Operations Officer Catherine Derieux answered applicants’ questions about the role:

If you have any questions about this role, please do reach out to us at europe-hiring@gfi.org. If you’ve read this far but decided not to apply, please share this job description with someone else in your network who you think might be a good fit for the role! Thank you.