Employment Opportunities at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (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. 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 those most vulnerable to malnutrition.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Manager, Advancing Nutrition Project – Biofortification

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Classification: D4 Project Manager
Direct reports: 1 – 5
Travel required: Up to 40%

Overall Purpose

• The GAIN Advancing Nutrition in Staple Crop Value Chains in Nigeria project proposes a set of nutrition-sensitive interventions to support the BMZ/GIZ Green Innovation Centre (GIC) in Nigeria to strengthen businesses and the value chains of cassava, maize, potato and rice through targeted business support activities, workforce nutrition interventions and increased production and use of biofortified crops.
• GAIN proposes to deliver an integrated suite of activities to support the GIC in Nigeria to strengthen their priority value chains and improve food and nutrition security through improved diets for farmers, farm workers, other workers in businesses in these value chains, and among the wider population in Nigeria.
• The biofortification component of this project will support and strengthen current activities under the GIC to make them more nutrition sensitive over the next 5 years in at least four focal states. The initiative is intended to achieve the increased consumption of nutritious foods by smallholder farmers, their families, and the wider population, strengthen the cassava, maize, potato and rice value chains in Nigeria to provide more, safe nutritious foods to consumers, increase the use of nutritious varieties of the target staples in processed food, and improve the productivity and efficiency of farmers and other businesses to improve the production of nutritious foods in the target value chains
• The post holder will support the Senior Project Manager, Supply Chains and will be directly responsible for the implementation and oversight of the biofortification component. They will apply social and commercial marketing tools to bring these nutritious staples to scale in the implementation states.

Tasks and Responsibilities
Project management and oversight:

• Deliver project management in accordance with the GAIN guidelines.
• Support the Senior Project Manager, Supply Chains for Commercialization to manage the development of project workplans and budgets and track progress, including direct provision of regular updates to the Workstream global leads, funders, and country team leadership.
• Provide technical oversight to the implementation of activities that strengthen businesses and advance nutrition in target crop value chains.
• Work with GAIN’s leadership to provide effective monitoring and tracking activities, outputs, outcomes and impact and adhere to the reporting requirements of the project.
• Provide mediation to resolve any project implementation issues including differences between stakeholder and internal groups.

Knowledge management:

• Ensure project outputs are well informed and up to date by keeping an eye on the relevant literature to ensure that the project remains fully informed by advances in the field.
• Maintain a reference document repository.
• Maintain high level liaison with government stakeholders and other organizations working on complementary projects in the country context to share knowledge and best practice.
• Plan and lead the creation of communications materials and capture lessons learned with support from the Communications Lead.
• Take part in and lead webinar presentations etc. to share GAIN’s experience.

Donor relations:

• Prepare and be accountable for periodic donor reports and support global collation of wider programme reports and updates.
• Support the identification of new funding opportunities to fund the project as part of a long-term strategy.
• Support resource mobilisation efforts for GAIN Nigeria programme, based on the business plan and wider strategic objectives.

Gender focus:

• Ensure the initiative is gender-sensitive, and where feasible, gender-transformative working through project design and implementation to continuously strengthen gender focus.
• Keep track of gender results, ensure the initiative is gender-sensitive, and where feasible, gender-transformative.
• Synthesize and disseminate knowledge and evidence from GAIN Nigeria programmes that can help drive the agenda for nutritious and safe food in Nigeria

People management:

• Support the recruitment of key staff (direct reports) and motivate team members to attain project goals, adhere to their responsibilities and project milestones.
• Monitor staff performance and complete performance reviews.

Key organizational relationships:

• Reports to the Senior Project Manager, Supply Chains for Commercialization
• Close working with the colleagues working on the EatSafe Project, Marketplace for Nutritious Foods, Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F), Commercialization of Biofortified Crops (CBC), and the SUN Business Network (SBN)
• Regular engagements with global Workstream Leads and colleagues in other GAIN Country Offices delivering similar projects.
• External partners including government, complimenting organizations and donors
• Line manages 1-5 direct reports.
• Close collaboration with the project teams in GAIN Nigeria
• Other Nigeria Country Office staff

Job Requirements
Education:

• Minimum degree level qualification related to food science, nutrition, health, agriculture, business management or suitable equivalent.
• Master’s level qualifications in the above or similarly relevant field of study/expertise highly preferred

Other requirements:

• Excellent communication and command of English (written and spoken)
• Project management qualification desired
• Ability/fluency in one or more of the major Nigerian languages an asset

Competencies:

• Strong project management skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to present sometimes complex information to a diverse audience.
• Ability to build relationships and influence at a high level.
• Able to work effectively within a multi-cultural, matrix-style organization.
• Analytical skills, able to review data and present meaningful reports.
• Able to effectively prioritize and multi-task, often working under pressure to achieve deadlines.
• Computer literate, with the ability to use MS Office Suite and other bespoke systems to support effective delivery

Experience:

• Proven project management experience in creating demand in the food or agricultural value chains.
• Experience of working with government at municipal, and state levels.
• Experience or deep understanding of the private sector especially MSMEs
• Understanding and some experience/technical knowledge of health systems
• Demonstrated success in building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Working with stakeholders from business, civil society, government, donors at national international level
• Experience in stimulating demand for food and agricultural commodities through commercial and or social marketing methods.

What Gain Offers

• Flexible working hours
• Friendly working environment
• Professional development opportunities

Salary

• Starting salary NGN 7,012,999 – 8,004,527 per annum (depending on experience). More may be available for exceptional candidates.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.

Click here for more on the Job Description (PDF)

Job Title: Head of Policy and Advocacy

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Classification: C6 – Head of Department
Direct Reports: 1 – 5
Travel Required: Up to 30%

Details

• 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.
• The Food Systems Summit will be held in September/October 2021, it is hosted by the UN Secretary General and involving all UN member states. It has a declared focus on system change addressing interconnected challenges: environmental sustainability, planetary boundary limits especially climate change, and increasing inequalities around access to food security and healthy diets. The FSS also takes place in a year which will see the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in December 2021 in which GAIN is actively involved, and which has a specific focus on nutrition commitment within food systems.

Overall Purpose

• A critical component of the Food Systems Summit will be national planning processes to develop coherent plans. One component of the FSS strategy is a set of food systems dialogues hosted by every member state to this end.
• The Head of Policy and Advocacy will be responsible for ensuring that the interventions led by GAIN and by its different partners are coordinated so that overall project and policy milestones and goals are met. They will be expected to provide technical support to project staff as required.
• The inclusion of nutritious and safe foods as a major theme is well aligned with GAIN’s strategy to make nutritious foods more affordable and accessible for all. The FSS is therefore a major opportunity to advance our strategy and merits a special effort to link and align many aspects of our programmes, learning and influencing. Country level participation, through the influencing work led by the Country Director and the Head of Policy and Advocacy is the key to its success.
• The postholder lead GAIN Nigeria’s wider influencing agenda and support country office management and leadership as part of the Senior Management Team

Tasks and Responsibilities
Lead GAIN’s policy work in country and carry out the following tasks:

Food Systems Summit:

• Tracking and mapping national preparations for the Food Systems Summit, and the N4G Summit
• Act as a technical and organisational resource to facilitate and support national food systems dialogue/s and other planning mechanisms to develop a national food action plan and/or plans and commitments made at the Summits
• Engage in, and where appropriate, contribute and facilitate the preparations for the national commitments
• Facilitate GAIN expertise derived from its national programmes and its global expertise into national consultation and planning see [www.gainhealth.org].
• Be the principal country link to the cross-GAIN working group on the Summit
• Lead on internal communication to educate and inform fellow GAIN colleagues on the objectives of the summit and each GAIN staff member can contribute.
• Integrate and align the Food Systems Summit policy and advocacy work into GAIN’s national business plan.

Influencing Agenda:

• Monitor, attend and engage to represent GAIN, where appropriate, in key national-level and country-level policy fora and meetings.
• Lead on external engagement with key stakeholders in government, private sector, UN, donors and civil
• society including academia, media, and other development practitioners; to improve support for GAIN’s mission and increase resources allocated to nutrition in Nigeria.
• Synthesize and disseminate knowledge and evidence from GAIN Nigeria programmes that can help drive the agenda for nutritious and safe food in Nigeria.
• Create opportunities to spread key messages arising from GAIN Nigeria programming through e.g. media, social media, and positioning events.

Country Team Management and Leadership:

• As a member of the GAIN Nigeria Senior Management Team, contribute to overall country team management to support the delivery of the country office business plan
• Recruit, manage and develop high-performing staff to create and maintain an effective and motivated team.
• Contribute to and in some cases lead proposal development and resource mobilization efforts to build the country office project portfolio and expand the scope of our work in Nigeria

Key Organizational Relationships

• GAIN Nigeria Country Director & the GAIN Nigeria team
• 1-5 direct reports
• The Policy and Advocacy team
• Food Systems Summit Team
• Programme Services Team, Knowledge Leadership, Communications, Nutrition Connect and implementation focal points
• Key partners including government, communities, private sector, UN, civil society organizations, donors, research institutions

Job Requirements
Skill Profile:

• Significant professional experience of policy development and planning work within a government, INGO or private sector setting that involves public private engagement
• Key understanding of food systems transformation approaches
• Ability to analyze complex policy challenges and chart practical ways forward
• Relationship management skills, including the ability to operate comfortably at senior levels with government, business, civil society and donors.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a range of different stakeholders from business, farmers, civil society, academia, consumers, etc.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills with good research skills

Desirable:

• Currently engaging in food policy dialogue at high levels in local context
• Capacity to work closely with national stakeholders to progress the Food Systems Summit influencing agenda and GAIN’s Action Track 1 work
• Familiarity with some of GAIN’s advocacy tools: Food Systems Dashboard, Enabling Business to Advance Nutrition Index (EBANI), Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI), etc.

Education:

• Masters Level qualification in a relevant discipline e.g. public health or nutrition, business or public administration, public policy or related field or equivalent combination and stakeholder engagement, project management work experience.
• Diploma or equivalent certification in project management or business administration is highly desirable. Preferable: PRINCE2 (Foundation and/or Practitioner), Scrum Master, Agile PM.

Other Requirements:

• Excellent command of written and spoken English and a local language required
• Willingness and ability to travel, within and outside of Nigeria
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
• Pragmatic, dynamic and autonomous person.

What Gain Offers

• Salary: Starting salary up to 13,716,145 per annum (depending on experience). An increased starting salary may be available for exceptional candidates
• Flexible working hours
• Friendly working environment
• Professional development opportunities

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Click here for more information (PDF)

Job Title: Project Manager, Advancing Nutrition Project – Business Support

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Classification: D4 Project Manager
Direct reports: 1 – 5
Travel required: Up to 40%

Overall Purpose

• The GAIN Advancing Nutrition in Staple Crop Value Chains in Nigeria project proposes a set of nutrition-sensitive interventions to support the BMZ/GIZ Green Innovation Centre (GIC) in Nigeria to strengthen businesses and the value chains of cassava, maize, potato and rice through targeted business support activities, workforce nutrition interventions and increased production and use of biofortified crops. GAIN proposes to deliver an integrated suite of activities to support the GIC in Nigeria to strengthen their priority value chains and improve food and nutrition security through improved diets for farmers, farm workers, other workers in businesses in these value chains, and among the wider population in Nigeria.
• The Project Manager will support the Senior Project Manager, Supply Chains and will be directly responsible for leading the design and implementation of the Business Support component of the project.
• The post-holder will be expected to develop strong relationships with relevant partners, exploiting synergies within GAIN and with external stakeholders to ensure continued, effective project delivery. He/she will be responsible for influencing, providing leadership, and reconciling stakeholders’ interests in the project ensuring that the agreed project activities are implemented within project timelines.

Tasks and Responsibilities
Project management and oversight:

• Deliver project management in accordance with the GAIN guidelines.
• Develop nutrition sensitive training and Social Behavior Change communication materials and implement throughout the project cycle.
• Support the Senior Project Manager to manage the development of nutrition sensitive workplans and budgets and track progress, including direct provision of regular updates to the Workstream global leads, funders, and country team leadership.
• Provide technical oversight to the implementation of activities that strengthen businesses and advance nutrition in target crop value chains.
• Work with GAIN’s leadership to provide effective monitoring and tracking activities, outputs, outcomes and impact and adhere to the reporting requirements of the project.
• Provide mediation to resolve any project implementation issues including differences between stakeholder and internal groups.

Knowledge management:

• Ensure project outputs are well informed and up to date by keeping an eye on the relevant literature to ensure that the project remains fully informed by advances in the field.
• Maintain a reference document repository.
• Maintain high level liaison with government stakeholders and other organizations working on complementary projects in the country context to share knowledge and best practice.
• Plan and lead the creation of communications materials and capture lessons learned with support from the Communications Lead.
• Take part in and lead webinar presentations etc. to share GAIN’s experience.

Donor relations:

• Prepare and be accountable for periodic donor reports and support global collation of wider programme reports and updates.
• Support the identification of new funding opportunities to fund the project as part of a long-term strategy.
• Support resource mobilisation efforts for GAIN Nigeria programme, based on the business plan and wider strategic objectives.

Gender focus:

• Ensure the initiative is gender-sensitive, and where feasible, gender-transformative working through project design and implementation to continuously strengthen gender focus.
• Keep track of gender results, ensure the initiative is gender-sensitive, and where feasible, gender-transformative.
• Synthesize and disseminate knowledge and evidence from GAIN Nigeria programmes that can help drive the agenda for nutritious and safe food in Nigeria.

People management:

• Support the recruitment of key staff (direct reports) and motivate team members to attain project goals, adhere to their responsibilities and project milestones.
• Monitor staff performance and complete performance reviews.

Key organizational relationships:

• Reports to the Senior Project Manager, Supply Chains
• Close working with the colleagues working on the EatSafe Project, Marketplace for Nutritious Foods, Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F), Commercialisation of Biofortified Crops (CBC), and the SUN Business Network (SBN)
• Regular engagements with global Workstream Leads and colleagues in other GAIN Country Offices delivering similar projects.
• External partners including government, complimenting organizations and donors.
• Line manages 1-5 direct reports.
• Close collaboration with the project teams in GAIN Nigeria
• Other Nigeria Country Office staff

Job Requirements
Education:

• Minimum degree level qualification related to food science, nutrition, health, agriculture, business management or suitable equivalent
• Master’s level qualifications in the above or similarly relevant field of study/expertise highly preferred

Other requirements:

• Excellent communication and command of English (written and spoken)
• Project management qualification desired
• Ability/fluency in one or more of the major Nigerian languages an asset

Competencies:

• Strong project management skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to lead across smallholder farmers and other businesses.
• Ability to present sometimes complex information to a diverse audience
• Political awareness, and ability to build relationships and influence at a high level.
• Able to work effectively within a multi-cultural, matrix-style organization
• Analytical skills, able to review data and present meaningful reports
• Able to effectively prioritize and multi-task, often working under pressure to achieve deadlines
• Computer literate, with the ability to use MS Office Suite and other bespoke systems to support effective delivery

Experience:

• Proven experience in Social Behavior Change Communication research and implementation in food and agricultural value chains.
• Experience of working with government, business, civil society, and donor organizations/stakeholders at national and international levels
• Experience of working with government at municipal, and state levels.
• Experience or deep understanding of the private sector especially MSMEs
• Understanding and some experience/technical knowledge of health systems
• Track record of success in building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in stimulating demand for food and agricultural commodities through social marketing.

What Gain Offers

• Flexible working hours
• Friendly working environment
• Professional development opportunities

Salary

• Starting salary NGN 7,012,999 – 8,004,527 per annum (depending on experience). More may be available for exceptional candidates.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.

Click here for more on the Job Description (PDF)

Job Title: Senior Project Manager, Supply Chains for Commercialisation

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Classification: C5 – Senior Project Manager
Direct reports: 1 – 5
Travel required: Up to 40%

Overall purpose

• The supply Chain for Commercialization Programme portfolio aims to develop and strengthen supply chains for nutritious and safe foods through improved access to agricultural inputs, improved market linkages, support to businesses to address other supply chain gaps that will hinder access to markets and commercialization of nutritious and safe foods.
• The post holder will oversee programmatic offerings such as the Commercialization of Biofortified Crops and the Advancing Nutrition in Staple Crop Value Chains in Nigeria as well as other projects to strengthen agricultural supply chains by supporting the development of an efficient supply chain system from farm to market while working with key value chain actors to improve accessibility and availability of nutritious and safe foods especially in states where GAIN Nigeria is implementing projects.
• The Senior Project Manager will be directly responsible for the delivery of all projects under the program portfolio to achieve GAIN Nigeria’s Business Plan. They will be responsible for leading teams under this initiative and will bring excellent project management skills. They will provide technical leadership, manage resources and handle the strategic and day-to-day activities that support the achievement of the project’s objectives. The post-holder will be expected to quickly develop strong relationships with relevant partners, exploiting synergies within GAIN and with external stakeholders to ensure continued, effective, and timely project delivery. They will be responsible for influencing, providing leadership, and reconciling stakeholders’ interests in the project ensuring that the agreed objectives and aims are achieved.

Tasks and responsibilities
Project management and oversight:

• Deliver project management in accordance with the GAIN guidelines.
• Provide high level oversight and leadership, integrating all workstreams under this initiative into a coherent project, including planning resource allocation, keeping full view of overlaps between workstreams.
• Lead and manage the development of project workplans and budgets and track progress, including direct provision of regular updates to the Workstream global leads, funders, and country team leadership.
• Provide technical oversight to the implementation of activities that strengthen businesses and advance nutrition in target crop value chains.
• Provide mediation to resolve any project implementation issues including differences between stakeholder and internal groups.

Knowledge management:

• Work closely with the Knowledge and Learning Lead and ensure project outputs are well informed and up to date by keeping an eye on the relevant literature to ensure that the project remains fully informed by advances in the field.
• Maintain a reference document repository.
• Maintain high level liaison with government stakeholders and other organizations working on complementary projects in the country context to share knowledge and best practice.
• Plan and lead the creation of communications materials and capture lessons learned with support from the Communications Lead.
• Take part in and lead webinar presentations etc. to share GAIN’s experience.

Donor relations:

• Manage donor relationships; lead and initiate donor engagement and calls in relation to the country project implementation.
• Coordinate, prepare and be accountable for periodic donor reporting cycles and manage global collation of wider programme reports and updates.
• Lead the identification of new funding opportunities to fund the project as part of a long-term strategy.
• Support resource mobilisation efforts for GAIN Nigeria programme, based on the business plan and wider strategic objectives.

Gender focus:

• Ensure the initiative is gender-sensitive, and where feasible, gender-transformative working through project design and implementation to continuously strengthen gender focus.
• Keep track of gender results, ensure the initiative is gender-sensitive, and where feasible, gender-transformative.
• Synthesize and disseminate knowledge and evidence from GAIN Nigeria programmes that can help drive the agenda for nutritious and safe food in Nigeria

People management:

• Line manage a number of senior direct reports including supporting work plan development and performance management.
• Develop team members in order to maximize their contribution to the team and organization;
• Coach, guide and mentor leaders within programme team and the department so that they are effective as leaders and managers in managing their teams.
• Ensure the recruitment, management and development of high performing team in line with the demands of the programmatic strategy

Key organizational relationships:

• Reports to the Country Director (and subsequently, the Head of Programmes)
• Close working with the colleagues working on the EatSafe Project, Marketplace for Nutritious Foods, Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F), Commercialisation of Biofortified Crops (CBC), and the SUN Business Network (SBN)
• Regular engagements with global Workstream Leads and colleagues in other GAIN Country Offices delivering similar projects.
• External partners including government, complimenting organizations and donors.
• Line manages 1-5 direct reports.
• Close collaboration with the project teams in GAIN Nigeria
• Other Nigeria Country Office staff

Job Requirements
Competencies:

• Strong leadership, motivational, analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to lead across smallholder farmers and other businesses.
• Demonstrated success in leading projects and project management staff to achieve high quality results
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to present sometimes complex information to a diverse audience.
• Ability to build relationships and influence at a high level.
• Able to work effectively within a multi-cultural, matrix-style organization.
• Analytical skills, able to review data and present meaningful reports.
• Able to effectively prioritize and multi-task, often working under pressure to achieve deadlines.
• Computer literate, with the ability to use MS Office Suite and other bespoke systems to support effective delivery

Experience:

• Proven track record in project management for agribusiness to improve Agricultural market linkages within an international development setting.
• Experience of working with government at municipal, state and national levels.
• Experience or deep understanding of the private sector especially MSMEs
• Understanding and some experience/technical knowledge in food systems
• Understanding and some experience/technical knowledge of health systems
• Prior experience working within a donor-funded environment and of donor reporting.
• Demonstrated success in building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Working with stakeholders from business, civil society, government, donors at national international level
• Experience in working across sectors to deliver complex projects/programmes.
• Experienced in report writing and the ability to analyze and make recommendations for the improvement of technical reports and business documents (business plans, market research etc.)
• Experience organizing and facilitating meetings with public officials.
• Experience of state and national-level governance systems and politics.

Education:

• Minimum degree level qualification related to food science, nutrition, health, agriculture, business management or suitable equivalent
• Master’s level qualifications in the above or similarly relevant field of study/expertise highly preferred

Other requirements:

• Excellent communication and command of English (written and spoken)
• Project management qualification desired
• Ability/fluency in one or more of the major Nigerian languages an asset

What Gain Offers

• Salary: Starting salary up to NGN 11,035,919 (depending on experience). A higher starting salary may be available for exceptional candidates.
• Flexible working hours
• Friendly working environment
• Professional development opportunities

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Click here for more information (PDF)

Job Title: Project Manager, Supporting Markets for Nutritious Foods

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Classification: D4 Project Manager
Direct reports: 1 – 5
Travel required: Up to 40%

Overall Purpose

• The Supporting Market for Nutritious Foods Project aims to build resilient and sustainable markets in the food and Agricultural value chains to address challenges that impact on the food systems of low-income countries especially during natural disasters.
• The project aims to provide emergency business guidance and grants to SMEs providing safe, nutritious foods; sustain and reinforce the gains of Large-Scale Food Fortification; keep food marketplace infrastructure open, but safer; secure workplace nutrition protection for food system workers and their families; provide advisory and practical support to governments to help keep critical coordination mechanisms functioning and help food systems keep working; and deliver research into impacts and mitigation.
• The Project Manager will lead the design and implementation of the project in Nigeria. The post-holder will be expected to develop strong relationships with relevant partners, exploiting synergies within GAIN and with external stakeholders to ensure continued, effective project delivery. He/she will be responsible for influencing, providing leadership and reconciling stakeholders’ interests in the project ensuring that the agreed project activities are implemented within project timelines.
• The Project Manager will support the Senior Project Manager, Supporting Markets for Nutritious Foods (SMNF) implement projects under the SMNF portfolio.
• They will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to set strategic direction of the project, work closely with key food and Agri- businesses, and market stakeholders to build sustainable and resilient markets along the food and agricultural value chains in Nigeria.

Tasks and Responsibilities
Project management and oversight:

• Deliver project management in accordance with the GAIN guidelines.
• Support the Senior Project manager to manage the development of project workplans and budgets and track progress, including direct provision of regular updates to the Workstream global leads, funders, and country team leadership.
• Provide technical oversight to the implementation of activities that strengthen businesses and advance nutrition in target crop value chains.
• Work with GAIN’s leadership to provide effective monitoring and tracking activities, outputs, outcomes and impact and adhere to the reporting requirements of the project.
• Provide mediation to resolve any project implementation issues including differences between stakeholder and internal groups.

Knowledge management:

• Ensure project outputs are well informed and up to date by keeping an eye on the relevant literature to ensure that the project remains fully informed by advances in the field.
• Maintain a reference document repository.
• Maintain high level liaison with government stakeholders and other organizations working on complementary projects in the country context to share knowledge and best practice.
• Plan and lead the creation of communications materials and capture lessons learned with support from the Communications Lead.
• Take part in and lead webinar presentations etc. to share GAIN’s experience.

Donor relations:

• Prepare and be accountable for periodic donor reports and support global collation of wider programme reports and updates.
• Support the identification of new funding opportunities to fund the project as part of a long-term strategy.
• Support resource mobilisation efforts for GAIN Nigeria programme, based on the business plan and wider strategic objectives.

Gender focus:

• Ensure the initiative is gender-sensitive, and where feasible, gender-transformative working through project design and implementation to continuously strengthen gender focus.
• Keep track of gender results, ensure the initiative is gender-sensitive, and where feasible, gender-transformative.
• Synthesize and disseminate knowledge and evidence from GAIN Nigeria programmes that can help drive the agenda for nutritious and safe food in Nigeria

People management:

• Support the recruitment of key staff (direct reports) and motivate team members to attain project goals, adhere to their responsibilities and project milestones.
• Monitor staff performance and complete performance reviews.

Key organizational relationships:

• Reports to the Senior Project Manager, Supply Chains
• Close working with the colleagues working on the EatSafe Project, Marketplace for Nutritious Foods, Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F), Commercialization of Biofortified Crops (CBC), and the SUN Business Network (SBN)
• Regular engagements with global Workstream Leads and colleagues in other GAIN Country Offices delivering similar projects
• External partners including government, complimenting organizations and donors
• Line manages 1-5 direct reports.
• Close collaboration with the project teams in GAIN Nigeria
• Other Nigeria Country Office staff

Job Requirements
Education:

• Minimum degree level qualification related to food Science, Nutrition, Health, Agriculture, Business Management or suitable equivalent
• Master’s level qualifications in the above or similarly relevant field of study/expertise highly preferred

Other requirements:

• Excellent communication and command of English (written and spoken)
• Project management qualification desired
• Ability/fluency in one or more of the major Nigerian languages an asset

Competencies:

• Strong project management skills
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to lead across smallholder farmers and other businesses.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to present sometimes complex information to a diverse audience.
• Ability to build relationships and influence at a high level.
• Able to work effectively within a multi-cultural, matrix-style organization.
• Analytical skills, able to review data and present meaningful reports.
• Able to effectively prioritize and multi-task, often working under pressure to achieve deadlines.
• Computer literate, with the ability to use MS Office Suite and other bespoke systems to support effective delivery

Experience:

• Proven project and or business management experience in a similar capacity.
• Experience in livelihood projects in Nigeria
• Experience of working with government at municipal, and state levels.
• Experience or deep understanding of the private sector especially MSMEs
• Understanding and some experience/technical knowledge of health systems
• Demonstrated success in building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Working with stakeholders from business, civil society, government, donors at national international level
• Experience in stimulating demand for food and agricultural commodities through social marketing.

What Gain Offers

• Flexible working hours
• Friendly working environment
• Professional development opportunities

Salary

• Starting salary NGN 7,012,999 – 8,004,527 per annum (depending on experience). More may be available for exceptional candidates.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.

Click here for more on the Job Description (PDF)

Job Title: Head of Programmes

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Classification: C6 – Head of Team
Direct reports: 1 – 5
Travel required: Up to 35%

Overall purpose

• The GAIN Nigeria office is now seeking a dynamic Head of Programmes (HoP) to support the Nigeria Director in fulfilling the vision and strategy of the food and nutrition portfolio, as well as contribute to securing future funding to ensure sustainability.
• The Head of Programmes (HoP) will be responsible for overseeing the design, development, and successful implementation of the GAIN Nigeria Programme Portfolio. They are responsible for ensuring that GAIN’s programmes and projects are of excellent technical quality, delivered on time and on budget and coordinated.
• As part of the senior management team of the GAIN Nigeria office, the HoP assists in ensuring organizational efficiency and effectiveness through participation in decision making, advising on strategic programmatic areas, solving problems, communication and implementation of agreed decisions.

Tasks and Responsibilities
Strategic leadership:

• Support the Country Director with the development, implementation and quality management of the Nigeria strategy so it maximizes impact to transforming local food systems for better nutrition.
• Support the Country Director with the planning and tracking of progress of the implementation of the Nigeria strategy, including the development and review of annual business plans, to support the vision set out in the Nigeria strategy.
• Working with the Country Director in building relationships with external constituents – for the purposes of advocacy, influencing, and identifying appropriate partner organizations.
• Supporting the Country Director in the building of a strong sourcing network and long-term pipeline of programme investments and impact grants.

Programme Design and Implementation:

• Lead the program team to conceptualize and operationalize impactful interventions to improve nutrition outcomes in Nigeria, including providing leadership in GAIN design and implementation QUADS.
• Lead and provide management support to the implementation of all projects and ensuring effective and successful delivery of the project milestones and results, ensuring an appropriate programme or project management framework in line with GAIN’s Project Management Process.
• Ultimately responsible for ensuring the high quality and timely delivery of donor reporting (narrative and financial) for all projects, as well as compliance with GAIN’s internal reporting processes.
• Ensure that respective donors’ contractual requirements, and all relevant laws and regulations of NIGERIA, are fully adhered to by the team, by overseeing the development and implementation of appropriate plans to meet requirements.

Financial Management:

• Oversees and ensures effective delivery of programmes in line with budgets.
• Work with the Head of Policy & advocacy and the Head of Operations to coordinate the programmes portfolios’ financial execution and reporting.
• Manage and monitor expenditure against budgets for strategic and annual programmatic plans in adherence to financial guidelines while ensuring value for money.
• Carry out regular budget monitoring and forecasting to ensure spend within the agreed budget parameters.

Resource Mobilisation, Advocacy and Communication:

• Acts as an advocate for private sector engagement in nutrition in Nigeria, on behalf of GAIN.
• Plan, guide and showcase GAIN Nigeria programmatic service delivery, research and achievements.
• Ensure that learning from the programme experiences are well documented and the evidence is used to further inform programming, as well as advocacy and policy and resource mobilization work.
• Engaging with external stakeholders through a positive, proactive and strategic approach to brand building and effective representation of GAIN’s programmatic work in Nigeria.

People Management:

• Line manage a number of direct reports including supporting work plan development and performance management.
• Develop team members in order to maximize their contribution to the team and organization;
• Coach, guide and mentor leaders within programme team and the department so that they are effective as leaders and managers in managing their teams.
• Ensure the recruitment, management and development of high performing team in line with the demands of the programmatic strategy.

Key Organizational Relationships:

• Reports to Nigeria Director, GAIN Nigeria.
• Line management and mentoring of GAIN Nigeria Project Managers.
• Close collaboration with the Head of Operations, Head of Policy and advocacy, and technical specialists.
• Liaises regularly with GAIN Programme Services Team and Knowledge Leadership teams.
• Government, Donors, NGOs, Private Sector, Academia and others

Job Requirements
Competencies:

• Excellent management, leadership, planning and strategic skills.
• Ability to use initiative, multi-task, and work well under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills, presenting clear and structured arguments with strong interpersonal and negotiation skills, able to able to win donors’ commitment to a common vision and clearly stated goals.
• Excellent people management and leadership skills,
• Ability to work as part of, and lead, a multicultural team.
• Strong skills in developing strategies, conceptualizing programs and demonstrating impact on a large scale.
• Excellent networking, influencing, negotiation and advocacy skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Experience:

• Substantial management experience in leading international/economic development projects in multi-cultural environments working with and through governments, the private sector, civil society, and other partnerships.
• Strong experience in donor reporting, designing, setting up and coordinating, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment systems and processes.
• Experience in building effective personal networks at a senior level, showing track record on successful fundraising with statutory, private and corporate donors.
• Strong people management and leadership experience within a multicultural environment
• Demonstrated in‐depth understanding of program issues and policy work at organizational, national and international levels. Understanding of key trends in international and humanitarian development.
• Broad understanding of the nutrition-food systems nexus, public health and community development.
• Demonstrated success in building and managing multi-disciplinary teams

Education:

• Masters’ degree level preferably in Nutrition, Food Science/Technology, Agriculture, Public Health, or Development

Other Requirements:

• Fluent in written and verbal English.
• Proficiency in local languages highly desirable
• A willingness and ability to travel in-Nigeria and overseas as and when required

What Gain Offers

• Starting salary up to NGN 13,716,145 (a higher starting salary may be available for exceptional candidates)
• Flexible working hours
• Friendly working environment
• Professional development opportunities

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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Job Title: Project Manager, Advancing Nutrition Project – Workforce Nutrition

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Classification: D4 Project Manager
Direct reports: 1 – 5
Travel required: Up to 40%

Overall Purpose

• The GAIN Advancing Nutrition in Staple Crop Value Chains in Nigeria project proposes a set of nutrition-sensitive interventions to support the BMZ/GIZ Green Innovation Centre (GIC) in Nigeria to strengthen businesses and the value chains of cassava, maize, potato and rice through targeted business support activities, workforce nutrition interventions and increased production and use of biofortified crops. GAIN proposes to deliver an integrated suite of activities to support the GIC in Nigeria to strengthen their priority value chains and improve food and nutrition security through improved diets for farmers, farm workers, other workers in businesses in these value chains, and among the wider population in Nigeria.
• GAIN’s Workforce Nutrition (WFN) project under the Advancing Nutrition in Staple Crop Value Chains in Nigeria aims to develop an effective and efficient set of nutrition interventions for workers, which businesses in agricultural and industrial supply chains can implement. The nutrition approach will fit with core business, leveraging existing training structures and business communications, and offering a sustainable mechanism to provide ongoing nutrition programming. The programme design will provide businesses a win-win through improving the health and loyalty of their employees and supply chain actors.
• The post holder will support the Senior Project Manager, Supply Chains and will be directly responsible for the design and implementation of this component of the project. The post-holder will be expected to develop strong relationships with relevant partners, exploiting synergies within GAIN and with external stakeholders to ensure continued, effective project delivery. They will be responsible for influencing, providing leadership and reconciling stakeholders’ interests in the project ensuring that the agreed project activities are implemented within project timelines.

Tasks and Responsibilities
Project management and oversight:

• Deliver project management in accordance with the GAIN guidelines.
• Develop nutrition sensitive training and Social Behavior Change communication materials and implement throughout the project cycle.
• Support the Senior Project manager to manage the development of nutrition sensitive workplans and budgets and track progress, including direct provision of regular updates to the Workstream global leads, funders, and country team leadership.
• Provide technical oversight to the implementation of activities that strengthen businesses and advance nutrition in target crop value chains.
• Work with GAIN’s leadership to provide effective monitoring and tracking activities, outputs, outcomes and impact and
• Provide mediation to resolve any project implementation issues including differences between stakeholder and internal groups.

Knowledge management:

• Ensure project outputs are well informed and up to date by keeping an eye on the relevant literature to ensure that the project remains fully informed by advances in the field.
• Maintain a reference document repository.
• Maintain high level liaison with government stakeholders and other organizations working on complementary projects in the country context to share knowledge and best practice.
• Plan and lead the creation of communications materials and capture lessons learned with support from the Communications Lead.
• Take part in and lead webinar presentations etc. to share GAIN’s experience.

Donor relations:

• Prepare and be accountable for periodic donor reports and support global collation of wider programme reports and updates.
• Support the identification of new funding opportunities to fund the project as part of a long-term strategy.
• Support resource mobilisation efforts for GAIN Nigeria programme, based on the business plan and wider strategic objectives.

Gender focus:

• Ensure the initiative is gender-sensitive, and where feasible, gender-transformative working through project design and implementation to continuously strengthen gender focus.
• Keep track of gender results, ensure the initiative is gender-sensitive, and where feasible, gender-transformative
• Synthesize and disseminate knowledge and evidence from GAIN Nigeria programmes that can help drive the agenda for nutritious and safe food in Nigeria.

People management:

• Support the recruitment of key staff (direct reports) and motivate team members to attain project goals, adhere to their responsibilities and project milestones.
• Monitor staff performance and complete performance reviews.

Key organizational relationships:

• Reports to the Senior Project Manager, Supply Chains
• Close working with the colleagues working on the EatSafe Project, Marketplace for Nutritious Foods, Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F), Commercialisation of Biofortified Crops (CBC), and the SUN Business Network (SBN)
• Regular engagements with global Workstream Leads and colleagues in other GAIN Country Offices delivering similar projects.
• External partners including government, complimenting organizations and donors.
• Line manages 1-5 direct reports.
• Close collaboration with the project teams in GAIN Nigeria
• Other Nigeria Country Office staff

Job Requirements
Education:

• Minimum degree level qualification related to Food Science, Nutrition, Health, Agriculture, Business Management or suitable equivalent
• Master’s level qualifications in the above or similarly relevant field of study/expertise highly preferred

Other requirements:

• Excellent communication and command of English (written and spoken)
• Project management qualification desired
• Ability/fluency in one or more of the major Nigerian languages an asset

Competencies:

• Strong project management skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to present sometimes complex information to a diverse audience
• Ability to build relationships and influence at a high level
• Able to work effectively within a multi-cultural, matrix-style organization
• Analytical skills, able to review data and present meaningful reports
• Able to effectively prioritize and multi-task, often working under pressure to achieve deadlines
• Computer literate, with the ability to use MS Office Suite and other bespoke systems to support effective delivery

Experience:

• Proven experience in Social Behavior Change Communication research and implementation in food and agricultural value chains.
• Experience of working with government, business, civil society, and donor organizations/stakeholders at national and international levels
• Experience of working with government at municipal, and state levels.
• Experience or deep understanding of the private sector especially MSMEs
• Understanding and some experience/technical knowledge of health systems
• Track record of success in building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in stimulating demand for food and agricultural commodities through social marketing.

What Gain Offers

• Flexible working hours
• Friendly working environment
• Professional development opportunities

Salary

• Starting salary NGN 7,012,999 – 8,004,527 per annum (depending on experience). More may be available for exceptional candidates.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.

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