The Research department of Fairfood is currently recruiting a:

Project Assistant Solution Analysis [General]

• Unpaid position
• 16-32 hours a week
• Starting date: Immediately or to be discussed
• Good internship possibility

What is Fairfood?
Fairfood is an international non-profit campaign and lobby organisation, which prompts the food and beverage industry to make its production and trade more sustainable. In this way Fairfood contributes to the fight against hunger and poverty across the globe.

Research
The Research department is Fairfood’s centre of knowledge. The department collects and organizes up-to-date information and knowledge concerning global trade, food and beverage production. The central focus of the department is this research, which leads to Fairfood’s annual shopping guide with products which Fairfood advises consumers to ‘buy’ or ’Don’t buy’. The department is responsible for five projects: Fairness Criteria, Sector Analysis, Product Analysis, Assurance and Solution Analysis. The projects are led by six paid Project Leaders, each with the help of two to six unpaid Project Assistants.

The Project Solution Analysis
The Solution Analysis project involves researching viable sustainable agro-food related practices and initiatives from the field that can serve to be examples for advice to companies and politicians. The aim of this project is to contribute to the process of increasing the sustainability level of food and beverage products. This project is subdivided into two: Solution Analysis [General] and Solution Analysis [In-depth]. While the former focuses on Solutions identification, investigation and documentation across several agro-food sectors, the latter concentrates on in-depth study and documentation of solutions already identified for the specific agro-food sectors relevant for Fairfood's immediate campaign trajectories.

Primary responsibilities for the Project Assistant Solution Analysis [General]
Generally, Project Assistants on the Research Department carry out their primary responsibilities by means of desk research and conversations with specialists. As Project Assistant Solution Analysis [General] you will, amongst other responsibilities assigned by your Project Leader, be expected to:

• Obtain and update general information regarding various sustainable agro-food initiatives via credible research sources
• Study generally, the standards / guidelines / criteria of these initiatives and contact the developers for further basic details on them if necessary
• Determine on the basis of study, consultative findings and a pre-defined criteria, a class for each of the identified initiatives.
• Document the basic details of these initiatives in our data system.

At the moment Fairfood is especially looking for Project Assistants for Solution Analysis [General] to undertake these current projects:

• Organize 2008/09 Solution Analysis Strategy Forum
• Build the 2008/09 Fairfood Directory of Agro-food Voluntary Sustainability initiatives
• Ethics, Social Responsibility and Environmental Mapping of Voluntary Agro-food Sustainability initiatives

Competences

• Objective
• Independent
• Accurate
• Analytical
• Result oriented

Qualifications

• Minimal HBO (higher education) working- and thinking level
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English (Dutch is not required, but a plus)
• Able to work well both independently and within a team
• Able to work under supervision
• Affinity with Fairfood’s goals
• Knowledge of international trade and development, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the food and beverage industry is an asset

What do we offer?
A versatile position in an enthusiastic and fun team. We do not pay you any wages or allowances. However we offer you a free lunch and reimburse travel expenses.
For Fairfood, unpaid employees are equally important as paid employees. They receive the same employee accompaniment (e.g. progress meetings) and the same possibilities as paid employees.

Interested?
If interested, send a short motivation letter and your CV (in English) to one of our HR-employees at hr@fairfood.org. For more information about the function contact Anselm Iwundu, Project Leader Solution Analysis [General] by e-mail (anselm.iwundu@fairfood.org) or by phone: +31 (0)20-6188062.