Project Manager NGO Job GAIN
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About the Role
Large Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) is a cost-effective nutrition intervention which complements other interventions to fight malnutrition. Because it improves the nutrient content of basic staples and condiments that are part of daily diets, it can reach billions of people with essential vitamins and minerals without requiring any change to their behavior. It increases the health and productivity of people and nations, benefiting people all over the world.
GAIN supports Large Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) though providing technical support and training to food producers to improve the quality of fortified foods, supporting governments to establish and strengthen LSFF programs, coordinating multi-sectoral efforts to improve LSFF monitoring and enforcement, improving fortification quality, among others.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project Manager, Large Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) to provide overall accountability for project management delivery and leadership, ensuring that activities are implemented in accordance with approved plans, budgets, timelines, and quality standards. The manager will ensure robust planning, implementation, monitoring, external services, risk management, financial oversight, and accurate internal and donor reporting to enable the successful delivery of LSFF projects.
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This role will be offered on a two (2) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Key Responsibilities include
- Define the LSFF project scope, activities, and objectives in line with GAIN business plans, programme frameworks, and strategic priorities, and lead project design and planning workshops.
- Strengthen the technical and institutional capacity of key stakeholders across the food fortification value chain (including producers, laboratories, premix blenders, and government regulators) to ensure effective fortification and regulatory compliance.
- Ensure effective planning, coordination, and delivery of food fortification inputs, including premix, fortification hardware, and laboratory and diagnostic supplies, addressing supply chain risks that could affect project outcomes.
- Promote and ensure adherence to GAIN’s code of conduct and organizational principles, including equity, diversity, gender, child safety, and staff health and wellbeing.
- Lead on advocacy and accountability initiatives involving private sector leaders such as CEOs, public-sector, third-party advocates, implementing partners and other key stakeholders.
- Supporting government to establish and strengthen LSFF programs; specifically enabling a strategic, systematic, collaborative, transparent and economical regulatory landscape and therefore, improving LSFF impact overall.
Qualifications
- You are an accomplished international development professional with demonstrated experience in designing and managing complex projects in nutrition and Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF). Brings in-depth knowledge of LSFF compliance, quality assurance, and impact, with extensive experience working alongside industry and government stakeholders in Kenya to strengthen and sustain effective fortification programmes.
- The position holder should be experienced in advocacy and engagement to build accountability, influence policy, and drive collective action. Excellent stakeholder engagement and consensus building skills are critical to succeed in this role. You should have strong project management skills to implement the project within budget, donor timelines and organisational compliance parameters.
- Excellent people management and facilitation skills highly preferred. An education background in food science and technology, nutrition, sustainable development or related field is required. Training or certification in food fortification or micronutrient interventions, food safety, quality assurance will be an added advantage.
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