Junior Associate, Food Systems Dashboard

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Junior Associate, Food Systems Dashboard to support the coordination work of the Food Systems Dashboard Program. This position will be on a 2 years’ fixed term contract basis, subject to availability of funding. This position is open to GAIN’s country offices in Nairobi, Delhi and Maputo.

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 Food Systems Dashboard (FSD) program has been developed by GAIN and Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with multiple partners. It is an online tool that combines data from public and private sources intended for policymakers, non-governmental organisations, businesses, civil society leaders, and other actors to enable timely visualisation of national food systems, understand the interconnections across multiple sectors, perform comparisons with other countries, identify key challenges, and prioritise actions. The Dashboard houses over 200 food systems indicators from 35 sources covering more than 230 countries and territories. It will enable stakeholders to compare their food systems with those of other countries and will provide guidance on potential priority actions to improve food systems’ impacts on diets and nutrition.

Reporting to the Food Systems Dashboard Coordinator, you will support the coordination of project team members to achieve project objectives and to facilitate communication and assist with administrative duties.

You will support the Food Systems Dashboard Coordinator in advancing GAINs efforts to increase the accessibility and uptake of the Food Systems Dashboard at global and national levels. This position will also support the Knowledge Leadership team to strengthen performance measurement and reporting efforts.

Key Responsibilities include;

• Providing financial administration support such as raising purchase orders and processing payments and monitoring expenditure
• Planning, organising and coordinating meetings and calls; arranging communications and taking minutes of meetings where necessary
• Responsible for project logistics and organisation of field trips/general travel, events, meetings/workshops and trainings that are linked to advocacy and awareness raising activities
• Supporting the development and dissemination of advocacy-communications activities and materials
• Ensuring Dashboard project management activities are executed within agreed timeline, deliverables are submitted on time and supporting the establishment and maintenance of a range of basic databases and filing system for the Food System Dashboard
• Supporting on the collection of data for institutional performance reporting, and the administrative preparation of presentations

About You

The ideal candidate should have financial and project administrative experience and general knowledge in data analysis, monitoring and evaluation. Candidates with an understanding of food systems and/or nutrition is desirable.

You should have excellent communication (written and verbal), writing and presentation skills and be willing to work in multicultural and multilingual environments.

The postholder should have Bachelors’ degree in international relations, public health, development studies, nutrition, agriculture or related fields. You should be IT literate, with excellent MS Office skills, and experience with data analysis software such as Stata and Salesforce is a plus.

About our Offer

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

1. Mozambique: From USD 14,894 – USD 17,037 per annum
2. India: From INR 615,012 – INR 702,876 per annum
3. Kenya: From KES 1,616,220 – KES 1,848,828 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 21st November 2022. 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.