Nutrition Advisor

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The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Nutrition Advisor to ensure technical support to GAIN Mozambique’s work in both rural and urban contexts leading the development and documentation of best practices and promote organizational learning. This role will be offered on permanent basis, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Maputo, Mozambique.

About GAIN

GAIN is a Swiss-based foundation that was launched 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 those most vulnerable to malnutrition.

About the role

The overall purpose of the position of Nutrition Advisor is to provide expertise in nutrition to support the quality of GAINs existing and future nutrition specific and sensitive interventions/activities and projects.

The Nutrition Advisor’s prime responsibility is to ensure a high quality of technical support to GAIN Mozambique’s work in both rural and urban development contexts. They will lead the development and documentation of best practices and promote organizational learning.

This position will functionally report to the Country Director, Mozambique with all technical aspects of the work managed by the Director, Knowledge Leadership. The Nutrition Advisor will represent GAIN Mozambique at industry meetings, forum, dissemination events and media events.

Key Responsibilities include.

• Provide guidance and technical support to GAIN’s activities in the form of program/project design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
• Support research and evidence translation efforts, working closely with colleagues from other units in GAIN through the preparation of proposals, reports, presentations, briefs, topic overviews and others as needed.
• Working with the Global KL team, support Country Director and Portfolio Leads as needed, including on resource mobilization and dissemination activities.
• Develop or improve monitoring, learning, research and evaluation frameworks and plans in collaboration with the GAIN KL and Program teams, and implementing partners, and closely monitor program outcomes and key deliverables.
• Lead critical analysis and interpretation of monitoring and research results to formulate recommendations on program actions, improvements, and lessons learned.
• Contribute to the development of research protocols and tools for research, assessment and evaluations that contribute directly to GAIN’s projects and activities, such as: formative research, rapid assessments, qualitative research, implementation research, process evaluation and landscape analysis.
• Act as GAIN’s focal point at MoH led technical working group, requesting and facilitating meetings as needed in order to complete project activities.

About you

The ideal candidate should have experience in delivering nutrition and/or nutrition sensitive programs in developing country settings with broad experience in public health nutrition program monitoring, operations and participatory research, and impact evaluation. Demonstrable experience in developing technical nutrition documents (policies, proposal, working papers, scientific papers, guides, etc).

The post holder should have experience engaging with MoH, donors and other key partners in the nutrition space in addition to providing expert input related to nutrition strategies to Government Policies. In depth knowledge of nutrition and critical analysis skills to evaluate the quality of research results and extract key learning and effective practices from research findings is required.

You should have excellent project management skills, notably developing and implementing workplans while ensuring timely and good-quality routine activity progress monitoring and reporting by implementing partners. You should be able to provide strategic and high-level analytical support in core programme design. The candidate should have an education background in Nutrition or Public Health in addition to related work experience.

About our offer

The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from USD 39,333 – USD 44,974 per annum, depending on experience. Other benefits are as attached below the job description.

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.

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 8th of March 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.