Junior Associate, Strengthening Nutrition in Priority Staples (SNiPS) at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

The Strengthening Nutrition in Priority Staples (SNiPS) project proposes a set of nutrition-sensitive interventions to support the BMZ/GIZ Green Innovation Centre (GIC) in Nigeria to strengthen businesses and the value chains of cassava, maize, orange-fleshed sweet potato, and rice through targeted business support activities, workforce nutrition interventions and increased production and use of biofortified crops.  GAIN proposes to deliver an integrated suite of activities to support the GIC in Nigeria to strengthen their priority value chains and improve food and nutrition security through improved diets for farmers, farm workers, other workers in businesses in these value chains, and among the wider population in Nigeria.

Reporting to the Project Manager, Workforce Nutrition, the Project Associate, will support the implementation of specific project activities in their assigned states (Benue, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Oyo) based on approved work plans. In addition, they will support project reporting and provide the administrative cover necessary to ensure timely implementation and achievement of key project outputs.

Key Responsibilities include

• Support the implementation of the SNiPS Workforce Nutrition Project by fostering strong collaboration with implementing agencies. 
• Support the Workforce Nutrition team with travel logistics arrangements.
• Under the direction of the Project Manager, support the implementation of project components with other project leads from GAIN and GIZ Nigeria, to ensure activities are executed within set time frame.
• Support to create and deliver project reports, analyse data from project implementation.
• Work closely with GAIN Nigeria operations team in raising of Purchase Orders and processing related to payments for procurement of goods and services.
• Under the supervision of the project Manager, support demand stimulation for production and consumption of biofortified varieties of the selected staples and promote dietary diversification among the target participants.
• Support timely flow of project-related information between key stakeholders and partners.
• Perform other relevant tasks as assigned by the Project Manager.

About you

The ideal candidate should have demonstrated experience directly or indirectly related to implementation of nutrition programs, market-based agricultural and nutrition programs and projects. Experience stimulating demand for food and agricultural commodities through social or commercial marketing methods preferred. The candidate should be proactive and able to work with minimal supervision.

The post holder should demonstrate knowledge in agricultural or food value chain in Nigeria, ability to generate reports that provide useful insights. Highly organized and detail oriented. They should be comfortable engaging with a wide variety of actors in the food value chain and comfortable travelling to field locations.

You should possess good negotiation skills with ability to support the project manager in engaging contractors and vendors to deliver high quality results. The candidate should have an education background in Human Nutrition, Nutrition Science, Public health, Community Nutrition, food technology, agribusiness, development studies, economics, agricultural development, Agricultural Economics, or another relevant technical field or work experience

About our offer

The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from NGN 5,139,552 – NGN 5,860,896 per annum, depending on experience. Other benefits are as attached below the job description.

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 and hybrid 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.