Job Title: CASCADE Programme Associate
Hiring Organization: Global
Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Nutrition
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 05/14/2024
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a CASCADE Programme Associate to provide operational, administrative, and coordination support to the GAIN CASCADE programme across countries. This role will be offered on fixed-term contract for two (2) years, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.
GAIN in
consortium with CARE implements the Catalyzing Policy Action for Healthy Diets
and resilience (CASCADE) programme, to improve food security and contribute to
the reduction of malnutrition of at least 5 million women of reproductive age
and children in Benin, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.
The
CASCADE programme has two strategic objectives: 1: To increase access to and
consumption of healthy diets among household members in the six programme
countries, particularly women of reproductive age and children. Strategic
objective 2: To increase resilience to price and climate change-related shocks
and stresses of household members in the six programme countries, particularly
women of reproductive age and children. CASCADE programme will operate in six
countries until December 2026.
Supporting
the Programme Lead you will keep track of the countries project status,
challenges, opportunities, stories, and timely delivery of projects across the
countries. The role will provide operational, administrative, and coordination
support to the GAIN CASCADE programme.
Key
Responsibilities include
- Providing
support to the planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting
processes of CASCADE projects.
- Supporting
the quality and timely delivery of countries projects by ensuring project
managers are well informed of processes, deadlines and requirements and
connected with relevant resources from elsewhere in GAIN.
- Contributing
to the tracking of CASCADE project workplan activities on an ongoing basis
and escalating any issues and challenges to Programme Lead to ensure
resolution.
- Assisting
in drafting internal communications and ensuring good communication within
programme team across countries.
- Supporting
coordination between country teams, technical teams and professional
services to contribute to the effective management and delivery of the
CASCADE programme.
- Contributing
to a culture of mutual accountable partnership with other teams within
GAIN and CARE that supports CASCADE programme implementation.
Competencies
- Strong
project operations management, administrative, networking and
communication skills
- Highly
motivated with the ability to work independently and able to deliver high
quality work and achieve milestones within tight deadlines.
- Flexible
and well organized, quick to learn.
- Good
team player, able to work effectively as part of a multicultural,
distributed team.
- Strong
written and verbal communication and presentation skills, including a
proven ability to communicate diverse and disparate information and
messaging in simple and concise formats.
- Advanced
Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint skills with proven experience
- Able
to deliver a professional administrative support service maintaining
office records and files and gathering and managing information.
- Familiarity
with working in an international context across multiple countries
- Excellent
knowledge and experience of Microsoft packages
- Competent
in the use of Excel spreadsheets to record and track financial data.
- Ability
to work with complex databases
Experience
- Bachelor’s
degree in business administration, international relations, communication
or another related field.
Education
- Business
English, written and verbal is essential.
- Business
French, written and verbal will be preferable.
- Willingness
and ability to travel within and outside of the country.
