Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Senior Manager, Knowledge Leadership Jobs in Kenya

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Senior Manager, Knowledge Leadership Jobs in Kenya

About GAIN

GAIN is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with both governments and businesses, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious food for all people.

In particular, we aim to make healthier food choices more desirable, more available, and more affordable. GAIN’s mission is to advance nutrition outcomes by improving consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those most vulnerable to malnutrition.

About the Role

The global Knowledge Leadership (KL) team works across GAIN’s programmatic areas to develop strategic research and learning agendas. The KL team provides technical support to ensure quality design, implementation and timely dissemination of such work. The team also lead of GAIN’s internal performance measurement.

The Senior Manager, KL will provide global leadership for a team of staff engaged in research, evaluation and technical support to micronutrient status and diet assessment, fortification and biofortification assessment and programming (and other programming areas as relevant).

They will work closely with the Director, Knowledge Leadership to lead and oversee and the design, resourcing, strategic direction, implementation and delivery of the agenda of the knowledge leadership team ensuring that projects are technically sound and aligned to GAIN’s corporate strategy.

Externally, they will act as the GAIN KL ambassador to partners, donors and beneficiaries, representing excellence in GAIN research and evidence, and significantly influencing global nutrition strategies.

Role Specifics Include;

Providing overall research leadership, ensuring the integration, continuous improvement complementarity input of research, evaluation and learning into GAIN’s programmes and projects in line with GAIN’s priorities and global best practices

Fostering engagement with research and other thematic leads in UN agencies and major donors on research related activities to ensure a smooth and appropriate collaboration, representing GAIN at global events and ensuring the skills and interest of consortium partners is appropriately utilized to achieve the KL teams programme

goals

Overseeing the timely dissemination and collaboration with GAIN’s teams on the development of scopes of work, outlines, and peer review publications for all research products to ensure high standards for technical content

Contributing to GAIN influencing objectives through participation in committees, boards, advisory groups relevant to GAIN’s strategy

Leading and contributing to the development of proposals for new funding, including authoring text in partnership with the Development Office team

Providing overall leadership to KL projects and line managing a number of direct reports to ensure team synergy and high-quality technical project delivery in time and budget

Providing technical support to other programming areas as needed

About you

You will bring extensive implementation, research, and evaluation experience, with desirable experience in large scale food fortification or biofortification.

You will demonstrate a deep knowledge and a high level of strategic thinking in areas of research conceptualisation and design, ideally within nutrition and food systems relevant for GAIN’s programming areas, to support the advancement of the knowledge leadership programme. In addition to this, you will posess a strong track record in leading and developing people with exceptional influencing, networking, negotiation and advocacy skills.

Skills in quantitative research methods is essential to the role (i.e survey design, implementation, data analysis, survey management, budgeting, etc).

A PhD in nutrition, public health, or related field is required. Formal project management and leadership training would be a distinct advantage.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Senior Manager, Knowledge Leadership Jobs in Kenya

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