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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 of:

Job Title: Programme Lead, Commercialisation of Biofortified Crops

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Duration: 24 Months
Classification: C6 – Programme Lead
Direct Reports: 1 – 5

Overall Purpose

  • The Programme Lead will be responsible for building out GAIN’s programming in commercialisation of biofortified crops through programme design, technical support to country programmes, and supporting on-time and on-budget delivery across all country programmes.
  • In addition, the postholder will manage GAIN’s engagement with our partner organisations, specifically around commercialisation and marketing of biofortified crops.
  • They will bring excellent portfolio management skills to the relationship between GAIN, HarvestPlus and our other partners, and take a lead role within GAIN in supporting the execution of the commercialisation of biofortified crops strategy.

Tasks and Responsibilities
Support Program Design, Delivery and Scale Up:

  • Constantly emphasise key GAIN design parameters (impact, scale, and sustainability), promoting innovative, customer-focused, and high value-for-money solutions
  • Provide technical oversight to the implementation of activities that bring biofortified crops to scale through commercialisation activities such as:
    • Production delivery models (e.g., clustering smallholder farmers, mapping crop geographic zones, large scale farmers),
    • Supply chain and market development initiatives e.g., crop aggregation models, linking processors with aggregators/farmers, working with agro-dealers, and supporting food processors along the supply chain (business case development, access to finance, product development and manufacturing, distribution, and market development).
  • Co-lead, with our partners, the development of detailed workplans to support the commercialisation of biofortified crops in Asia and Africa, clarifying how GAIN and our partners will ensure impact, scale, and sustainability in a small number of strategically selected geographies.
  • Support design process in GAIN countries and provide technical know-how to deliver strategically relevant, sound, and feasible project design.
  • Work closely with GAIN’s Knowledge Leadership and our partner’s monitoring and evaluation teams to ensure monitoring and tracking targets, evaluation and learning takes place within the commercialization activities.
  • Coordinate with and report to the partnership donors.

Programme Leadership, Strategy and Partnership Development:

  • In existing global fora, contribute strategic direction and good practice to build strong evidence-based approaches to commercialisation of biofortified crops and nutrient rich agricultural commodities.
  • Help build links between biofortified crops and other food systems interventions for nutrition.
  • Provide guidance to GAIN country teams on strategy development, state of the field, and positioning of commercialization of biofortified crops programme.
  • Keep up to date with programmatic advances in biofortification and related areas, commercialization, synthesizing and sharing with other team members as appropriate.
  • Develop and manage relationships with other organisations active in the biofortification and commercialisation of agricultural commodities space.
  • Support development of good practice material in commercialisation approaches, its dissemination.
  • Support delivery of a dissemination and visibility plan (incl. by leading on dissemination workshops, manuscripts, publications, blogs, white papers, articles, factsheets, brief), alongside GAIN’s Knowledge Leadership, Communications and Country programmes teams, as well as with GAIN’s partners.
  • Internal communications within GAIN on programme progress and results.
  • Always maintain a fluid and positive communication with our partner organisation counterparts.

Resource Mobilization and Representation:

  • Support resource mobilization for commercialization of biofortified crops programmes and relationship management with funders
  • Significantly contribute to resource mobilization pipeline and success rates.
  • Provide technical support to development office on major bids for multi-country / multi-sectoral proposals and strategic donors.
  • Identify new channels of funding (foundations, UHNWI)
  • Represent the GAIN and commercialisation projects partnership at global and national technical meetings and workshops.

Develop and Maintain High-Performing Staff:

  • Mentor and coach Project Managers and other staff
  • Lead the recruitment of key staff (direct reports). Support the recruitment of key technical staff e.g., country-based roles.
  • Champion and demonstrate GAIN’s values.
  • Protect and promote the effective functioning of the Quad system.

Key Organizational Relationships:

  • Reports directly to the Cluster Lead, Food Fortification, working closely with other project colleagues and implementing partners as required for the agreed upon activities.
  • Supports the SMT member on the GAIN-HarvestPlus Management Team with timely information and advice;
  • Work closely with the broader Programme Services Team (PST) to draw in technical and design skills to help build the programme and ensure quality implementation and monitor of progress against the GAIN/Partner partnerships performance indicators.
  • Work closely with GAIN Country Offices to support the implementation of activities under the GAIN/Partner partnership
  • Work with the GAIN Development Office to identify and respond to new funding opportunities.

Job Requirements
Education:

  • University level degree in a relevant field such as business and marketing, food technology, development studies, economics, agricultural development, or other relevant technical field.
  • Masters degree desirable.

Experience:

  • Demonstrable success in managing multi-country, multi-donor, multi-partner consortium projects of $10M or more.
  • Substantial level of professional experience directly or indirectly related to marketing foods, new product category development, supply chains and international development. Experience implementing large market-based nutrition programs and projects will be an added advantage.
  • Strong business-to-business (B2B) development skills, trade marketing, or partnership management. Blend of private and public experience preferred.
  • Experience working at both at global and country levels preferred.
  • Demonstrated excellence in written/verbal communications, research, writing, and analytical ability.
  • Previous experience of leading and managing a team.

Competencies:

  • Excellent representational, strategic, and diplomatic abilities to represent GAIN and our partners
  • Recognised expertise in market strengthening
  • Proven ability to use initiative, prioritize, multi-task, and work well under pressure to meet deadlines.
  • Clear and systematic thinking that demonstrates good judgment, problem solving, and creativity.
  • Excellent project coordination, management, negotiation, and advocacy skills.
  • Strong communication skills in multi-cultural, multi-lingual environments (written and verbal).
  • Flexible, with a willingness and ability to travel in challenging environments.
  • IT literate with excellent MS Office skills.
  • Ability to operate within the private and public sectors to effectively liaise with food enterprises, development agencies, and governments at senior level.

Other Requirements:

  • Professional proficiency in business English is required.

Application Closing Date
28th April, 2021.

Salary

  • Starting Salary: NGN 12,001,627 – 13,716,145 annually.
  • Please note, this salary stated is per annum and is depending on experience. More may be available for an exceptional candidate).
  • 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.

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Note

  • 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.
  • 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.

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
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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 of:Job Title: Programme Lead, Commercialisation of Biofortified CropsLocation: Abuja Employment Type: Contract Contract Type: Fixed Term Duration: 24 Months Classification: C6 - Programme Lead Direct Reports: 1 - 5
Overall Purpose
  • The Programme Lead will be responsible for building out GAIN’s programming in commercialisation of biofortified crops through programme design, technical support to country programmes, and supporting on-time and on-budget delivery across all country programmes.
  • In addition, the postholder will manage GAIN’s engagement with our partner organisations, specifically around commercialisation and marketing of biofortified crops.
  • They will bring excellent portfolio management skills to the relationship between GAIN, HarvestPlus and our other partners, and take a lead role within GAIN in supporting the execution of the commercialisation of biofortified crops strategy.
Tasks and Responsibilities Support Program Design, Delivery and Scale Up:
  • Constantly emphasise key GAIN design parameters (impact, scale, and sustainability), promoting innovative, customer-focused, and high value-for-money solutions
  • Provide technical oversight to the implementation of activities that bring biofortified crops to scale through commercialisation activities such as:
    • Production delivery models (e.g., clustering smallholder farmers, mapping crop geographic zones, large scale farmers),
    • Supply chain and market development initiatives e.g., crop aggregation models, linking processors with aggregators/farmers, working with agro-dealers, and supporting food processors along the supply chain (business case development, access to finance, product development and manufacturing, distribution, and market development).
  • Co-lead, with our partners, the development of detailed workplans to support the commercialisation of biofortified crops in Asia and Africa, clarifying how GAIN and our partners will ensure impact, scale, and sustainability in a small number of strategically selected geographies.
  • Support design process in GAIN countries and provide technical know-how to deliver strategically relevant, sound, and feasible project design.
  • Work closely with GAIN’s Knowledge Leadership and our partner’s monitoring and evaluation teams to ensure monitoring and tracking targets, evaluation and learning takes place within the commercialization activities.
  • Coordinate with and report to the partnership donors.
Programme Leadership, Strategy and Partnership Development:
  • In existing global fora, contribute strategic direction and good practice to build strong evidence-based approaches to commercialisation of biofortified crops and nutrient rich agricultural commodities.
  • Help build links between biofortified crops and other food systems interventions for nutrition.
  • Provide guidance to GAIN country teams on strategy development, state of the field, and positioning of commercialization of biofortified crops programme.
  • Keep up to date with programmatic advances in biofortification and related areas, commercialization, synthesizing and sharing with other team members as appropriate.
  • Develop and manage relationships with other organisations active in the biofortification and commercialisation of agricultural commodities space.
  • Support development of good practice material in commercialisation approaches, its dissemination.
  • Support delivery of a dissemination and visibility plan (incl. by leading on dissemination workshops, manuscripts, publications, blogs, white papers, articles, factsheets, brief), alongside GAIN’s Knowledge Leadership, Communications and Country programmes teams, as well as with GAIN’s partners.
  • Internal communications within GAIN on programme progress and results.
  • Always maintain a fluid and positive communication with our partner organisation counterparts.
Resource Mobilization and Representation:
  • Support resource mobilization for commercialization of biofortified crops programmes and relationship management with funders
  • Significantly contribute to resource mobilization pipeline and success rates.
  • Provide technical support to development office on major bids for multi-country / multi-sectoral proposals and strategic donors.
  • Identify new channels of funding (foundations, UHNWI)
  • Represent the GAIN and commercialisation projects partnership at global and national technical meetings and workshops.
Develop and Maintain High-Performing Staff:
  • Mentor and coach Project Managers and other staff
  • Lead the recruitment of key staff (direct reports). Support the recruitment of key technical staff e.g., country-based roles.
  • Champion and demonstrate GAIN’s values.
  • Protect and promote the effective functioning of the Quad system.
Key Organizational Relationships:
  • Reports directly to the Cluster Lead, Food Fortification, working closely with other project colleagues and implementing partners as required for the agreed upon activities.
  • Supports the SMT member on the GAIN-HarvestPlus Management Team with timely information and advice;
  • Work closely with the broader Programme Services Team (PST) to draw in technical and design skills to help build the programme and ensure quality implementation and monitor of progress against the GAIN/Partner partnerships performance indicators.
  • Work closely with GAIN Country Offices to support the implementation of activities under the GAIN/Partner partnership
  • Work with the GAIN Development Office to identify and respond to new funding opportunities.
Job Requirements Education:
  • University level degree in a relevant field such as business and marketing, food technology, development studies, economics, agricultural development, or other relevant technical field.
  • Masters degree desirable.
Experience:
  • Demonstrable success in managing multi-country, multi-donor, multi-partner consortium projects of $10M or more.
  • Substantial level of professional experience directly or indirectly related to marketing foods, new product category development, supply chains and international development. Experience implementing large market-based nutrition programs and projects will be an added advantage.
  • Strong business-to-business (B2B) development skills, trade marketing, or partnership management. Blend of private and public experience preferred.
  • Experience working at both at global and country levels preferred.
  • Demonstrated excellence in written/verbal communications, research, writing, and analytical ability.
  • Previous experience of leading and managing a team.
Competencies:
  • Excellent representational, strategic, and diplomatic abilities to represent GAIN and our partners
  • Recognised expertise in market strengthening
  • Proven ability to use initiative, prioritize, multi-task, and work well under pressure to meet deadlines.
  • Clear and systematic thinking that demonstrates good judgment, problem solving, and creativity.
  • Excellent project coordination, management, negotiation, and advocacy skills.
  • Strong communication skills in multi-cultural, multi-lingual environments (written and verbal).
  • Flexible, with a willingness and ability to travel in challenging environments.
  • IT literate with excellent MS Office skills.
  • Ability to operate within the private and public sectors to effectively liaise with food enterprises, development agencies, and governments at senior level.
Other Requirements:
  • Professional proficiency in business English is required.
Application Closing Date 28th April, 2021.
Salary
  • Starting Salary: NGN 12,001,627 - 13,716,145 annually.
  • Please note, this salary stated is per annum and is depending on experience. More may be available for an exceptional candidate).
  • 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.

Click here for more information PDF

Note

  • 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.
  • 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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