About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project Manager, RAINS to provide functional, technical and managerial leadership towards the effective implementation of RAINS project in Bangladesh. This role will be offered on a 3 years’ fixed-term contract basis, subject to availability of funding. You will be based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Reporting to the Portfolio Lead, LSFF and Value Chain, you will be responsible for the management and implementation of the Diversified Resilient Agriculture for Improved Food and Nutrition Security (RAINS) project with close collaboration with the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and other agencies of the of the Ministry of Agriculture along with United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
Throughout the project life cycle, you will ensure the accurate planning, management and reporting of activities, budgets (resources), monitoring, external services and any other key areas required to deliver successful projects.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Defining project scope, activities and objectives in line with the GAIN business plans, programme frameworks, and organizational strategic priorities
- Identifying, tracking and resolving project issues on an ongoing basis, and proactively seeking support where issues require wider attention and resolution
- Leading a project team consisting of people across the organisation
- Building and maintaining strong partnerships with government entities particularly different field level agencies of the Ministry of Agriculture, civil society, INGOs, private sector and other organizations
- Writing donors’ reports in collaboration with project teams, technical teams, funding team and support teams
- Ensuring narrative reporting and financial accounting meet GAIN and donor’s requirements
- Working with international finance to ensure that accurate budgets and forecasting are drawn up for all activities, and that activities costs are kept within budgets
- Leading on the procurement process by identifying, selecting and managing suppliers within ethical and procurement standards and guidelines
- Ensuring monthly project reporting (in line with GAINs Project Management Standards) to update management on program progress achieved, program plans, changes in direction and challenges encountered
About You
The ideal candidate will have proven experience in project management in complex and diverse environments as well as working with local government bodies. You will have proven experience on climate-smart and nutrition-sensitive technologies, integrated farming approaches to collaborate with the farmers’ groups and production clusters and integrated farming business models tailored to the specific needs of women and youth living in poverty and vulnerability.
The postholder will also have experience in delivering projects on time / on budget, using project management processes and tools including risk management, benefits management, financial management and quality assurance and demonstrable understanding of the gender and protection dynamics of humanitarian and development work, and ability to capture this in the analysis and design of interventions.
You will be a dynamic individual with strong ability to work with diverse groups/individuals and will be highly flexible and willing to travel in challenging environments. In addition to this, you will possess fluent written and spoken English.
Postgraduate degree in agriculture, food science, governance, nutrition, development studies or related field and/or bachelor’s degree or recognized international accreditation in project management. You will be IT literate with excellent MS Office skills and with excellent project management capabilities.
About our Offer
The starting salary on offer for this role is from BDT 2,394,972 – BDT 2,738,570 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 Dhaka, Bangladesh region to be eligible to apply for this position.
This advert closes on 14th August 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.
