Associate, Social Protection at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

About the role

GAIN and CARE Kenya are currently implementing a project known as CASCADE whose goal is to improve food security and contribute to the reduction of malnutrition amongst women of reproductive age and children under 5 in Kenya. The programme has two strategic objectives: it aims to increase access to and consumption of healthy diets, as well as increasing the resilience of households to economic and climate change-related shocks across in three counties in Kenya, with a focus on women of reproductive age and children.   

Reporting to the Influencing and Advocacy Manager, the Social Protection Associate will contribute to the implementation of GAIN’s social protection programs, including policy and advocacy support. The successful candidate will support on social protection to ensure our programmes have a social protection lens. 

Key Responsibilities include.

• In consultation with the programme team provide support on social protection to ensure our programmes have social protection lens. 
• Support with the updating of the repository of policy documents that are relevant to social protection. 
• Support with the development of PowerPoint presentations and relevant briefing documents to support stakeholder engagement and influencing.  
• Support the development of social protection materials for target audiences as needed. 
• Contribute to drafting reports, policy papers and briefs, factsheets and other documents which synthesize. GAIN learnings, values, and priorities on social protection .
• Support with stakeholder analysis and social protection needs mapping in Kenya. 
• Provide an inventory of partners and stakeholders who are involved in social protection.  
• Support the content development for social protection policy and advocacy components of reports to donors and other key stakeholders, including media. 

About you

• The ideal candidate should have demonstrated experience in social protection demonstrating ability to map social protection needs within Kenya while collaborating with programme teams to ensure a social protection lens is applied during programming.
• Experience supporting development of social protection materials for targeted audiences is preferred.
• The post holder should demonstrate ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders while championing the social protection agenda within all programmatic areas.
• Contribute to drafting reports, policy papers and briefs, factsheets and other documents which synthesize GAIN learnings, values, and priorities on social protection.
• You should have an understanding of social protection landscape in Kenya with ability to deliver high quality outputs in addition to excellent written/verbal communications, research, writing, and analytical ability. Candidate should have an education background in a relevant field such Gender and social protection or other relevant fields.