Project Manager, Advancing Nutrition Project – Workforce Nutrition – GAIN

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Full Time
  • Post Date: February 25, 2021
  • Jobs by States: Abuja FCT
  • Career Level: Not applicable
  • Experience: 5 - 9 Years
  • Gender: Both
  • Industry: Food Services
  • Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
Job Description
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The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking Project Manager, Advancing Nutrition Project – Workforce Nutrition to support the delivery of the project and ensure project activities are implemented within corresponding timelines.

This role is Abuja, Nigeria and is in relation to a project that is funded for up to 5 years.

About 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. 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.

About the role

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. 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.

Specific responsibilities include:

  • 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.
  • 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
  • Prepare and be accountable for periodic donor reports and support global collation of wider programme reports and updates.
  • Ensure the initiative is gender-sensitive, and where feasible, gender-transformative working through project design and implementation to continuously strengthen gender focus.
  • Support the recruitment of key staff (direct reports) and motivate team members to attain project goals, adhere to their responsibilities and project milestones.

About you

Candidates for this position should have proven experience in managing projects within an international development setting in Nigeria. In addition ,you will have a strong track record of success in building working relationships stakeholders, government, business, civil society, and donor at national and international levels.

  • Minimum degree level qualification related to food science, nutrition, health, agriculture, business management or suitable equivalent
  • Proven experience in Social Behavior Change Communication research and implementation in food and agricultural value chains.
  • Experience or deep understanding of the private sector especially MSMEs
  • Understanding and some experience/technical knowledge of health systems
  • Previous experience in stimulating demand for food and agricultural commodities through social marketing.

About our offer

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.

For more detailed information please see the attached job description. To apply, follow the “Apply Now” link.

This advert closes on 7th March 2021. 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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