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Associate – Protein Transition (Maternity Cover)
Location: BRAZIL
Mighty Earth’s Protein Transition campaign is looking to contract an Associate Consultant on a 6-months flexible contract (40-hours/week) to support our global activities. It is a remote consultancy position that is expected to run from July 2025 to December 2025, with the potential to extend. Fees will be paid on monthly basis and up to a total value of R$ 77.000,00 for the entire contract (R$ 11.000,00).
JOB DESCRIPTION
As Mighty Earth’s Associate – Protein Transition, you will be a key part of our Global Protein Transition campaign, working to protect Latin America’s forests and supporting a transition to a more fair, inclusive and less damaging food system. Our campaign currently focuses on transforming the meat industry, the main driver of deforestation and significant contributor greenhouse gas emissions, to eliminate deforestation, adopt climate friendly policies and shift to sustainable plant-based protein. Through this work, you will defend critical ecosystems and habitats, help stop Indigenous and human rights abuses, and ensure these precious forests are protected, a critical factor in the fight against climate change.
Main responsibilities will include:
Administrative
- Managing, together with our Global Protein Transition Director, administrative processes such as reporting, meeting coordination and preparation and other functions, as needed.
- Overseeing and support the team with the contractor and vendor contracting process, including hiring, procurement, communication, and coordinating with the Finance Team on contracts and payments.
- Supporting our Global Protein Transition Director and the Global Protein Transition team in activities such as team planning, team building, recruitment and budgeting.
- Supporting our Global Protein Transition team in meeting coordination and preparation, organizing internal and external online and in-person meetings, events and webinars.
- Managing the Global Protein Transition Campaign team’s organizational files and workflow systems, including SharePoint, One Drive, Zoom and Slack, and tracking media and news stories.
- Creating and editing internal and external content about the Global Protein Transition campaign activities, including reports, briefings, blogs, and updates.
Campaigning
- Supporting our Global Protein Transition team in campaign planning, implementation and strategy discussions.
- Contributing to Mighty Earth investigations, including desk-based analyses of corporate social responsibility policies and supply chains for agricultural commodities.
- Assisting with the creation of, editing, and posting of internal and external campaign materials, which could include reports, activist briefings, petition texts, staff updates, grant report updates, and coalition communications.
- Working with Mighty Earth’s digital team to provide online content relating to our work, including audio-visual content, as well as scheduling social media content.
- Assisting with the outreach and ongoing relationship-building with allies, including key civil society partners, including organizing and participating in meetings, information sharing, and developing partnership agreements.
- Supporting outreach to Mighty Earth’s corporate and policymaker engagement targets.
PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS
- At least three years of professional work experience working in campaign, advocacy, or grassroots organizing environment, focused on social justice, environmental protection, human rights issues, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, or related issues.
- You have strong verbal and written communications skills in both Portuguese and English, Spanish is a plus.
- You are comfortable working as part of a small dynamic campaign-oriented team based in different parts of the world.
- You are highly organized and detail-oriented, with an ability to juggle multiple responsibilities across different projects.
- You have time-management skills and proven ability to meet deadlines.
- You have a passion for working for a better and more just world.
- You have experience with and a commitment to working with people from a variety of backgrounds, including different ethnic, racial and socio-economic backgrounds and the LGBTQ+ community.
- You can get up to speed quickly on new programs and technology as needed. We use Microsoft Office 365, Expensify, Harvest, Slack, among others.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Working location: Brazil (preferably) or other South America country.
Working mode: Mainly remote work. Eventually, the consultant can be requested to in-person meetings.
Working contract: An agreement (contract) regarding consulting services to be provided to Mighty Earth will be signed with the contractor, as an individual person or a legal entity.
Working payment: For the services provided by consultant during the term of the agreement, Mighty Earth will pay Consultant a non-reconcilable monthly fee. The contractor will invoice monthly based on the number of worked days after a validation from person to whom the consultant does report. Mighty Earth will make every attempt to remit payment for services in no more than thirty (30) days.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Submission documents: All proposals must contain the following documents:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Motivation letter in English (up to 500 words)
- Professional references (2 contacts)
Submission process: Required documents must be sent on pdf files to: [email protected]
Submission deadline: June 2, 2025
EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS
Selected proposals will be notified by email and will be called for an interview.
About Mighty Earth
Mighty Earth is a global advocacy organization working to defend a living planet. We are obsessed with impact: Our goal is to protect half of Earth for nature and secure a climate that allows life to flourish.
Through our proven “perfect storm” model of driving change, we have played a leading role in persuading the world’s largest food and agriculture companies to act against deforestation, land-grabbing and human rights abuse, and we’ve driven adoption of multi-billion-dollar shifts to clean energy.
Context
The meat industry is the largest single driver of destruction of rainforests and other ecosystems and causes more pollution than all the world’s cars, trucks, planes, and ships combined. Largely because of the meat industry, only 4% of mammal biomass on the planet are wild animals, a serious imbalance in the planet. The meat products that make their way onto the shelves of global supermarket chains are linked to large industrial meat and feed companies that have extensive records of deforestation, land grabs, habitat destruction, human rights violations and other irresponsible agricultural practices.
Large, multi-national retailers are uniquely positioned to play a large role in driving a shift in the way the world gets its protein because of their position in the global market, often seen as a leader in sustainable practices and a potential trailblazer for much-needed switch to plant-based and alternative protein-based foods. They are key customers for many of the world’s major meat and soy companies and could drive an urgent industry-wide shift of their suppliers to better practices, zero deforestation as well as more sustainable protein sources.
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This recruitment process is being managed by NGO Recruitment. More information and application here.