Senior Associate, Stakeholder Engagement, Demand at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Key Responsibilities include;

• Translating technical content into easy-to-understand language for each stakeholder segment to ensure that service providers develop the appropriate communication materials and delivery of the learning and socialization activities (e.g., events, trainings, webinars)
• Developing, leading, and maintaining an effective stakeholder relationship management approach of appropriate scale to track progress, including coordinating meeting and managing stakeholder feedback
• Coordinating and implementing the global and country workplan
• Supporting budget management by raising and tracking invoices, payments, and future expenditures within the budget totals
• Converting the strategic goals set out by management into plans consisting of work packages and deliverables
• Supporting the costing of a workplan to deliver the strategy and fundraising by helping to draft proposals and presentations

About You

• The ideal candidate will have proven experience with stakeholder engagement across various sectors and a variety of channels within a project environment. You should have experience within the food sector, having worked either in the civic, private and/ or governmental organization.
• You should have exceptional project management, relationship management and communication skills including a demonstrated understanding around the technical concepts of demand generation in the food/nutrition sector.
• You will possess the ability to express and translate complex ideas and technical documents for general audiences. In addition to this, you must be willing to work in multicultural and multilingual environments.
• The ideal candidate should be IT literate, with excellent MS Office skills., Also, you will have excellent presentation and organisational skills and have the ability to maintain the efficient use of project management tools, e.g., GANTT charts, SPRINT process.
• A Bachelors’ degree in Sociology/Anthropology, Health or Science Communication or related fields is required. Candidate with a demonstrated ability to understand technical literature in anthropology, sociology, food culture, nutrition is highly desirable.