Associate, Children and Young People at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Found in: beBee S KE - 3 weeks ago


Nairobi, Kenya Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) Full time

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an international organization driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition.
About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking an Associate, Children and Young People to provide technical and administrative support to project activities under the Children and Young People theme particularly those targeted at children under 10 years old and in support of GAIN’s infant foods and school feeding initiatives in the African region. This role will be offered on a two(2) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in either Abuja, Nigeria or Nairobi, Kenya.

The Associate will support the development and implementation of GAIN’s strategy focusing on the African regional infant foods domestic market, as well supporting to coordinate GAIN’s school feeding and youth employment activities. They will be involved in core project activities as well as providing a range of support services, including communications, stakeholder management, preparation and delivery of training, preparation of reports and briefs, maintaining project documentation, to ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards and within agreed scope, in line with GAINs Project Management Guidelines.

The Associate, Children and Young People also undertakes various administrative tasks, organizing, coordinating, scheduling, and attending meetings with team members, stakeholders, service providers and partners.
Key Responsibilities include

Provide technical and administrative support to programme and country teams implementing programmatic activities related to infant foods, liaising with other GAIN departments.
Support the internal school feeding community of practice (COP), helping to shape COP agenda, setting up and documenting meetings and activities.
Participate in the development of GAIN’s strategy on youth employment under the leadership of the Programme Lead.
Contribute to building internal and external awareness of GAIN’s food systems for children work (including dissemination of project activities and findings, communications assets, working papers and other publications on GAIN’s work) as required, technical groups and seminars / conferences.
In close collaboration with the procurement function support the administrative aspects of the project procurement process.

About you

The ideal candidate should have experience providing technical and administrative support to programme and country teams implementing programmatic activities related to infant foods. Previous experience working in private sector with SMEs or SME support organisations, school feeding projects coupled with an understanding of food systems or agriculture, infant and children’s nutrition is preferred.
You should have experience delivering trainings, preparation of reports and briefs, maintaining project documentation in addition to supporting core project activities such as stakeholder management and communication. This role will provide project procurement administrative support in collaboration with the country office procurement focal persons.
An education background with a degree in Food Technology, Food Science, Business Administration, Public Policy, or related field is required


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