Project Coordinator, Demand Generation Alliance

About the Role

• The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project Coordinator, Demand Generation Alliance to establish a new alliance and coordinate across relevant pillars, with a special focus on ‘Strengthening Collaboration’ and ‘Enabling Action’. This role will be offered on a three(3) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

At the country level, new alliances will be developed in line with the DGA 3-pillar operating model. In countries the operating model will

• Build Knowledge – support research and learning, apply the strategic framework to address food culture.
• Strengthen Collaboration – develop and coordinate a local alliance to achieve a shared understanding of the need to shift society-wide preferences and commit to coordinated action in the food culture to achieve that aim. Open local membership to actors interested in DGA’s work.
• Enabling Action - deepen in-country engagements, identify a preference issue, nurture a coalition, support local fundraising efforts.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Develop, and coordinate an effective stakeholder relationship management.
• In close coordination with Global DGA, implement the country workplan, as work packages, to ensure that deliverables are met.
• Coordinate and facilitate local management meetings, including drafting agenda, power-point presentations, talking points, meeting notes.
• Support the reviewing/editing concept notes.
• Delivery of the learning and socialization activities (e.g., events, trainings, webinars)
• Organize events in coordination with service providers, partners or members.
• Input into the monitoring, learning, evaluation of DGA.
• Develop written summaries of local activities to support donor reporting.

About you

• The ideal candidate should be highly experienced in stakeholder engagement and able to rally relevant actors within the alliance to strengthen collaboration and enable action. Previous experience coordinating an alliance is highly preferred. You should demonstrate ability to understand technical literature in nutrition, food culture, sociology, or anthropology.
• You should demonstrate experience communicating health or science information to diverse audiences. Excellent organizational skills and follow-through is necessary to succeed in this role, combined with the ability to translate technical documents for more general audiences. The ideal candidate should be able to develop written summaries of local activities to support donor reporting.
• The post holder should have an educational background with a degree in either Sociology/Anthropology, Political Science, Health or Science Communication or relevant field. A diploma or post graduate degree in a specialist competency area is desirable.