Gender Advisor – Global

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Gender Advisor – Global to lead on the development and integration of impact monitoring tools, standards and mechanisms for GAIN’s mainstreaming gender activity across our global portfolio of programme work.

This position will be on a 2 years’ fixed term contract basis, subject to availability of funding and is open to GAIN’s country offices in New Delhi and London.

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

Reporting to the Senior Technical Specialist, Gender Lead, the postholder will drive the implementation of practical tools and standards for considering gender throughout the project lifecycle across our Africa and Asia programme offices. This will include employing a monitoring system to facilitate the substantive integration of gender into activities and evaluating and tracking impact.

The postholder will advise staff on the application of these tools across GAIN’s programme areas and will support advocacy initiatives to improve the enabling environment around gender.

Key Responsibilities include;

• Developing key tools, standards, and mechanisms for integrating gender considerations into projects, including establishing tools and standards for budgeting, monitoring and the identification of standard outcomes and impact indicators
• Advising on fundraising opportunities and integrating gender into proposals working closely with the Senior Leadership team and Development Office
• Working closely with project teams to ensure the usefulness and practicality of the tools and mechanisms throughout the project lifecycle
• Developing and employing a monitoring system for gender at institutional and project levels, in collaboration with Programme Monitoring and Improvement Lead and reporting regularly to staff and the board
• Updating the gender strategy and advising on other relevant strategies as needed
• Based on existing context-specific evidence, consulting with project teams to provide tailored technical advice on how to incorporate gender considerations into results tracking and evaluations
• Periodically assessing progress on gender mainstreaming and advising Senior Leadership Team to course correct when necessary
• Identifying and leading opportunities to generate and disseminate global public goods (e.g., tools, publications, and papers in GAIN paper series, among others)
• Advising on integrating gender into policy and external relations outreach, and supporting advocacy initiatives to improve the enabling environment around gender
• Representing GAIN in global fora and communicating with external audiences, as well as building strategic relationships with regional partners including policymakers and NGOs.

About You

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in gender equitable programming in Low- and Middle-Income countries within nutrition, food security, policy, advocacy and/or related programme areas, providing technical support, research, or evaluation (ideally within the international development, civil society, NGO sector).

You will have demonstrable experience of integrating new concepts and working with project / programme staff and multi-disciplinary teams at varying levels with an in‐depth understanding of programme issues and advocacy work at organizational, national and international levels.

In addition to this, you will posess excellent M&E and data analysis skills, with an understanding of measuring and monitoring gender equitable outcomes, women’s empowerment/agency, and related topics in projects alongside an excellent understanding of nutrition and food systems concepts and measurement/monitoring.

Excellent communication (written and verbal) alongside exceptional public speaking skills will be essential to this role, with the ability to communicate technical content to multi-disciplinary teams with varying levels of technical knowledge.

Candidates should have an excellent command of written and spoken English, and fluency in French or Portuguese or knowledge of second language is an additional asset.

A Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Economics, Nutrition, Sociology, Development, or related field is desirable. Candidates are expected to be highly flexible and be willing to travel occasionally.

About our Offer

The starting salary for each office is as follows, depending on experience:

1. India: From INR 1,699,368 – INR 1,944,456 (gross) per annum
2. United Kingdom: From GBP 47,438 – GBP 50,844 (gross) per annum

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.

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.

This advert closes on 16th February 2023. 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.