Key Responsibilities include

Supporting in the development and maintenance of project plans and ensuring tasks are completed in a timely manner
Working closely with the Project coordinator in supporting project communications, information flow and in the preparation of progress reports
Supporting the team in organising and planning stakeholder meetings 
Providing administrative support and... team support in the coordination of logistics for meetings, workshops and events

About you

The ideal candidate will have experience working in an administrative or coordinator role in a project management capacity e.g., in group work at university. In addition, you will have experience in engaging people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
You will be fluent in written and spoken English. Candidates with working knowledge of additional languages and who is comfortable working in a fast-paced dynamic, international organisation would be an advantage. The ideal candidate will possess strong research and analytical skills.
A Bachelors’ degree in public health, nutrition, project management or related fields. You will be computer literate and have some basic knowledge of project management principles. more

About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Programme Intern, Policy to support the ongoing program works in GAIN Kenya office. This position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya office and is offered on a 6 months fixed-term contract basis.
Reporting to the Head of Policy and Advocacy, the intern will support the ongoing program work in all GAIN Kenya programmes.... You will actively support the smooth running of project operations and in collaboration with the programme team and other teams in the Kenya office.
Key Responsibilities include

Supporting in the development and maintenance of project plans and ensuring tasks are completed in a timely manner
Working closely with the Project coordinator in supporting project communications, information flow and in the preparation of progress reports
Supporting the team in organising and planning stakeholder meetings 
Providing administrative support and team support in the coordination of logistics for meetings, workshops and events

About you

The ideal candidate will have experience working in an administrative or coordinator role in a project management capacity e.g., in group work at university. In addition, you will have experience in engaging people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
You will be fluent in written and spoken English. Candidates with working knowledge of additional languages and who is comfortable working in a fast-paced dynamic, international organisation would be an advantage. The ideal candidate will possess strong research and analytical skills.
A Bachelors’ degree in public health, nutrition, project management or related fields. You will be computer literate and have some basic knowledge of project management principles. more

About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking an Intern, Monitoring and Evaluation / Data Analysis to provide monitoring and data analysis support in GAIN Kenya programmes. This position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya office and is offered on a 6 months fixed-term contract basis.
Reporting to the Senior Monitoring Associate, the intern will provide monitoring and... data analysis support to the Kenya team to implement the monitoring framework of Kenya Programmes.
Key Responsibilities include

Supporting data analysis for various projects, designing of data collection tools in survey CTO and data visualization in Tableau
Supporting GAIN country and Knowledge & Leadership (KL) team and other partners to develop and review results/logical frameworks and monitoring plans
Supporting quality assurance and data collection of routine monitoring data from implementing partners and government to track progress of program activities towards objectives
Visiting field as required to ensure that programme progress against monitoring indicators is on track
Reviewing, analysing data and supporting preparation of reports on monitoring indicators
Contributing to analysis of information collected and supporting all dissemination efforts including writing reports, briefs and other materials
Providing support for research studies and/or evaluations as assigned by the supervisors

About you

The ideal candidate will be fluent in written and spoken English. Candidates with working knowledge of additional languages and who is willing and able to work in a multi-cultural, would be an advantage. You will be highly flexible and willing and able to travel occasionally in country.
A Bachelors’ degree in statistics, public health or related fields. You will be computer literate and proactive with a commitment to quality and accuracy with close attention to detail. more

About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Senior Associate - Environment to provide technical support on environmental aspects of Nourishing Food Pathways programme. This role will be offered on a two(2) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Senior Associate, Environment will work closely with our... project teams to ensure screening for their environmental impact using the GAIN Environment Screening Tool, supporting teams to identify and mitigate risks, as well as pursuing potential co-benefits. The position will also build and maintain partnerships with actors in this space and create awareness of successful approaches towards desired environmental impact.
Key Responsibilities include

Develop and oversee a programme of capacity building activities to upskill the organisation and enhance organisational understanding of critical topics across environment and nutrition with the support of the Lead, Environment and Nutrition.
Lead work across GAIN countries and programmes to screen projects for their environmental impact using the GAIN Environment Screening Tool, supporting teams to identify and mitigate risks, as well as pursuing potential co-benefits.
Work closely with to engage senior management on GAIN’s Environment work and manage stakeholders at SMT and Board level.
In collaboration with Lead, Environment and Nutrition actively contribute to identify new funding opportunities and develop new proposals integrating nutrition and environment.
Maintain existing partnerships with other organisations in this space and contribute to develop new ones, including proactive sharing of GAIN’s work to green our programmes to enable others to adapt and adopt successful approaches piloted through our projects.
Develop communications materials (blogs, articles, videos, social media posts) to drive awareness and engagement with the linkages between nutrition and climate, and the solutions to joint challenges.

About you

The ideal candidate should have experience providing technical guidance on environmental impact of projects and working closely with relevant stakeholders to ensure actions that mitigate risks or boost co-benefits are implemented. Experience with Food Systems is critical to succeed in this role.  Demonstrated experience with environmental reporting tools, management standards and targets (e.g. net zero, ISO 14001) highly preferred. You should be able to collaborate and provide support to multiple projects.
The candidate should be skilled in maintaining partnerships within the environmental space where they drive awareness and linkages between nutrition and climate actors.  A track record in project management delivering quality project outcomes on time, and within allocated budget is required. You should be able to collect data and report findings to senior leadership.
The post holder should have experience in training project teams/group facilitation to ensure effective stakeholder participation and consensus building. An educational background with a Masters’ degree level in environmental science or a related field is required, or equivalent work experience. more

About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Financial Systems Associate to support our processes for financial planning and reporting, in ensuring that our financial systems are well maintained and maintain their integrity. This role will be offered on a permanent basis, subject to availability of funding and is open to the following locations: Nairobi, Kenya or... Maputo, Mozambique.
The Financial Systems Associate will play a major role in the implementation and development of GAIN’s financial systems, in supporting our processes for financial planning and reporting, in ensuring that our financial systems are well maintained and maintain their integrity, and in providing training to colleagues across the organisation in the use of our financial systems.
Key Responsibilities include

Liaise with service providers on assigned projects to ensure they are progressing on schedule and in accordance with set deliverables.
Liaise with managers and staff from IS/IT and other teams to ensure the effective integration of GAIN’s financial data with other business systems, to facilitate planning and reporting, automate data collection, and ensure the integrity of data.
Support the quarterly forecast by preparing templates, consolidating forecast inputs and making available relevant system(s). Assist in troubleshooting forecast queries to finalize forecast.
Support the monthly accounting process by preparing and uploading timesheets and staff costs data to financial systems and sharing reports and data with other members of the Finance team.
Contribute to developing training materials, for example presentation slide decks and online videos.
Participating in training workshops, facilitating the events and leading sessions where required.
Delivering inductions for new staff members.
Test and troubleshoot GAIN's financial systems to identify and resolve areas for improvement.

About you

The ideal candidate should have a strong IT background in deploying and implementing new systems. Experience with Financial systems highly preferred. The position holder should be able provide end user support and technical troubleshooting of systems at GAIN. This position will be required to ensure the effective integration of GAIN’s financial data with other business systems, to facilitate planning and reporting, automate data collection, and ensure the integrity of data.
This will be a highly interpersonal role expected to work closely with all stakeholders across the organization and thus strong stakeholder engagement skills are required. more

About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project Coordinator, Food Culture Alliance & Consumer Demand to establish a new alliance and coordinate across relevant pillars, with a special focus on ‘Strengthening Collaboration’ and ‘Enabling Action’. This role will be offered on a three(3) year fixed term contract, subject to availabilty of funding and will be... based in Nairobi, Kenya.
In 2021, GAIN and its partners launched a new alliance Food Culture Alliance(FCA), where society’s preference is for nutritious and sustainable foods. The mission of the Food Culture Alliance is to champion food culture and leverage the toolbox of strategies it provides to shift preferences and increase society’s demand for nutritious and sustainable foods. Food culture requires concerted, cross sector efforts that are aligned towards that shared goal, hence the need to form an alliance.
The Food Culture Alliance is setting up both a global and a country-based structure which are expected to work closely together to ensure a cohesive workplan and strategic focus. At the global level, there is the Global Food Culture Alliance, and it is led by 3 international organisations who comprise the Lead Group:  EAT, Global Business School Network (GBSN), and Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), which hosts the alliance. World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), and Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) are members of the Business Advisory Group that advises the Lead Group as representatives of business sector.
GAIN has recently launched the Nourishing Food Pathways (NFP) programme. One key component of this programme is a project to identify ways of extending the Consumer Demand Generation approach developed by GAIN to include environmental sustainability of diets and foods. Kenya is one of three countries where this project is being implemented.
At the country level, new alliances will be developed in line with the Food Culture Alliance 3-pillar operating model. In countries the operating model will:

Building Knowledge – support research and learning, apply the strategic framework to address food culture.
Strengthening Collaboration – develop and coordinate a local alliance to achieve a shared understanding of the need to shift society-wide preferences and commit to coordinated action in the food culture to achieve that aim.​ Open local membership to actors interested in DGA’s work.
Enabling Action - deepen in-country engagements, identify a preference issue, nurture a coalition, support local fundraising efforts.

The postholder will be expected to establish a new alliance in Kenya and coordinate across all three pillars, but with a special focus on ‘Strengthen Collaboration’ and ‘Enable Action’. The overall purpose is twofold:

To ensure that the local Food Culture Alliance is a well-functioning ecosystem of connected actors engaged with food culture issues.
To nurture a coalition that emerges from the local alliance. This person is the main country contact point for all matters related to the Food Culture Alliance. This is expected to be 70% of the role.

The other 30% is focused on project managing the work where GAIN is identifying ways to extend its consumer demand generation approach to promote diets & foods that are both nutritious and environmentally more sustainable.
Key Responsibilities include

Develop, and coordinate effective stakeholder relationships to secure support for, and good collaboration, on food culture.
In close coordination with Global Food Culture Alliance, implement the country workplan, as work packages, to ensure that deliverables are met and integrating of the local activities with the overarching global FCA plan.
Coordinate and facilitate local management meetings.
Manage the alliance membership database.
Support the reviewing/editing concept notes.
Organize events in coordination with service providers, partners or members while ensuring delivery of the learning and socialization activities (e.g., trainings, webinars, events).
Manage day to day execution of research projects under supervision of global Knowledge Leadership lead for the project.
Manage creative agency relationship under the supervision of global demand lead for the project.
Contribute to the interpretation of research and creative brief development and input into the monitoring, learning, evaluation of Food Culture Alliance(FCA).
Develop written summaries of local activities to support donor reporting.

About you

The ideal candidate should be highly experienced in stakeholder engagement and able to rally relevant actors within the alliance to strengthen collaboration and enable action. Previous experience coordinating an alliance is highly preferred.
You should demonstrate ability to understand technical literature in nutrition or food culture and support management of research projects. Experience managing creative agency relationships would be highly desirable.
You should demonstrate experience communicating health or science information to diverse audiences. Excellent organizational skills and follow-through is necessary to succeed in this role, combined with the ability to translate technical documents for more general audiences.
The ideal candidate should be able to develop written summaries of local activities to support donor reporting.
The post holder should have an educational background with a degree in either Sociology/Anthropology, Political Science, Health or Science Communication or relevant field. A diploma or post graduate degree in a specialist competency area is desirable. more

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Programme Intern (Demand Creation) to support the ongoing demand creation activities in all GAIN Kenya programmes. This position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya office and is offered on a 6 months fixed-term contract basis.
Reporting to the Marketing Advisor, the intern will support the smooth running of the project... operations and in collaboration with the team facilitate effective communication between programmes and other teams in the Kenya office.

Key Responsibilities include:

Supporting in the procurement process for the demand creation/marketing component including following up on the request for proposal, proposal evaluation, contracting, and payment processing
Supporting in the preparation of project summaries and any materials for external engagement
With support from Associate, Demand Creation and GAIN Communication teams, supporting in facilitating the development of communication materials, social marketing, and communication campaigns in collaboration with partners.
Providing administrative support for demand creation related activities.
In collaboration with the team support in the coordination of logistics for meetings, workshops and events

About you

The ideal candidate will have experience working in an administrative or coordinator role in a project management capacity e.g., in group work at university. In addition, you will have experience in engaging people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
You will be fluent in written and spoken English. Candidates with knowledge of additional languages would be an advantage. The ideal candidate will possess strong research and analytical skills.
A bachelor’s degree in business management (Sales and Marketing), Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing option) or related fields. You will be computer literate and with proficiency in office systems. more

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Programme Intern to support ongoing work in all GAIN Kenya programmes. This position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya office and is offered on a 6 months fixed-term contract basis.
Reporting to the Head of Programmes, the intern will support the ongoing program work in all GAIN Kenya programmes. You will actively... support the smooth running of project operations and in collaboration with the programme team and other teams in the Kenya office.

Key Responsibilities include:

Supporting in the development and maintenance of project plans and ensuring tasks are completed in a timely manner
Working closely with the Project coordinator in supporting project communications, information flow and in the preparation of progress reports
Supporting the team in organising and planning stakeholder meetings
Providing administrative support and team support in the coordination of logistics for meetings, workshops and events

About you

The ideal candidate will have experience working in an administrative or coordinator role in a project management capacity e.g., in group work at university. In addition, you will have experience in engaging people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
You will be fluent in written and spoken English. Candidates with working knowledge of additional languages and who is comfortable working in a fast-paced dynamic, international organisation would be an advantage. The ideal candidate will possess strong research and analytical skills.
A Bachelors’ degree in public health, nutrition, project management or related fields. You will be computer literate and have some basic knowledge of project management principles. more

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Lead, CASCADE to manage GAIN’s engagement with our CASCADE partner organisations. This role 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 and Addis Ababa.
Reporting to the Head of GAIN Netherland, you will provide... management and leadership of CASCADE implementation activities and coordinate the on-time, on-budget and with quality delivery of GAIN’s role in ‘Catalyzing Strengthened Policy Action for Healthy Diets and Resilience (CASCADE)’ across Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria and Uganda.
The postholder will bring excellent portfolio management skills to the relationship between GAIN, CARE Nederland, CARE International and our other partners, and take a lead role within GAIN in supporting the alignment, exchange and learning within and between both portfolios (CASCADE and GAIN’s market-based programme). In addition, the Programme Lead will manage GAIN’s engagement with our CASCADE partner organisations, CARE Nederland and CARE International.

Key Responsibilities include

Co-leading with our partners for the development of annual budgets and detailed workplans for all six geographies
Working with GAIN country program managers to develop and follow up on their work plans to ensure we deliver on budget, on time and with quality
Providing guidance on project implementation to GAIN countries and technical know-how to design and deliver strategically relevant, sound, and feasible project interventions
Working in close collaboration with the CASCADE coordinator (CARE Nederland) to facilitate interactions between all consortium parties to contribute to the programme objective, serving as a member of the consortium project management unit and supporting operation of other governance functions as appropriate
Working in close collaboration with GAIN’s Programme Services Team, including SUN Business Network team, and our partner’s technical specialists to ensure the Country Teams obtain the support they need to design and implement their projects
Working closely with GAIN’s Knowledge Leadership team and monitoring expert, as well as our partner’s monitoring and evaluation teams to ensure monitoring and tracking targets, evaluation and learning takes place within CASCADE’s activities
Working with country teams to ensure completion of timely donor and internal reporting (interim and final reports, periodic progress reports, annual plans)
Working closely with GAIN colleagues at the Development Office and based in The Netherlands supporting the relationship with the donor and CARE Nederland in determining internal reporting deadlines, templates and governance structures
Supporting knowledge management and learning, alongside CASCADE MEAL team, CARE, GAIN’s Knowledge Leadership, Communications and Country programmes teams, as well as with GAIN’s partners
Coordinating with leadership of GAIN’s other Dutch funded programme to ensure complementarity and where relevant cooperation, including combined events, evaluation and cross-learning

About You

The ideal candidate should have substantial level of professional experience directly or indirectly relating to food and nutrition, supply chains and international development. You should have demonstrable success in managing multi-country and multi-partner consortium projects. Candidate with experience working at both global and African country levels is preferred.
The postholder should have ability to operate within the private and public sectors to effectively liaise with food enterprises, development agencies, and governments at senior level. Also, you should have good understanding of policy engagement and advocacy at national level and possess excellent representational, strategic, and diplomatic abilities to represent GAIN and our partners accordingly.
Candidate will have strong communication skills, proficiency in written and verbal English and able to work in multi-cultural and multi-lingual environments. You should be highly flexible and able and willing to travel frequently across Africa and Europe as required.
Postgraduate Degree in business, food and nutrition, development studies, economics, agricultural development or related field. The ideal candidate will possess project coordination, management, negotiation, and advocacy skills and demonstrated excellence in written/verbal communications, research, writing and analytical ability. more

About the Role

The manager will lead the implementation of GAIN’s N3F Technical Assistance (TA) offerings, by overseeing and assessing the TA needs of SMEs, matching them with service providers, and implementing activities to ensure the quality of services provided.
They will coordinate closely with the fund manager of N3F, Incofin, on pipeline development, joint site visits for due diligence... by the Investment Manager and TA needs assessments by the N3F TA team, as well as data collected for the development of nutrition profiles for SMEs together with the MEL Specialist, so that the SMEs fit the N3F Fund financial and nutrition criteria.
The manager will also contribute to the financing engagement work of N3F, to improve awareness, capacity, commitment among investors of nutrition as an investment theme.

Key Responsibilities include:

Oversee and design technical assistance support packages tailored to individual SMEs and group training according to common needs in the portfolio in Francophone Africa.
Identify technical assessment needs of SMEs operating in the food value chain that are potential pipeline for the N3F Fund, working together with the investment officers at our partner asset manager Incofin Investment Management.
Provide strategic and technical leadership in the design, planning and implementation of the project as per the GAIN Project Management Guidelines (PMG).
Define project scope, activities and objectives in line with the GAIN business plans, programme frameworks, and organizational strategic priorities.
Identify, track and resolve project issues on an ongoing basis, and proactively seek support where issues require wider attention and resolution.
Ensure that implementation of project activities is in line with the policies and best practice standards of GAIN.
Represent GAIN at national and regional technical meetings, tradeshows and workshops and contribute to identifying SMEs that fit the N3F criteria across Anglophone and Francophone Africa, sharing them with Incofin, N3F Fund Manager
Lead on matchmaking activities between TA requirements and service providers, manage engagements between GAIN, service providers, and our beneficiaries.

About you

The ideal candidate should have advanced expertise directly or indirectly related to impact investing, development finance and/or grant-making and TA support to SMEs across Anglophone and Francophone Africa. You should have substantive experience directly or indirectly related to food supply chains and working with SMEs.
The post holder should have experience leading matchmaking activities between TA requirements and service providers, manage engagements between the organization, service providers, and our beneficiaries. You should be able to identify relevant events to influence and raise awareness of nutrition investing outside of the food systems community.
The position holder should be deep understanding of what makes an SME scale their operations, grow, and succeed and a demonstrated expertise in the assessment of needs and provision of technical assistance (TA) to SMEs, and more specifically to nutrition focused SMEs. An educational background with a master’s level degree in a relevant field such as business administration, economics, agribusiness, agricultural economics, or bachelor’s degree with requisite years of experience in a relevant field. more