Overview of Ambition Loop
Ambition Loop is a global NGO based in Chile on a mission to lead and inspire coordinated, transformative action on a small number of major challenges across climate change, biodiversity, land use change, plastics pollution, food systems, and water. Founded by several international thought leaders, including Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Muñoz – both UN Climate Change High-Level Champions – Ambition Loop gets its name from the concept of a positive feedback cycle in which governments, civil societies, and private sector leaders collaborate, reinforce, and amplify efforts to take sustainable action to the next level. We are driven by a profound sense of responsibility towards the planet and its inhabitants. We believe in the power of bold collective goals, and in the need for generosity among partners to foster radical collaboration. Ambition Loop is a movement-generous collaborator, and works closely with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions (HLCs) and other partners to deliver shared objectives.
Overview of Ambition Loop’s Food Systems Loop
Mandated by the COP28 and COP30 Presidencies and working closely with UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP29 and COP30, Ambition Loop takes a people-centred and inclusive approach to food systems and agriculture, working across agricultural production, consumption, food loss & waste, and nature conservation & restoration. Ambition Loop works with a diverse and broad range of partners to amplify a positive, hopeful vision of ‘what good looks like’, through real-world stories and impact examples. Ambition Loop elevates regional, national and local priorities into international, multi-lateral policy fora to create space for frontline voices, people-centred solutions and high-profile moments on the international stage and in the media to build and maintain momentum on food systems & agriculture.
Overview of the Role
The Food Systems & Agriculture Associate is a key role within Ambition Loop’s Food Systems & Agriculture Team. The role reports to the Director of the Food Systems & Agriculture team. They will work closely with the Senior Advisor, and Food Systems & Agriculture Manager, and in collaboration with other Ambition Loop teams and the Climate Champions Team.
Key responsibilities include:
- Support the program management of projects in the Food Systems portfolio, ensuring project deliverables are delivered at a high quality and on time, identifying and escalating delivery risks to the Food Systems Director, and supporting on managing engagement with funders and external partners.
- Develop project workplans (in coordination with other team members), track delivery and provide guidance to project team members on relative prioritization, nurturing a collaborative and supportive team dynamic that can deliver on objectives within a fast-paced and evolving context.
- Develop and manage a wide and diverse network of external key stakeholders across the food systems ecosystem in ways which help build trust, understand their priorities and perspectives and identify opportunities for meaningful engagement in relevant initiatives, campaigns and projects.
- Support coordination of diverse stakeholders across the food systems community and more broadly, including through webinars, on-line and in person meetings, briefings etc.), identifying opportunities for multi-stakeholder collaboration, co-creation and development of shared narratives across food-nature-climate.
- Support on developing briefing materials and speaking notes for Ambition Loop, and other ambassadors, on an ad hoc basis.
- Support on collating up-to-date information and evidence and compiling analysis and insight documents to support the Food Systems team on the latest science and trends in the sector to support strategy development and identifying opportunities.
- Support external communications, including preparation of briefing materials for high-level speakers, media briefings, event concept notes and other communications materials.
- Coordinate several high impact events on food systems at key milestone events, including UNGA, COP30 etc., together with a designated team.
- Identify and leverage opportunities to build convergence across thematic agendas (food systems, nature, ocean, finance etc.) and promote convergence and alignment with the Action agendas of the other Rio Conventions.
About you
The successful candidate will be proactive, highly motivated, have strong written and oral communication skills, is collaborative, and has excellent project management skills. You are comfortable working in international environments and with diverse teams in a fast-paced environment. You are comfortable juggling different priorities and balancing multiple and competing demands and work in ways which are highly collaborative and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels.
Qualifications & Experience
To excel in the role of Food Systems & Agriculture Associate, you likely meet or exceed the following:
- 2-4 years or more of prior experience working in food systems or related positions in the environmental, nonprofit, government sector or related field
- Exceptional project management and organisational skills, including designing and implementing project tracking systems.
- Subject matter expertise on food systems, especially related to food-water-nature nexus and links to land use and restoration agendas
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to strategically and continuously prioritise
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills, and attention to detail
- Highly motivated and resourceful self-starter
- Ability to manage a team with openness and patience through ambiguity and change
- Excellent process and project management skills, with ability to juggle multiple priorities and deadlines
- Collaborative and collegial working style, and a strong team player, with strong interpersonal skills and diplomacy
- Excellent communications skills, including to support the development of comms products (social media posts, op-eds, articles etc.) in verbal and written in English – additional languages a plus
- Fluent in English and other languages, particularly Spanish, Portuguese, French, would be beneficial.
- We are seeking to hire candidates based in Chile or Brazil.
To Apply
Please send an email with your Cover Letter and CV/resume attached (both in PDF format), explaining how you meet the requirements of the position. Applications should be sent to recruitment@ambitionloop.earth by July 4th 2025 .
Please use the following subject line in your email:
Food Systems & Agriculture Associate - [Your Full Name]
In the body of the email, please briefly include:
- Your current location and whether you have the right to work in that country.
- Your availability to start; if not immediately, please specify your earliest possible start date
