The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Senior Associate, Stakeholder Engagement, Demand to support with shaping and influencing how the nutrition sector approaches projects on consumer demand.
This position will support the Demand Generation Alliance (DGA) and the Demand Generation Programme. It will be on a 3 years’ fixed term contract basis, subject to availability of funding. This position is open to GAIN’s country offices in Nairobi, Delhi, Utrecht and London.
About GAIN
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with both governments and businesses, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious food for all people. In particular, we aim to make healthier food choices more desirable, more available, and more affordable. GAIN’s mission is to advance nutrition outcomes by improving consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially the most vulnerable to malnutrition.
About the Role
Everyone needs to eat a more sustainable and healthy diet to achieve good nutrition and do so within planetary boundaries. GAIN’s Demand team focus on influencing what people want as opposed to what’s on offer (supply). We are looking at new ways to approach the issue.
Most of the work that’s been done to-date has been focused on giving individuals information to make ‘better choices’, limiting the marketing of certain foods to children via some channels, a little bit on differentiating healthy from less healthy foods through prices or labels, and some promotion of the ‘better choices’.
GAIN’s demand work has two components: DGA and Demand Generation Programmes. The DGA focuses on food culture/ preferences and as an alliance, it is a collaboration between 5 international organisations that represent the type of stakeholder we wish to engage: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), EAT, Global Business School Network (GBSN), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), and Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). The Demand Generation Alliance, under the current funding to GAIN, has a global and country focus, primarily in Kenya, Indonesia, and India.
The Demand Generation Programme, in conjunction with GAIN’s country offices, designs and implements projects to increase the desirability of sustainable and nutritious diets. Our Demand Generation work is active in Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda.
To learn more about the DGA partnership and Demand Generation programme, please visit:
https://www.gainhealth.org/impact/programmes/demand-generation
Reporting to the Programme Lead, Demand Generation, you will lead on the stakeholder engagement as necessary to establish these novel ideas and ways of working with our professional audiences, within and outside GAIN, by promoting their widescale adoption to enable the DGA and GAIN to continue its quest for the adoption of more sustainable and healthier diets.
Key Responsibilities include;
- Translating technical content into easy-to-understand language for each stakeholder segment to ensure that service providers develop the appropriate communication materials and delivery of the learning and socialization activities (e.g., events, trainings, webinars)
- Developing, leading, and maintaining an effective stakeholder relationship management approach of appropriate scale to track progress, including coordinating meeting and managing stakeholder feedback
- Coordinating and implementing the global and country workplan
- Supporting budget management by raising and tracking invoices, payments, and future expenditures within the budget totals
- Converting the strategic goals set out by management into plans consisting of work packages and deliverables
- Supporting the costing of a workplan to deliver the strategy and fundraising by helping to draft proposals and presentations
About You
The ideal candidate will have proven experience with stakeholder engagement across various sectors and a variety of channels within a project environment. You should have experience within the food sector, having worked either in the civic, private and/ or governmental organization.
You should have exceptional project management, relationship management and communication skills including a demonstrated understanding around the technical concepts of demand generation in the food/nutrition sector.
You will possess the ability to express and translate complex ideas and technical documents for general audiences. In addition to this, you must be willing to work in multicultural and multilingual environments.
The ideal candidate should be IT literate, with excellent MS Office skills., Also, you will have excellent presentation and organisational skills and have the ability to maintain the efficient use of project management tools, e.g., GANTT charts, SPRINT process.
A Bachelors’ degree in Sociology/Anthropology, Health or Science Communication or related fields is required. Candidate with a demonstrated ability to understand technical literature in anthropology, sociology, food culture, nutrition is highly desirable.
About our Offer
The starting salary for each office is as follows. A higher increment maybe available depending on experience:
- India: From INR 1,092,444 – INR 1,249,668 per annum
- Kenya: From KES 2,849,328 – KES 3,259,800 per annum
- United Kingdom: From GBP 39,987 – GBP 42,849 per annum
- The Netherlands: From EUR 49,296 – EUR 52,824 per annum
GAIN has a fair and competitive salary structure that allows for annual progression subject to good performance. In addition, GAIN offers a total of 37 days holiday per year (including annual leave, public holidays and additional office closure days), an attractive pension scheme and competitive insurance cover including health, travel and life assurance.
We are committed to the health of our staff, especially in these challenging times, and have developed a programme of wellbeing that includes flexible working, additional leave allowances, wellbeing days, mindfulness coaching and access to independent and confidential counselling.
GAIN also has a strong commitment to professional development. We will support you to grow in your career through both formal and informal training, and are committed to providing opportunities through internal recruitment, secondments and promotion. All of this is delivered in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Our Working Culture and Environment
We provide a flexible working environment that includes a combination of home and office working opportunities through our global hybrid working policy. This encourages our staff to have a healthy work-life balance and increases staff motivation, enriches employee wellbeing, and improves performance and productivity.
All of our positions are based in one or more of GAIN’s designated offices as stated on our job advertisements. Successful candidates will be based in one of GAIN’s country offices and must have the existing right to live and work within a reasonably commutable distance of the relevant city / cities in which the role is advertised. Please note, that GAIN does not sponsor working visas and relocations.
GAIN reserves the right to withdraw an offer of employment for candidates who are considered to ineligible under the above conditions during or after the recruitment process.
This advert closes on 22nd November 2022. Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is committed to equality of opportunity and creating an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. We are keen to reflect the diversity of our society at every level within our organisation and therefore welcome applications from talented and committed people from all backgrounds, representing the diverse societies we operate in.
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