Intern in Impact Venture Building

vor 3 Wochen


Zurich, Schweiz Brainforest Vollzeit

Brainforest is globally the first venture studio that focuses on forests as a superior natural climate solution. By harnessing state-of-the-art technology and the potential of forests, we deliver entrepreneurial solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis in the form of independent impact ventures. How do we achieve this? By understanding existing market barriers, identifying system-changing opportunities, and empowering entrepreneurs to build game-changing and profitable ventures. Through our seed funding and diverse team of visionary entrepreneurs, engineers and forestry experts, we are creating an ecosystem of solutions that significantly contributes to more forests, biodiversity, and a better climate.

We are looking for a recent Bachelor Student or similar to join our team for the next 6 months fulltime. During this time, you will join our different teams to maximize your learning opportunities: Brainforest Core as Executive Assistant, the Regenerative Food Forest Lab and our Biodiversity Lab. We operate in a hybrid mode out of our home offices and in our office in Seefeld, Zürich.

Tasks

Brainforest Core (30-50%)

  • Be the executive assistant for the Brainforest CEO
  • Support the Brainforest management in various activities like fundraising, meeting preparation, ad-hoc task
  • Improve our processes (finances, operations, hr etc.)

Regenerative Food Forest Lab & Biodiversity Lab (50-70%)

  • Assist the Venture Building team and the Entrepreneurs in Residence to develop impact business models for the new ventures
  • Research to create understanding and knowhow as a basis for our venture building activities
  • Support our Venture Program (similar to an accelerator) by helping entrepreneurs on their journey from 0-1
  • Work closely with our Venture Builders to ideate new solutions, prototype them, validate them and develop them further to full solutions
Requirements
  • Enrolled in or recently completed a Bachelor program from a top university, ideally in business administration, finance, strategy and international management, marketing, entrepreneurship or equivalent
  • First experience in the startup or VC world highly beneficial but not mandatory
  • Analytical mindset to identify new opportunities in a structured and logical way
  • You comfortably and quickly bring ideas, research, conclusions and condensed understanding of a topic into written and verbal form to convey your findings and the inputs from others
  • Strong communication skills, written and verbal, in English; German is a plus.
  • Drive for positive environmental and social impact
  • Good understanding of any of the following areas is a plus: Natural Climate Solutions, Marketing, DLT/Web 3.0, Re/Afforestation, Carbon Projects or Markets, Biodiversity or Agroforestry
Benefits
  • Start your professional career in a mission-driven, dynamic, caring and inclusive work environment with real impact. Your work will make a difference in the world.
  • Working with and learning from experienced entrepreneurs, renowned experts and the chance to globally build your network
  • Enjoy a steep and long learning curve and build your very own toolbox for your future startup
  • We are a small team where ideas and opinions matter


About BrainforestBrainforest is globally the first venture studio that focuses on forests as a superior natural climate solution. By harnessing state of the art technology and the potential of forests, we deliver entrepreneurial solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis in the form of independent impact ventures.How do we achieve this? By understanding existing market barriers, identifying sys- tem changing opportunities, and empowering entrepreneurs to build game changing and profitable ventures. Through our seed funding and diverse team of visionary en- trepreneurs, engineers and forestry experts, we are creating an ecosystem of solu- tions that significantly contributes to more forests, biodiversity, and a better climate.



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