Project Assistant, Workforce Nutrition At Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project Assistant, Workforce Nutrition to support the successful delivery of the Workforce Nutrition Programme and implementation of project activities in Bangladesh. This role will be offered on a 2 years’ fixed-term contract basis, subject to availability of funding. You will be based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Reporting to the Project Manager, Workforce Nutrition, the Project Assistant will be responsible for fostering collaboration with the donor, implementation partners, and relevant stakeholders to ensure quality delivery, as well as providing corrective measures to address challenges.

You will also provide essential operational, logistical, and administrative support for the project, contribute to the development of a Project Implementation Plan (PIP), and review its progress against key performance indicators (KPIs) and targets. This position will be based in Dhaka, Bangladesh office and regular travel to project sites will be required.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Providing technical support to develop a comprehensive Project Implementation Plan that outlines clear roles and responsibilities for the implementation partners along with a timeline for target achievements
• Supporting in tracking project progress by updating relevant data on various platforms as requested by the Project Manager
• Offering guidance to factories on implementing health and nutrition improvement interventions for their workers
• Assisting in establishing the Fair Price Shop at selected factory locations by assessing all necessary requirements
• Assisting in developing standard operating procedures for the Fair Price Shop (FPS) and facilitating its implementation
• Supporting the organization of training sessions for factory managers, workers, stakeholders, youth, and adolescents, as well as workshops, meetings, campaigns, and other events at both factory and community levels
• Ensuring the effective implementation and delivery of project interventions as outlined in the Project Implementation Plan (PIP) by participating in regular monitoring visits to project sites
• Conducting regular monitoring and data collection to track project activities, progress, Fair Price Shop (FPS) sales, and meal coverage, while preparing various reports through data analysis and maintaining the project database
• Supporting the project team in documenting experiences, best practices, success stories, presentations, and articles for broader dissemination
• Providing regular updates about projects progress with the Country team, Project Manager, and project team.

About You

The ideal candidate will have experience working in a non-profit, national or international development organisation and the ability to operate within the corporate and public sectors to effectively liaise with private companies, development agencies, and governments in multiple cultures. You will have strong experience in Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector project implementation and management, preferably for workplace public health, research, guideline or manual development and applied knowledge in result-based Monitoring, organizing and implementing.

In addition, you will have experience in providing supportive supervision and programme monitoring at field level and experience in analysis of data and quality reporting.

The ideal candidate will be a dynamic individual with good interpersonal and communication skills and willing and able to work in multicultural, multi-lingual environments. You will possess excellent command of written and spoken English and local language(s). You will be highly flexible and willing to travel to field sites frequently.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree level in business administration, social science, public health nutrition, development studies, international relations, political sciences, agriculture or related field. You will be IT literate with excellent MS Office skills.

About our Offer

The starting salary on offer for this role is from BDT 650,964 – BDT 740,952 per annum (gross salary), 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 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. Working with governments, businesses and civil society, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver healthier diets for all people, especially the most vulnerable.

Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, GAIN has offices in countries with high levels of malnutrition: Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. To support work in those countries, we have representative offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

At GAIN, we believe that everyone in the world should have access to nutritious, safe, and affordable food. Today, one in three people – drawn from nearly every country on the planet – are unable to consume enough nutritious food. We work to develop and deliver solutions to this daily challenge.

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 be currently based and have the existing right to live and work in the Dhaka, Bangladesh region to be eligible to apply for this position.

This advert closes on 21st February 2025. 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.