Project Coordinator, Food Culture Alliance & Consumer Demand at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

The postholder will be expected to establish a new alliance in Kenya and coordinate across all three pillars, but with a special focus on ‘Strengthen Collaboration’ and ‘Enable Action’. The overall purpose is twofold:

• To ensure that the local Food Culture Alliance is a well-functioning ecosystem of connected actors engaged with food culture issues.
• To nurture a coalition that emerges from the local alliance. This person is the main country contact point for all matters related to the Food Culture Alliance. This is expected to be 70% of the role.

The other 30% is focused on project managing the work where GAIN is identifying ways to extend its consumer demand generation approach to promote diets & foods that are both nutritious and environmentally more sustainable.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Develop, and coordinate effective stakeholder relationships to secure support for, and good collaboration, on food culture.
• In close coordination with Global Food Culture Alliance, implement the country workplan, as work packages, to ensure that deliverables are met and integrating of the local activities with the overarching global FCA plan.
• Coordinate and facilitate local management meetings.
• Manage the alliance membership database.
• Support the reviewing/editing concept notes.
• Organize events in coordination with service providers, partners or members while ensuring delivery of the learning and socialization activities (e.g., trainings, webinars, events).
• Manage day to day execution of research projects under supervision of global Knowledge Leadership lead for the project.
• Manage creative agency relationship under the supervision of global demand lead for the project.
• Contribute to the interpretation of research and creative brief development and input into the monitoring, learning, evaluation of Food Culture Alliance(FCA).
• Develop written summaries of local activities to support donor reporting.

About you

• The ideal candidate should be highly experienced in stakeholder engagement and able to rally relevant actors within the alliance to strengthen collaboration and enable action. Previous experience coordinating an alliance is highly preferred. You should demonstrate ability to understand technical literature in nutrition or food culture and support management of research projects. Experience managing creative agency relationships would be highly desirable.
• You should demonstrate experience communicating health or science information to diverse audiences. Excellent organizational skills and follow-through is necessary to succeed in this role, combined with the ability to translate technical documents for more general audiences. The ideal candidate should be able to develop written summaries of local activities to support donor reporting.
• The post holder should have an educational background with a degree in either Sociology/Anthropology, Political Science, Health or Science Communication or relevant field. A diploma or post graduate degree in a specialist competency area is desirable.