About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking for a Technical Specialist, Knowledge Leadership to support the implementation and dissemination of research, evaluation and learning activities in supporting the country and global programme teams. This role will be offered on a fixed-term contract basis until December 2025, subject to availability of funding. You will be based in New Delhi, India.

Reporting to the Senior Technical Specialist, Knowledge Leadership, the Technical Specialist will support the implementation of multiple research, evaluation, learning, and knowledge management activities related to GAIN’s efforts to digitize fortification quality and strengthen enabling environments under the digital QA/QC project.

Key Responsibilities include

• Implementing the research, evaluation, learning, and knowledge management activities under the digital QA/QC project, including designing research questions and methodology, developing research plans, and interacting with partners and contractors as needed to carry out the activities
• Carrying out literature reviews, stakeholder consultations, evidence synthesis, and other desk activities from development of the approach through to implementation, report writing, and publication/dissemination
• Supporting in-country field implementation of research, evaluation, learning, and knowledge management activities, including visiting study sites and interacting with project partners (e.g., implementing partners, consultants, contractors) to ensure timely and quality progress
• Carrying out rigorous analyses on quantitative (and to a lesser extent qualitative) data and developing data visualizations and formatting for oral and written dissemination
• Contributing to or leading the development of project reports and other knowledge products, including research articles, briefings, presentations, and associated tables/figures
• Supporting periodic and donor reporting on the results frameworks and alignment with monitoring systems (e.g., indicators, tools and processes)

About You

The ideal candidate will have sound professional experience in relevant research, program monitoring and/or evaluation, and knowledge mobilization areas. You will have experience in designing, implementing, and managing research related to nutrition, public health, agriculture, and/or relevant domains, ideally including field data collection such as surveys . Candidates with experience working with both quantitative and qualitative or mixed methods research would be an advantage.

In addition to this, you will have solid technical expertise in nutrition, public health, or food systems (or closely related domains). Candidates with understanding of gender dynamics in low- and middle-income countries as they related to food production and choices is an asset.

The postholder will possess fluent written and spoken English and have strong communication and cultural competency skills to work in multicultural environments.

A Master’s level in nutrition, public health, agriculture or related field. The ideal candidate will have skills in research methods (e.g., design, implementation, data analysis, and dissemination) and ability to visualize and communicate data and research outcomes for diverse audiences, candidates with experience with data analysis, visualization and reporting, knowledge of R is an asset.

About our Offer

The starting salary on offer for this role is from INR 1,165,476 – INR 1,333,212 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. 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 be currently based and have the existing right to live and work in the New Delhi, India to be eligible to apply for this position.

This advert closes on 12th December 2023. 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.