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About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project Coordinator, Workforce Nutrition Strengthening Nutrition in Priority Staples (SNiPS) to the day-to-day operational delivery, implementation, and monitoring of the project, specifically focusing on tracking the progress and status of project activities. This role will be offered on a ten(10) months fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Abuja, Nigeria.
The Strengthening Nutrition in Priority Staples Project (SNIPS) in Nigeria, in partnership with GIZ and the Green Innovation Centre for the Agricultural and Food Sector in Nigeria, is working on four priority value chains – Vitamin A Cassava, Vitamin A Maize, Rice, and Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato – to bring forward innovations with the potential to contribute to smallholder farmers’ livelihoods and sustainable rural development. The project focuses on productivity, incomes, and jobs for smallholder farmers active in the priority value chains. This GAIN investment is an integrated plan to support and strengthen the GIC, adding a nutrition lens to make the intervention more nutrition-sensitive over the next two years in four GIC states, namely Kaduna, Benue, Nasarawa and Oyo states.
The workforce nutrition component will support farmers and workers in these value chains to improve their diets. The Workforce Nutrition (WFN) component aims to reach rice and maize value chain workers (from small holder farmers to processing employees) with workforce nutrition interventions that aim to improve the consumption of nutritious foods as part of a healthy, diverse diet for workers, farmers, and their households. The programme also aims to engage business owners in the supply chain, and local government and state authorities, on the importance of farmer/worker nutrition for greater resilience and productivity. Throughout the programme, GAIN will lead regular advocacy and engagement with business managers, and government officials on the importance of workforce nutrition for both workers and farmers.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Work with stakeholders on the implementation of workforce nutrition pillars (healthy food at work, nutrition education, health checks and breastfeeding support) among organizations and the launch of the Nigeria Workforce Nutrition Alliance.
- Managing the project schedule, activity plan and planning milestones, supporting the tracking of progress and deliverables from project partners and implementing countries
- Coordinating and scheduling project review meetings at regular cycles and preparing documentation of findings and recommendations in the Project Management Tool.
- Facilitate implementation of project activities in compliance with the policies and best practice standards of GAIN.
- Produce detailed reports for stakeholders, summarizing progress, achievements, and insights.
About you
The ideal candidate should have experience in coordination of project activities and ability to influence formulation and implementation of workforce nutrition activities. Experience working with actors in different value chains such as rice and maize to promote consumption of nutritious foods at the workplace and beyond. You should have demonstrable experience advocating and engaging with business managers, and government officials on the importance of workforce nutrition for both workers and farmers.
You should be able to coordinate the day-to-day operational delivery, implementation, and monitoring of the project, specifically focusing on tracking the progress and status of project activities. An education with a bachelor’s degree in human nutrition, Public Health, sustainable development, development studies.
About our Offer
The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from NGN 12,751,056 -NGN 14,550,552 gross per annum, 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 and hybrid 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 12 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 have the right to work and be currently based in the advertised country location, to be eligible to apply for this position.
This advert closes on 28th January 2025. Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is committed to equality of opportunity and creating an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. We are keen to reflect the diversity of our society at every level within our organisation and therefore welcome applications from talented and committed people from all backgrounds, representing the diverse societies we operate in.
How to apply
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Project Coordinator, Workforce Nutrition Strengthening Nutrition in Priority Staples (SNiPS) | GAIN
