About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking an Associate – Environment and Policy to support the execution and coordination of project and policy activities in relating to GAIN India’s work on Climate and Nutrition. This role will be offered on a 2 years’ fixed term contract basis, subject to availability of funding. You will be based in GAIN’s India office in New Delhi, India.
Reporting to the Head of Programmes and Policy (HoPP), you will support the Environment team with their activities across GAIN’s programmes, policy and advocacy and operational work in India.
The Associate will be involved in core project activities and provide a range of support services, including preparing reports, maintaining project documentation, implementing and monitoring project plans and various other administrative tasks. In addition, you will support the policy and advocacy work and fundraising and Donor Management activities.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Managing assigned activities in the plan and supporting tracking progress and deliverables from project partners, donors, and implementation partners and preparing timely monitoring reports with findings and recommendations
- Preparing and maintaining project documentation and PRISM for project reporting and monitoring to ensure accessibility of quality information and contribute to the achievement of project outcomes
- Working through key food systems and sustainable development fora and mechanisms to participate in the identification of opportunities to influence strategic direction and good practice on integrated action on climate and nutrition
- Maintaining strong partnerships with civil society, INGOs, government entities, the private sector and other organizations to strengthen the work related to food systems in India to support the policy and advocacy country team
- Supporting the Communication team to develop communications materials (blogs, articles, videos, social media posts), technical documents, advocacy briefs and related materials to drive key project activities as well as to drive awareness and engagement with the linkages between nutrition and climate, and the solutions to joint challenges
- Supporting in the management and reporting for existing grants, including tracking of grant activities, drafting input for reports, and preparing for renewal proposals
- Working in close collaboration with HoPP and Country Director on opportunity screening and support proposal development for future Climate and Environment work
- Overseeing 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
- Processing timely payments to consultants and other service providers, ensuring compliance with GAIN procurement policy.
About You
The ideal candidate will have experience in project management and rounded knowledge on environmental challenges and opportunities in LMIC settings. Candidates with experience in delivering a wide range of project management and support services within tight deadlines, limited resources, while managing competing priorities would be desirable. In addition, you will possess strong ability to work with diverse groups/individuals, ranging from local partners, local authorities, local community groups, the civil society and the private sector.
You will possess good communication and influencing skills, fluency in written and spoken in English and willing to work in a multi-country and multi-cultural environment. You should also be highly flexible and willing and able to travel.
The ideal candidate will posess strong writing skills, with analytical capacity and ability to synthesize project outputs and relevant findings for the preparation of quality project reports. A Bachelor’s degree in business management, international relations, sustainable development, economics, development studies, peace and conflict studies or related field. You will be computer literate with advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems.
About our Offer
The starting salary on offer for this role is from INR 978,132 – INR 1,119,216 per annum (gross salary), 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 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 be currently based and have the existing right to live and work in the New Delhi, India region to be eligible to apply for this position.
This advert closes on 29th November 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.
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