Project Officer, Behavior Change Unit – RFSA

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project Officer, Behavior Change Unit -RFSA to support the coordination of the RFSA project activities. This role will be offered on a permanent basis, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Quelimane, Mozambique.

Save the Children and its partners, Associação Nacional de Extensão Rural (AENA), Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Rede Homens pela Mudança (HOPEM), Kukumbi, and PCI Media launched the USAID/BHA Okhokelamo ni Solha Resilience Food Security Activity(RFSA) on October 1, 2022. The 5-year program seeks to sustainably improve nutrition outcomes for children under 2 years of age (CU2) in Zambezia. The program will take a life-stages approach to strengthen the skills, capacity, agency, resilience, and confidence of women and adolescent girls, while also engaging adolescent boys, husbands, fathers, and the community at large for collective action to achieve this goal. Okhokelamo ni Solha plans to reach 1,157,575 participants (members of vulnerable and very vulnerable households) in six districts of Zambezia Province. The overall goal of Okhokelamo ni Solha will be achieved through the following objectives:

Objective 1: Sustainably improve women’s nutrition including in the face of shocks.

Objective 2: Improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF)

Objective 3: Reduce early pregnancy and improve nutrition among adolescent girls.

Gain will take two interventions tested and implemented in Nampula province (Jogos Heroinas and Academia Wapea) which will be adapted to the context of Zambezia province.

The Project Officer will support in core project activities and provide a range of support services, including preparation of reports and briefs, coordinating resources, maintaining project documentation, and implementing and monitoring project plans, to ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards and within agreed scope, in line with GAINs Project Management Guidelines.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Under the guidance of the project manager, coordinate and schedule project review meetings at regular cycles and prepare documentation of findings and recommendations.
• Participate in the organization and delivery of training sessions (Jogo das Heroínas and Academia Wapea) for relevant target audiences, including facilitating the delivery of training of trainers’ sessions (TOT).
• Facilitating and supervising Jogo das Heroínas and Academia Wapea sessions (including follow-up sessions).
• Overseeing data collection related to implemented activities and preparing activity progress reports (monthly, quarterly, and annually)
• Under the supervision of the project manager , conduct regular field monitoring visits of the activities conducted under the project by partners. Follow up with partners to ensure timely submission of reports and prepare timely monitoring reports with findings and recommendations.
• Oversee all administrative aspects of the procurement process including budgeting, procurement supporting with the drafting of agreements and contracts and logistical arrangements within ethical and procurement standards and guidelines.

About you

You should have experience in project management through tracking of activities and progress of deliverables in a project setting. Possess great interpersonal skills and ability to facilitate training sessions across different audiences and stakeholder management experience. Data collection and preparation of project reports are key to succeeding in this role.

The position holder will be responsible for updating the project management system and ensure accurate documentation and work closely with external suppliers and professional services to facilitate effective delivery of work. They will be responsible for overseeing all administrative aspects of the project procurement tasks from supporting with drafting agreements for contracts and logistical arrangements within ethical and procurement standards and guidelines.

An education background with a bachelor’s degree in business management, international relations, sustainable development, economics, development studies, peace and conflict studies or related field is required. Accreditation in a project management is desirable.

About our Offer

The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from USD 22,728 – USD 26,004 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 10 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 30th April 2024. 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.