About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Programme Officer, Workforce Nutrition to provide technical support in ensuring effective and quality implementation of Workforce Nutrition project activities in Bangladesh. This role will be offered on a 2 years’ fixed-term contract basis, subject to availability of funding. You will be based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Reporting to the Project Manager, you will be responsible for maintaining the quality implementation of the project whilst maintaining working relationships with implementation partners and business partners.
The Officer will also contribute to develop the project implementation plan (PIP) and review its progress against key performance indicators (KPI) and targets. You will work closely with factories, community people, and other stakeholders for quality delivery and provide course corrective measures to overcome challenges.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Providing technical support to develop a detailed implementation plan with clear roles and responsibilities for implementing partners and relevant stakeholders
- Developing technical documents and guidance on safe food and nutrition and WASH activities for partner staff, factory management, and community people
- Developing partnerships with businesses, factories, nutritious and safe food suppliers, implementing organisations, and relevant government organizations for smooth operation of the project interventions
- Supporting the development of the standard operating procedure for the Fair Price Shop (FPS) and taking necessary steps for its implementation
- Facilitating training for the factory management, community leaders, and Peer Educators on basic nutrition and safe food
- Supporting in the development of Behaviour Change Communication tools and materials in consultation with partners, factories and relevant experts
- Collaborating with the GAIN monitoring and improvement team, developing and ensuring quality implementation of the monitoring framework and reporting system
- Visiting the field and monitoring food distribution related activities at the factory, supplier, and partner level
- Working closely to develop a monitoring system for tracking FPS sales and generating various reporting
About You
The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in developing and managing projects in a multi-cultural environment in nutrition and food system. You will have strong experience in garment sector project implementation and management, preferably promoting nutrition activities. Candidates’ with experience in delivering integrated nutrition programmes in the food system is an asset.
The postholder will also have experience in providing supportive supervision and programme monitoring at the field level, with a proven ability to work effectively in a team environment and matrix structure.
You will be a dynamic individual with good interpersonal and communication skills in multicultural, multi-lingual environments and will be highly flexible and willing to travel in challenging environments. In addition to this, you will possess fluent written and spoken English.
A Bachelors or Master’s degree in food science, nutrition, social science, business administration or a suitable equivalent is required. You will be IT literate with excellent MS Office skills and with experience in analysis of data and quality reporting.
About our Offer
The starting salary on offer for this role is from BDT 1,172,004 – BDT 1,340,892 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.
