Africa Coordinator-Food and Land Use Coalition at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Africa Coordinator-Food and Land Use Coalition
- Location:
Open to Kenya & Ethiopia locations
- Salary:
As listed in the advert
- Contract
Type: Fixed Term
- Duration:
12 Months
About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking
to recruit the Africa Coordinator, Food and Land Use coalition where the
position holder will support coordination of FOLU’s activities in Africa. This
role will be offered on a one (1) year fixed term contract, subject to
availability of funding and will be based in either of our offices in Nairobi
or Addis Ababa.
The position holder will support in three key areas namely:
- Coordinating
and supporting the strategy, delivery and performance of the FOLU country
platforms in Africa ensuring their work is aligned with FOLU’s global
vision.
- Acting
as a bridge between the African country platforms and the Global
Secretariat, facilitating knowledge exchange, learning, donor reporting,
and strategic discussions.
- Supporting
fundraising and resource mobilization to strengthen country platforms and
enable them to achieve impact within the broader global FOLU framework.
Key Responsibilities include
- As a
member of the Global Secretariat, support the Country Directors in FOLU’s
country platforms in Africa (currently FOLU Ethiopia and FOLU Kenya) to
enable the successful delivery of planned activities.
- Coordinate
with the country platforms to help address the operational and strategic
challenges assisting with problem solving and supporting the progress of
delivery
- Work
closely with the Funds Management Team in the Global Secretariat to ensure
timely. disbursements, accurate forecasts and the appropriate allocation
of resources, while also assisting with the reporting of country platform
financials as needed.
- Support
the country platforms with their resource mobilization efforts when
needed, working closely with FOLU’s Senior Development Manager.
- Assist
in ensuring that countries are represented in global fundraising
activities including helping to develop coalition-wide proposals and
participate in discussions with programmatic donors.
- Ensure
that country platforms are kept informed about the activities and
priorities of global teams and vice versa. This includes working with the
Global Secretariat’s Knowledge Generation, Communications Team, Impact and
Partnerships Teams.
- Work
with colleagues in the Countries Action Team to help with the scale up and
expansion of FOLU’s country platforms.
About you
You should have solid stakeholder management experience with
different levels of seniority and being the point contact person. Previous
experience coordinating work within a coalition involving different sector
actors is critical. The position holder should be able to demonstrate
experience in developing concepts and proposals for resource mobilisation
efforts. Knowledge of food and land use systems will be important combined with
the ability to facilitate capacity building sessions with partners.
You should have excellent project management skills as this
position will coordinate multiple engagements across the continent. The ideal
candidate should demonstrate capacity to work in a multicultural setting and
experience with project management processes and tools.
An education background with a minimum of bachelor’s degree
in Environment Studies/Science, Agriculture/Food Systems, international
development, Economics or related field is required.
About our Offer
The gross salary per annum on offer for this role is as
listed below for each location.
- Kenya:
KES 3,219,600 – KES 3,683,388
- Ethiopia:
USD 14,904 – USD 17,040
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.
Manager, Nutrition Financing and Development at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Key Responsibilities include
Technical Advisory and Strategy Development
- Provide
strategic technical guidance to DFIs and governments on structuring
financing solutions to promote sustainable nutrition outcomes.
- Design
tailored financial products, integrating them with government policies and
grant components.
- Lead
the development of financial models, business cases, and proposals to
secure funding for government-backed initiatives.
Project Design, Planning and Implementation
- Lead
the preparation of inception workshops and design country workplans
- Work
with relevant environment, gender and safeguarding specialists to ensure
that these components are integrated in project design and implementation
plans.
- Oversee
the delivery of project activities, ensuring quality, timely delivery, and
budget compliance
Capacity Building and Knowledge Management
- Design
and deliver capacity-building programs to enhance GAIN staff and country
teams’ engagement with DFIs and their financing processes.
- Provide
targeted training to country teams on DFI operations, negotiation tactics,
and building strong relationships with DFI technical officers.
Project Management and Oversight
- Proactively
identify and resolve project issues, adapting activities as needed and
escalating issues for wider support when necessary.
- Monitor
risks, develop contingency plans, and ensure regular project reviews to
stay aligned with objectives.
- Collaborate
with finance and procurement teams to manage budgets, ensure compliance,
and select ethical suppliers.
People Management
- Build
a high performing project team consisting of people across the
organisation.
- Coach
and/ or mentor the project team members and support the development of
their capacity.
- Build
understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender,
child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles
Relationship Management
- Build
and maintain strong partnerships with relevant government entities,
private sector actors, financial institutions and development
organizations to drive sustainable, inclusive financial solutions geared
towards nutrition financing.
- Help
to facilitate partnerships between SMEs and investors and service
providers
About you
- The
ideal candidate should have demonstrable experience working for, or
with Development Finance Institutions, government agencies, international
development banks, impact investment consultancies, or development
organisations in the financing and project management space working on the
design of grants and loans.
- In
addition to this, the postholder should have knowledge in structuring
DFI loans, grants, and blended finance mechanisms.
- The
postholder should have solid track record in managing complex projects,
ensuring successful delivery on time, within budget, and to the required
quality standards.
Project Accountant at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking
a Project Accountant to support the Manager, Finance and Compliance through
effective quality management service to the organisation. This role will be
offered on a two (2) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of
funding and will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The position holder will be expected to provide and support
the financial management of a portfolio of donor relationships with an emphasis
on non-US donors, ensuring compliance with contract terms, preparing and
reviewing reports to donors and supporting donor audits.
Key Responsibilities include
- Ensuring
that reviews of financial performance are carried out to timetable and
that explanations of financial variances and changes to forecast
assumptions are recorded.
- Support
the preparation of annual consolidated accounts and the external statutory
audit by producing reports, supporting documentation and explanations as
required.
- Preparing
interim and final donor financial statements, cumulative summaries and
periodic forecasts for review by finance managers, ensuring that these are
accurate, that they are consistent with reported programme activity and
that they are produced in accordance with agreed deadlines.
- Ensuring
that donor reports and forecasts comply with grant contracts, particularly
for those donors with very specific detailed information requirements.
- Ensuring
that transactions and cost allocations charged to grants are compliant
with expenditure restrictions specified within donor agreements, and with
donor requirements for allowable expenditure.
- Check
and close donor grants that have reached their completion date, ensuring
that final reports have been submitted, all funds are received, and
contractual obligations met.
- Monitor
the operation of GAIN’s financial processes including procurement and
payments, ensuring that published procedures are followed, reporting any
significant breaches and approving transactions in line with delegated
authority.
- Draw
on observations and analysis of processes and procedures for financial
management and donor accounting to provide suggestions, recommendations
and observations for improvements to finance managers.
About you
The ideal candidate should have demonstrable experience of
the financial management of donor grants. Experience of USAID, DFID, Dutch MFA,
EU grants are highly preferred. In addition, they should have experience in
multicurrency reporting and accounting providing financial business partnering
to a portfolio of projects and supporting in the financial management of these
projects.
In addition to this, the postholder should be an effective
communicator, demonstrated in financial and narrative reporting and verbal
explanations. They should be comfortable working with a wide variety of
multicultural stakeholders.
The postholder should have experience interacting with
accounting systems, experience of NAV and/or Jet Reporting would be good to
have. An education background where fully qualified or part qualified
accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent). Progression towards
qualification an advantage.
About our Offer
The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from KES
2,468,076 – KES 2,816,616 gross per annum, 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 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.