Associate, Children and Young People At Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking an Associate, Children and Young People to provide technical and administrative support to project activities under the Children and Young People theme particularly those targeted at children under 10 years old and in support of GAIN’s infant foods and school feeding initiatives in the African region. This role will be offered on a two(2) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in either Abuja, Nigeria or Nairobi, Kenya.

The Associate will support the development and implementation of GAIN’s strategy focusing on the African regional infant foods domestic market, as well supporting to coordinate GAIN’s school feeding and youth employment activities. They will be involved in core project activities as well as providing a range of support services, including communications, stakeholder management, preparation and delivery of training, preparation of reports and briefs, maintaining project documentation, to ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards and within agreed scope, in line with GAINs Project Management Guidelines.

The Associate, Children and Young People also undertakes various administrative tasks, organizing, coordinating, scheduling, and attending meetings with team members, stakeholders, service providers and partners.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Provide technical and administrative support to programme and country teams implementing programmatic activities related to infant foods, liaising with other GAIN departments.
• Support the internal school feeding community of practice (COP), helping to shape COP agenda, setting up and documenting meetings and activities.
• Participate in the development of GAIN’s strategy on youth employment under the leadership of the Programme Lead.
• Contribute to building internal and external awareness of GAIN’s food systems for children work (including dissemination of project activities and findings, communications assets, working papers and other publications on GAIN’s work) as required, technical groups and seminars / conferences.
• In close collaboration with the procurement function support the administrative aspects of the project procurement process.

About you

The ideal candidate should have experience providing technical and administrative support to programme and country teams implementing programmatic activities related to infant foods. Previous experience working in private sector with SMEs or SME support organisations, school feeding projects coupled with an understanding of food systems or agriculture, infant and children’s nutrition is preferred.

You should have experience delivering trainings, preparation of reports and briefs, maintaining project documentation in addition to supporting core project activities such as stakeholder management and communication. This role will provide project procurement administrative support in collaboration with the country office procurement focal persons.

An education background with a degree in Food Technology, Food Science, Business Administration, Public Policy, or related field is required.

About our Offer

The starting gross salary on offer for this role is as below.

• Nigeria: NGN 7’388’496 – NGN 8’437’104 gross per annum depending on experience.
• Kenya: KES 2’207’664 – KES 2’519’424 gross per annum depending on experience.

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 and hybrid 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.

About GAIN

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Due to COVID19, conflict in Ukraine and climate change, malnutrition and hunger have worsened significantly since 2019, reversing a decade of progress. There is growing recognition that our food systems need to change if we are to reverse these trends.

GAIN’s Strategy aims to transform food systems to make healthier diets from sustainable food systems accessible to all people and especially those whose are most vulnerable to shocks. By 2027, we aim to improve the access of 1.5 billion people to nutritionally enhanced staple foods, improve the access of 25 million people to healthier diets, and support positive food system change in 10 countries. This is bold and complex, and the only way to achieve this is to work together with partners including governments, businesses, and civil society at the country and global level. These goals, and the ways of achieving them, build on our twenty-year legacy of transforming people’s lives with improved nutrition through concerted action and effective policy change.

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.

Applicants must have the right to work and be currently based in the advertised country location, to be eligible to apply for this position.

This advert closes on 26th March 2024. 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.