• Employer: The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

• Job Time: Full-Time

• Job Type: Contract

• Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Addis Abeba - Ethiopia, Kenya

• Salary: USD 26,760 – USD 30,600 gross/annum

• Deadline: December, 06/2024

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Lead, Knowledge, and Engagement, Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) to head the Knowledge and Engagement (K&E) team of FOLU’s Global Secretariat. This role will be offered on a two(2) year fixed-term contract, subject to availability of funding, and will be based in either of our GAIN offices in Nairobi, Kenya, or Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The Lead, Knowledge & Engagement(K&E) will be responsible for FOLU’s global thought leadership, business engagement strategy, and its financial institution's engagement strategies contributing to accelerating ambitious action.

By working with the Coalition’s eight International Partners and seven country platforms, the Lead will coordinate to co-create shared work plans, implementing strategies to drive behavior change across the targeted stakeholder groups.

The post holder will also have a leadership role - contributing to the broader strategy and operational delivery of FOLU as a member of FOLU’s Senior Leadership Team.

This unique opportunity involves working with some of the world’s most prominent institutions and individuals in the fields of food systems, agriculture, environment, health, and nutrition.

The Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) is a self-governed Coalition of organizations and individuals working collaboratively to achieve a shared objective: the urgent transformation of food and land use systems to deliver a better future for people, nature, and climate. FOLU supports science-based solutions and helps to build a shared understanding of the challenges and opportunities to unlock collective, ambitious action.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Leveraging your technical knowledge, work to ensure FOLU remains at the cutting edge of driving needed behavior change within food systems. Identify key leverage points and strategies for systemic transformation, which are allied with FOLU’s agreed International Engagement Strategy and Results Framework, with a focus on sustainable agriculture, land management, nutrition, food security, and climate impact reduction. Facilitate and coordinate a participatory process that draws on the expertise and inputs of coalition members and the learning and insights of FOLU’s Country Platforms.

• As part of the FOLU Senior Leadership Team, provide strategic advice to the coalition on FOLU’s overall impact strategy as well as knowledge / thought leadership opportunities. Provide input to impact strategies of FOLU country platforms and strategic partner initiatives.

• Lead and coordinate knowledge products and workstreams to generate new insights on transforming food and land use systems towards sustainability and resilience through coordination and alignment with FOLU’s international partners. Develop and produce high-impact knowledge products, such as reports, briefs, and policy recommendations, to influence stakeholders at local, national, and global levels. Collaborate with experts across disciplines, including economics, agriculture, climate science, and policy, to integrate diverse perspectives into research and product development.

• Responsible for delivery of K&E team activities, including strategic oversight of day-to-day activities and workstreams.

• Oversee grant and funder reporting for policy-influencing activities.

• Identify opportunities to grow FOLU’s thought leadership and impact, particularly with shifting corporate and financial institutions’ behavior. Support and facilitate concept development for new workstreams, platforms or products working with the KE team, country platforms, international partners and potential funders.

• Build and maintain relationships across the FOLU coalition and with external partners across the private sector, civil society, financial institutions and international institutions. Engage with global and regional networks, academic institutions, NGOs, and other partners to build alliances and disseminate research outputs.

Job Requirements

We are looking for an individual with a proven track record in leading multi-stakeholder initiatives, coalitions or campaigns on topics related to food systems, nutrition, climate change or other related environmental issues. You should have experience in multilateral global and national level policy processes related to food systems, nutrition, climate change or other related environmental issues with the ability to spot challenges and opportunities in low- and middle-income countries.

The post holder should possess an extensive network in relevant areas combined with experience in representation with key stakeholders such as donors, government, food system investors etc. In addition to this, you should be experienced in developing strategies and solving complex strategic and tactical problems as they arise.

People management skills are critical to succeed in this role due to the number of partners involved in this coalition combined with excellent management and strategic leadership skills. You should be comfortable to travel internationally(15%). An educational background with a master’s in environmental studies or science; agriculture/food systems; international development, economics or related area is required.

About our Offer

The starting gross salary per annum on offer for each location is as indicated below.

Kenya: KES 6,055,272 – KES 6,920,316 gross/annum

Ethiopia: USD 26,760 – USD 30,600 gross/annum

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.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants can apply using THIS LINK