Associate - Impact & Esg

**About FarMart**:
FarMart is a modern food supply network connecting farming communities, food businesses, and consumers. We are seamlessly integrating food value chains. We source produce scalably via our first-mile platform, optimize processing through an asset-light model, and subsequently distribute finished food digitally. By consolidating complex supply and distribution channels on a single platform, we are changing the way food is bought and sold in India and the world. Our mission is to create more resilient, reliable, and rewarding food value chains for humanity. At FarMart, we're dedicated to building the good food economy.

We're proud to be backed by renowned venture capitalists, including General Catalyst, Matrix Partners, Omidyar Network, and Avaana Capital, who invest in sustainable and purpose-driven tech companies. Our trusted partners include industry leaders like ITC, Sugna, Adani, Olam, Britannia, Glencoe, and Coffeco, among many others.

Founded by childhood friends Alekh Sanghera and Mehtab Singh Hans in 2015, FarMart set out to create a scalable tech solution that would make farming a reputable, profitable, and preferred profession for the next generation. Since our launch in 2015, we've established partnerships with over 230,000 farm aggregators and have positively impacted the lives of 3.2 million farmers and more than 2,000 food businesses worldwide.

To learn more about us, you can refer to the following media coverage:

- Moneycontrol
- Hindu Business Line
- YourStory

**About the Role**:
The Impact and ESG vertical at FarMart works closely with cross functional teams to ensure that impact and sustainability are embedded in the core of the business. As part of this team, you’ll be working on varied projects ranging from impact measurement, ESG, communications, farmer engagement, government relations, investor relations, strategic partnerships, sustainability, research and writing.

This is a self-starter position requiring constant innovation and experimentation. It is ideal for a mid-level professional wanting to gain practical experience on how a growth stage startup works, while contributing your bit towards the lives of the stakeholders.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Assist in impact measurement and management activities. This includes contributing to the impact thesis, conducting user research, working with third party organizations for data collection, quarterly compilation and circulation of impact metrics, and publishing impact reports.
- Assist in ESG management of the company. This includes implementing organization wide policies and programs in compliance with our ESG Action Plan and other national/global ESG standards
- Contributing to conceptualisation and implementation of long term projects for achieving the organizations’ impact and ESG KPIs
- Building and managing government collaborations and strategic partnerships in order to execute impact driven projects
- Contribute to investor relations, including data management and reporting
- Responsible for all impact related communications and positioning for the company

**Must have skills**:

- Bachelor’s or higher degree in a relevant field.
- Minimum 2 years of work experience in a similar field.
- Knowledge and experience of impact measurement & management or communications.
- Experience in conducting quantitative/qualitative research and in writing data driven white papers, articles, blogs.
- General understanding of diverse ESG and Sustainability topics.
- Passion for creating a positive impact on the lives of stakeholders and the environment.

**Good to have skills**
- Experience of working in the agriculture and food industry.
- Knowledge of sustainability reporting guidelines and frameworks (e.g. CDP, TCFD, GRI, SASB, UNGC, UN SDGs).
- Experience in working with government stakeholders.

**What we offer you**:

- A flat and transparent culture with an incredibly high learning curve and a swanky informal workspace which defines our open and vibrant work culture
- Opportunity to solve new and challenging problems with a high scope of innovation, complete ownership of the product, chance to conceptualize and implement your solutions
- Opportunity to work with incredible peers and be a part of the Tech revolution
- Most importantly, a chance to be associated with big impact early in your career

If you're interested in exploring potential opportunities at FarMart or would like to have a quick chat, please share your contact number and resume, and I'll reach out to you.