ATNi Seeks Environmental Impact Assessment Consultant for Global Food Systems Project: Apply by 10 July 2026

The Access to Nutrition initiative (ATNi) is inviting applications from experienced sustainability and data professionals for the position of Environmental Impact Assessment Consultant. This fully remote consultancy offers a unique opportunity to contribute to an innovative global project examining the environmental and health impacts of food and beverage manufacturers’ product portfolios.

The consultancy will run from September 2026 through January 2027 and will support a pioneering assessment that forms part of ATNi’s upcoming Global Index, helping to advance evidence-based action toward healthier and more sustainable food systems worldwide.

About ATNi

The Access to Nutrition initiative (ATNi) is an independent global nonprofit organization dedicated to creating healthier food environments. Through research, benchmarking, and data-driven analysis, ATNi works to hold the food industry accountable while equipping policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders with the insights needed to transform food systems.

ATNi’s work focuses on ensuring that people everywhere have access to nutritious and sustainable food choices. By evaluating food and beverage companies and publishing independent assessments, the organization helps drive improvements across the global food sector.

About the Consultancy

Food systems are increasingly recognized as major contributors to both public health challenges and environmental degradation. Rising rates of diet-related diseases, alongside issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and water stress, have highlighted the need for integrated approaches that consider both human and planetary health.

To address this challenge, ATNi is piloting a new assessment that evaluates the environmental performance of food and beverage manufacturers alongside the nutritional quality of their product portfolios.

The selected consultant will lead the environmental component of this assessment, applying an environmental impact model to analyze products across multiple sustainability indicators and generate actionable insights for stakeholders.

The assessment will focus on 10–15 leading food and beverage manufacturers operating in Indonesia and the United Kingdom and will contribute to ATNi’s 2027 Global Index.

Key Responsibilities

The consultant will be responsible for managing the environmental assessment process from start to finish, including data preparation, analysis, interpretation, and reporting.

Key duties include:

Model Review and Feasibility Assessment

• Review the selected environmental impact assessment model and associated datasets.
• Identify and source additional data where required.
• Conduct a small-scale demonstration analysis using sample product data.
• Produce a feasibility and research planning memo.

Data Cleaning and Classification

• Collaborate with ATNi researchers to prepare and standardize product datasets.
• Clean nutritional and ingredient information.
• Apply machine learning workflows to classify products into ingredient categories.
• Validate classification outputs and ensure data quality.

Environmental Impact Analysis

• Conduct product composition estimation.
• Calculate environmental impacts using life cycle assessment (LCA) data.
• Adjust analyses using trade-weighted sourcing information.
• Assess environmental impacts across five key categories:
  • Greenhouse gas emissions
  • Land use
  • Water stress
  • Eutrophication
  • Biodiversity

Insight Generation and Interpretation

• Identify trends and patterns across product categories and company portfolios.
• Develop environmental performance scores that can be linked to ATNi’s nutrition profiling assessments.
• Explore synergies and trade-offs between health and sustainability outcomes.
• Recommend effective approaches for visualizing findings.

Reporting and Presentation

• Prepare technical and non-technical outputs.
• Create compelling data visualizations.
• Present interim and final findings to ATNi’s research team.
• Develop documentation that supports transparency and reproducibility.

Expected Deliverables

The consultant will produce several outputs throughout the project, including:

• Feasibility and research plan memo
• Cleaned and standardized product datasets
• Product classification outputs
• Interim findings presentation
• Final analytical report
• Visualizations and recommendations
• Technical methodology documentation
• Final presentation
• Raw and transformed data outputs suitable for future use

The methodology document should clearly explain data sources, analytical processes, limitations, assumptions, and opportunities for future development.

Desired Qualifications and Experience

ATNi is seeking candidates with strong expertise in sustainability analysis, food systems research, and quantitative modelling.

Applicants should possess:

• An advanced degree in sustainability, nutrition, public health, data science, or a related field.
• Experience conducting environmental impact assessments using life cycle assessment (LCA) data.
• Strong quantitative research and data modelling skills.
• Experience working with food systems, nutrition, sustainability, or food product datasets.
• Proficiency in both R and Python for data analysis and modelling.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong organizational abilities and attention to detail.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.

Project Timeline

The consultancy is expected to run between September 2026 and January 2027.

Major activities will include model familiarization, data preparation, product classification, environmental impact analysis, interim reporting, and final documentation. The consultant will participate in regular check-ins with ATNi’s Data and Research Team throughout the assignment.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit the following documents:

• Curriculum Vitae (CV), including links to relevant publications.
• A cover letter (maximum one page) outlining:
  • Interest in the assignment
  • Relevant expertise and experience
  • Availability during the consultancy period
  • Proposed daily consultancy rate

Applications should be sent to Freddie von Kaufmann at freddie.kaufmann@atni.org.

ATNi may invite shortlisted candidates to complete a brief assessment as part of the selection process.

Application Deadline

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with the final deadline set for 10 July 2026.

This consultancy presents an excellent opportunity for sustainability researchers and data professionals to contribute to an influential global initiative that seeks to align nutrition, environmental sustainability, and food system transformation through robust evidence and innovative analysis.

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