Country: Ethiopia

Organization: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Closing date: 14 Sep 2023

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Programme Monitoring Manager to lead the programme monitoring activities across GAIN Ethiopia projects. This role will be offered on a 2 years’ fixed term contract basis, subject to availability of funding. You will be based in GAIN’s Ethiopia office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Reporting to the Head of Policy and Advocacy, your technical aspects of work will be managed by the Global Program Monitoring Lead and Knowledge Leadership team. You will also be in close collaboration with the centralized program teams.

The postholder will ensure the learnings from monitoring and research are used to make improvements to programmes and to strengthen the overall strategy. You will provide senior technical support to the project teams to design, coordinate and implement the monitoring framework of the country programme.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Overseeing the in-country monitoring activities for all programmes

• Leading on the consolidation of the country Learning Agenda to capture programme learning and informing improvements to programmes and strategy

• Leading and responsible for the design and adaptation of the programme monitoring tools and processes and leading on the training and quality assurance of the programme monitoring components

• Conducting monitoring field visits as required to ensure that project progress is on track

• Contributing to critical analysis and interpretation of monitoring and research results to formulate recommendations on program actions, improvements, and lessons learned

• Reviewing and interpreting monitoring data as part of preparation for GAIN’s performance and donor reports and ensuring quality of project reports aligning with the theory of change and results framework

• Keeping the project teams and the country director regularly updated on the project status (on track or off track) with critical analysis and possible solutions to challenges based on interactions with partner organizations

• Serving as GAIN’s monitoring focal point in the Ethiopia office for experts from key development partners, I/NGOs and Civil Society Partner

• Participating actively in dissemination of programme learnings for external audiences (e.g., preparation of papers for the GAIN paper series, publications, presentations etc.)

• Leading the recruitment of key staff (direct reports) and motivating team members to attain organizational goals and delivering their work to the quality required

About You

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in critical analysis skills to extract key learning and effective practices from programme monitoring and its application to programme improvement. You will have proven experience in the public health nutrition sector, with expertise in programme monitoring and deep knowledge of programme design and monitoring tools, their application and quality assurance

You will have knowledge of major quantitative and qualitative monitoring methodologies and proven ability to design monitoring instrumentation tools. In addition to this, you will have excellent project management skills (including planning, implementing and monitoring and reporting).

The postholder should be a strong communicator with excellent command of written and spoken English and able to work effectively in a multicultural environment. You will be a strong team leader with the ability to advise and mobilize individuals within or outside your reporting line.

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Social Science, Nutrition, Public Health, Economics, Statistics or related field. You should be highly flexible and willing and able to travel in country frequently. Candidates’ with expertise in data management and analysis tools and software as well as training and experience in research and/or impact evaluation will be an asset.

About our Offer

The starting salary on offer for this role is from ETB 1,027,788 – ETB 1,175,796 per annum (gross salary), depending on experience.

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 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.

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.

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 be currently based and have the existing right to live and work in the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia region to be eligible to apply for this position.

This advert closes on 14th September 2023. 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.

How to apply

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