The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Global Youth Campaigns Coordinator to increase visibility, outreach, and impact of the ACT4FOOD movement. This role will be offered on a 15-month fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in either of the following locations Nairobi, New Delhi, Kigali or Dar es Salaam Tanzania.
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.
About the role
The Youth Campaign Coordinator is responsible for supporting the ACT4FOOD movement. The position is responsible for delivering GAIN’s youth leadership initiative through the ACT4FOOD movement and will play a crucial role in coordinating the recruitment, mentoring and training of youth leaders including regularly activities, events and oversight of youth leaders’ collective action campaigns. They will also be responsible for increasing visibility, outreach, and impact of the campaign.
Key Responsibilities include.
- Organise and coordinate ACT4FOOD campaign activities including the monthly youth leader meetings, yearly retreat and implementation of collective action.
- Deliver the GAIN youth leadership initiative via the ACT4FOOD movement through capacity building sessions and mentoring youth-led campaigns. Adapt the delivery of the initiative based on project learnings and input from youth leaders.
- Ensure alignment of the campaign with GAIN programmatic activities reaching young people working closely with the Programme Lead.
- Build engagement and manage social media profiles for Act4Food to enhance voice, awareness and relevance.
- Develop monthly newsletter and keep A4F subscribers regularly updated of key activities.
- In collaboration with the Programme Lead, develop project summaries, collate lessons learned and draft best practice documents.
About you
The ideal candidate should have experience mobilising young people for causes related to food or nutrition. Experience in campaign management, especially projects related to and working with youth, stakeholder engagement, youth engagement, public engagement, social media, project management is required to succeed in this role.
Experience providing support to multiple countries is required since the position holder will have global outreach needs engaging with people from different cultures and backgrounds.
The position holder should have experience running online outreach and engagement sessions combined with excellent project management skills. The role holder will be expected to interact with stakeholders at different levels of seniority ensuring alignment of the campaign with GAIN programmatic activities reaching young people.
About our offer
The starting gross salary per annum on offer for this role is as indicated below for each location.
Rwanda(Kigali): RWF 16,743,048 – RWF 19,101,228
Kenya(Nairobi): KES 3,125,820 – KES 3,576,108
India(New Delhi): INR 1,282,020 – INR 1,466,532
Tanzania(Dar es Salaam)-USD 26,112 USD 29,868
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.
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 have the right to work and be currently based in the advertised country location,to be eligible to apply for this position.
For more detailed information please see the attached job description. To apply, follow the “Apply Now” link.
This advert closes on 20th September 2024. 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.
