Head of Policy and Advocacy, April 2024

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Policy and Advocacy

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Classification: C6 – Head of Department
Direct Reports: 1 – 5
Travel Required: Up to 30%

Details

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.
The Food Systems Summit will be held in September/October 2021, it is hosted by the UN Secretary General and involving all UN member states. It has a declared focus on system change addressing interconnected challenges: environmental sustainability, planetary boundary limits especially climate change, and increasing inequalities around access to food security and healthy diets. The FSS also takes place in a year which will see the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in December 2021 in which GAIN is actively involved, and which has a specific focus on nutrition commitment within food systems.

Overall Purpose

A critical component of the Food Systems Summit will be national planning processes to develop coherent plans. One component of the FSS strategy is a set of food systems dialogues hosted by every member state to this end.
The Head of Policy and Advocacy will be responsible for ensuring that the interventions led by GAIN and by its different partners are coordinated so that overall project and policy milestones and goals are met. They will be expected to provide technical support to project staff as required.
The inclusion of nutritious and safe foods as a major theme is well aligned with GAIN’s strategy to make nutritious foods more affordable and accessible for all. The FSS is therefore a major opportunity to advance our strategy and merits a special effort to link and align many aspects of our programmes, learning and influencing. Country level participation, through the influencing work led by the Country Director and the Head of Policy and Advocacy is the key to its success.
The postholder lead GAIN Nigeria’s wider influencing agenda and support country office management and leadership as part of the Senior Management Team

Tasks and Responsibilities
Lead GAIN’s policy work in country and carry out the following tasks:

Food Systems Summit:

Tracking and mapping national preparations for the Food Systems Summit, and the N4G Summit
Act as a technical and organisational resource to facilitate and support national food systems dialogue/s and other planning mechanisms to develop a national food action plan and/or plans and commitments made at the Summits
Engage in, and where appropriate, contribute and facilitate the preparations for the national commitments
Facilitate GAIN expertise derived from its national programmes and its global expertise into national consultation and planning see [www.gainhealth.org].
Be the principal country link to the cross-GAIN working group on the Summit
Lead on internal communication to educate and inform fellow GAIN colleagues on the objectives of the summit and each GAIN staff member can contribute.
Integrate and align the Food Systems Summit policy and advocacy work into GAIN’s national business plan.

Influencing Agenda:

Monitor, attend and engage to represent GAIN, where appropriate, in key national-level and country-level policy fora and meetings.
Lead on external engagement with key stakeholders in government, private sector, UN, donors and civil
society including academia, media, and other development practitioners; to improve support for GAIN’s mission and increase resources allocated to nutrition in Nigeria.
Synthesize and disseminate knowledge and evidence from GAIN Nigeria programmes that can help drive the agenda for nutritious and safe food in Nigeria.
Create opportunities to spread key messages arising from GAIN Nigeria programming through e.g. media, social media, and positioning events.

Country Team Management and Leadership:

As a member of the GAIN Nigeria Senior Management Team, contribute to overall country team management to support the delivery of the country office business plan
Recruit, manage and develop high-performing staff to create and maintain an effective and motivated team.
Contribute to and in some cases lead proposal development and resource mobilization efforts to build the country office project portfolio and expand the scope of our work in Nigeria

Key Organizational Relationships

GAIN Nigeria Country Director & the GAIN Nigeria team
1-5 direct reports
The Policy and Advocacy team
Food Systems Summit Team
Programme Services Team, Knowledge Leadership, Communications, Nutrition Connect and implementation focal points
Key partners including government, communities, private sector, UN, civil society organizations, donors, research institutions

Job Requirements
Skill Profile:

Significant professional experience of policy development and planning work within a government, INGO or private sector setting that involves public private engagement
Key understanding of food systems transformation approaches
Ability to analyze complex policy challenges and chart practical ways forward
Relationship management skills, including the ability to operate comfortably at senior levels with government, business, civil society and donors.
Ability to work collaboratively with a range of different stakeholders from business, farmers, civil society, academia, consumers, etc.
Excellent written and oral presentation skills with good research skills

Desirable:

Currently engaging in food policy dialogue at high levels in local context
Capacity to work closely with national stakeholders to progress the Food Systems Summit influencing agenda and GAIN’s Action Track 1 work
Familiarity with some of GAIN’s advocacy tools: Food Systems Dashboard, Enabling Business to Advance Nutrition Index (EBANI), Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI), etc.

Education:

Masters Level qualification in a relevant discipline e.g. public health or nutrition, business or public administration, public policy or related field or equivalent combination and stakeholder engagement, project management work experience.
Diploma or equivalent certification in project management or business administration is highly desirable. Preferable: PRINCE2 (Foundation and/or Practitioner), Scrum Master, Agile PM.

Other Requirements:

Excellent command of written and spoken English and a local language required
Willingness and ability to travel, within and outside of Nigeria
Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
Pragmatic, dynamic and autonomous person.

What Gain Offers

Salary: Starting salary up to 13,716,145 per annum (depending on experience). An increased starting salary may be available for exceptional candidates
Flexible working hours
Friendly working environment
Professional development opportunities

Application Closing Date
7th March, 2021.

Click here for more information (PDF)

Note: Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.

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Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an international organization driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition.

Around 3.5 billion people — half the people on the planet today — are malnourished. Each year, malnutrition kills 3.1 million children under the age of five and leaves 159 million stunted, trapping generations in lives of poverty and unfulfilled potential. The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is focused on finding solutions to end malnutrition within our lifetimes.

OUR METHODOLOGY /

At GAIN, we believe that no one sector alone can solve the complex problem of malnutrition. We work closely with partners including governments, civil society, businesses, UN agencies, and academic institutions to develop programs that deliver large-scale and locally relevant solutions to malnutrition in more than 30 countries.

In recent years we have expanded our approach to reach those on the margins of society, who are often the most excluded, vulnerable and severely malnourished, such as the Dalit community in India who experience oppression because of their caste; adolescent girls; and families affected by emergencies.

ABOUT GAIN /

Each day, 795 million people — one in nine — go hungry. Close to 2 billion people survive on diets that lack the vital vitamins and nutrients needed to grow properly, live healthy lives, and raise a healthy family. About 1.4 billion people worldwide struggle with overweight and obesity. That’s more than the number of people who are hungry worldwide.

In total, around 3.5 billion people — half the people on the planet today — are malnourished.

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an international organization that was launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition.

GAIN is driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. We act as a catalyst — building alliances between governments, business and civil society — to find and deliver solutions to the complex problem of malnutrition. Today we are on track to reach over a billion people with improved nutrition – a goal for 2015.

We focus our efforts on children, girls and women because we know that helping them have sustainable, nutritious diets is crucial to ending the cycle of malnutrition and poverty. By building alliances that deliver impact at scale, we believe that we can eliminate malnutrition within our lifetimes.

Data sources:

The Lancet’s series on maternal and child undernutrition
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
World Health Organization (WHO)
UNICEF

OUR IMPACT /

GAIN has helped 892 million people to access affordable, nutritious food — about 350 million of whom are women and children. Our work to fortify staple foods and condiments with essential micronutrients reaches more than 30 countries worldwide. Our work includes helping to improve the quality of foods and diets and educating families of the benefits of breastfeeding and good nutrition. Worldwide, our projects are changing lives and contributing to reducing micronutrient deficiencies through large-scale food fortification. For example, we’ve increased the intake of vitamin A in Indonesia by fortifying edible oils and the intake of iron in China by fortifying soy sauce.

By 2017, we aim to increase the intake of essential micronutrients such as vitamins A, D, iron, folic acid and iodine for 1.3 billion people, including 400 million women and adolescent girls, and 200 million children under five.

In countries with the highest rates of malnutrition, multinutrient supplements or ‘home fortification’ help improve nutrition when mixed into food. In Bangladesh, we launched a new micronutrient powder program in collaboration with international development organization BRAC. Since launch, 80,000 community workers have been trained to promote home fortification, and five million sachets were sold in 2014. Monthly sales have more than tripled during the year and the overall market for micronutrient powders grew by 15 percent, with 45 million sachets produced in 2014 alone.

Data source

GAIN 2012–2013 Annual Report

OUR VISION /

GAIN is driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. We believe that everyone in the world should have access to an affordable, healthy and nutritious diet. We focus on children, girls and women to break the cycle of malnutrition and poverty.

By building alliances that deliver impact at scale, we believe that we can end malnutrition within our lifetimes.

OUR APPROACH /

We believe that everyone in the world should have access to an affordable, healthy and nutritious diet.

A tailored approach to innovation. We work to understand and deliver specific solutions to the daily challenge of food insecurity faced by poor people. By understanding that there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ model, we develop alliances and build tailored programs, using a variety of flexible models and approaches.

Scale and ambition. We aim to reach 1 billion people with affordable, nutritious foods by 2015. We build alliances between governments, local and global businesses, and civil society to deliver sustainable improvements at scale. We are part of a global network of partners working together to create sustainable solutions to malnutrition.

What matters most is impact. We focus on early life stages and maternal health when good nutrition has the most impact. We focus our efforts on children, girls and women because we know that providing access to affordable, sustainable, nutritious diets is crucial to ending the cycle of malnutrition and poverty.

OUR VALUES /

Team work

GAIN draws on the different skills of employees to create cohesive teams to deliver our programs in more than 30 countries. We also work closely with public and private partners.

Innovation

Our staff are creative thinkers who develop and test innovative business models to make markets work in a sustainable way for vunerable groups.

Passion

GAIN is made up of dedicated, enthusiastic professionals committed to our mission of making a difference on a large scale.

Professionalism

GAIN ensures professional and scientific rigor, commitment and leadership in our relations with the people and organizations we work with.

ABOUT GAIN /

In total, around 3.5 billion people — half the people on the planet today — are malnourished.

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an international organization that was launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition.

Data sources:

The Lancet’s series on maternal and child undernutrition
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
World Health Organization (WHO)
UNICEF

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Details

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.
The Food Systems Summit will be held in September/October 2021, it is hosted by the UN Secretary General and involving all UN member states. It has a declared focus on system change addressing interconnected challenges: environmental sustainability, planetary boundary limits especially climate change, and increasing inequalities around access to food security and healthy diets. The FSS also takes place in a year which will see the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in December 2021 in which GAIN is actively involved, and which has a specific focus on nutrition commitment within food systems.

Overall Purpose

A critical component of the Food Systems Summit will be national planning processes to develop coherent plans. One component of the FSS strategy is a set of food systems dialogues hosted by every member state to this end.
The Head of Policy and Advocacy will be responsible for ensuring that the interventions led by GAIN and by its different partners are coordinated so that overall project and policy milestones and goals are met. They will be expected to provide technical support to project staff as required.
The inclusion of nutritious and safe foods as a major theme is well aligned with GAIN’s strategy to make nutritious foods more affordable and accessible for all. The FSS is therefore a major opportunity to advance our strategy and merits a special effort to link and align many aspects of our programmes, learning and influencing. Country level participation, through the influencing work led by the Country Director and the Head of Policy and Advocacy is the key to its success.
The postholder lead GAIN Nigeria’s wider influencing agenda and support country office management and leadership as part of the Senior Management Team

Tasks and Responsibilities Lead GAIN’s policy work in country and carry out the following tasks:Food Systems Summit:

Tracking and mapping national preparations for the Food Systems Summit, and the N4G Summit
Act as a technical and organisational resource to facilitate and support national food systems dialogue/s and other planning mechanisms to develop a national food action plan and/or plans and commitments made at the Summits
Engage in, and where appropriate, contribute and facilitate the preparations for the national commitments
Facilitate GAIN expertise derived from its national programmes and its global expertise into national consultation and planning see [www.gainhealth.org].
Be the principal country link to the cross-GAIN working group on the Summit
Lead on internal communication to educate and inform fellow GAIN colleagues on the objectives of the summit and each GAIN staff member can contribute.
Integrate and align the Food Systems Summit policy and advocacy work into GAIN’s national business plan.

Influencing Agenda:

Monitor, attend and engage to represent GAIN, where appropriate, in key national-level and country-level policy fora and meetings.
Lead on external engagement with key stakeholders in government, private sector, UN, donors and civil
society including academia, media, and other development practitioners; to improve support for GAIN’s mission and increase resources allocated to nutrition in Nigeria.
Synthesize and disseminate knowledge and evidence from GAIN Nigeria programmes that can help drive the agenda for nutritious and safe food in Nigeria.
Create opportunities to spread key messages arising from GAIN Nigeria programming through e.g. media, social media, and positioning events.

Country Team Management and Leadership:

As a member of the GAIN Nigeria Senior Management Team, contribute to overall country team management to support the delivery of the country office business plan
Recruit, manage and develop high-performing staff to create and maintain an effective and motivated team.
Contribute to and in some cases lead proposal development and resource mobilization efforts to build the country office project portfolio and expand the scope of our work in Nigeria

Key Organizational Relationships

GAIN Nigeria Country Director & the GAIN Nigeria team
1-5 direct reports
The Policy and Advocacy team
Food Systems Summit Team
Programme Services Team, Knowledge Leadership, Communications, Nutrition Connect and implementation focal points
Key partners including government, communities, private sector, UN, civil society organizations, donors, research institutions

Job Requirements Skill Profile:

Significant professional experience of policy development and planning work within a government, INGO or private sector setting that involves public private engagement
Key understanding of food systems transformation approaches
Ability to analyze complex policy challenges and chart practical ways forward
Relationship management skills, including the ability to operate comfortably at senior levels with government, business, civil society and donors.
Ability to work collaboratively with a range of different stakeholders from business, farmers, civil society, academia, consumers, etc.
Excellent written and oral presentation skills with good research skills

Desirable:

Currently engaging in food policy dialogue at high levels in local context
Capacity to work closely with national stakeholders to progress the Food Systems Summit influencing agenda and GAIN’s Action Track 1 work
Familiarity with some of GAIN’s advocacy tools: Food Systems Dashboard, Enabling Business to Advance Nutrition Index (EBANI), Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI), etc.

Education:

Masters Level qualification in a relevant discipline e.g. public health or nutrition, business or public administration, public policy or related field or equivalent combination and stakeholder engagement, project management work experience.
Diploma or equivalent certification in project management or business administration is highly desirable. Preferable: PRINCE2 (Foundation and/or Practitioner), Scrum Master, Agile PM.

Other Requirements:

Excellent command of written and spoken English and a local language required
Willingness and ability to travel, within and outside of Nigeria
Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
Pragmatic, dynamic and autonomous person.

What Gain Offers

Salary: Starting salary up to 13,716,145 per annum (depending on experience). An increased starting salary may be available for exceptional candidates
Flexible working hours
Friendly working environment
Professional development opportunities

Application Closing Date 7th March, 2021.

Click here for more information (PDF)

Note: Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.

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