Project Coordinator, Enhancing Access to Safe and Nutritious Diets (ENSAND)

About the Role

The Enhancing Access to Safe and Nutritious Diets (ENSAND) project is a 5-year project that seeks to improve the dietary quality of Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) households by increasing egg consumption amongst children. The focus is mainly on young children aged six months to nine years in FCT, Kaduna, and Kebbi states. The project’s strategic approach targets both out-of-school and in-school children. For in-school children, the project aims to leverage the Nigerian Social Investment Program (NSIP), specifically the Home-Grown School Feeding Program (HGSFP), targeting children from Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) households attending government primary schools in classes 1-3 and their out-of-school siblings aged 6-59 months of age.

GAIN Nigeria seeks to recruit a Project Coordinator who will be located in Kaduna and responsible for the implementation of project activities under the ENSAND project. With support from the Senior Project Manager, this position will also be directly responsible for the coordination of the Dutch 3.0 Social Protection intervention intended to enhance the effective delivery of the ENSAND project. The Project Coordinator will support the implementation of specific project activities including demand generation, capacity building, partnership management and reporting. In addition, s/he will also support the management of CSO partners and consultants who will be recruited to deliver specialized elements of the project output/deliverables. This position will report directly to the Senior Project Manager and programme lead for the ENSAND project.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Support the Senior Project Manager in managing the project schedule, activity, milestones, tracking of progress and deliverables.
• Support the drafting of necessary project documents during implementation as per the GAIN Project Management Guidelines (PMG) i.e., results framework, work plans etc.
• Support prospective partners capacity assessment exercises, development and implement context specific scope of work aimed at enhancing access and consumption of eggs by children in designated home-grown school feeding programme and BoP households.
• Directly responsible for the delivery of the Kaduna component of ENSAND project and complementary Social Protection activities that cuts across access, demand generation and external environment (EE) intervention pathways.
• Responsible for tracking and providing updates on ENSAND and Social Protection project workplans using innovative medium that helps the team to keep abreast of project deliverables.
• Lead the development, implementation and tracking of partner’s post Organizational Development (OD) capacity building/system strengthening response plan including the project’s demand generation intervention in Kaduna.

About You

The ideal candidate should have knowledge and experience managing and reporting on community-based demand generation interventions among vulnerable population including children from Bottom of Pyramid(BoP) households. You should have proven knowledge of poultry value chain, agricultural and or any other food value chain in Nigeria.

The ideal candidate should also have partnership management and experience in coordinating and tracking capacity building interventions is required. Some understanding of the gender and protection dynamics of humanitarian and development work, and ability to capture this in the analysis and design of interventions. Experience working with government institutions especially at state and LGA level.

An education background with a degree or equivalent from a recognized institution in project management and/or bachelor’s degree in business management, international relations, sustainable development, economics, peace and conflict studies, nutrition science, public health, programme management, food technology, or related field.

About our Offer

The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from NGN 9’558’516 – NGN 10’907’460 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 27th December 2023. 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.