Country: Mozambique
Closing date: 16 Feb 2019
POSITION: Senior Associate, Program’s Learning Agenda Component LOCATION: Maputo, Mozambique SALARY: Competitive STARTING DATE: March 2019
GAIN’s purpose is to advance nutrition outcomes by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those most vulnerable to malnutrition. In particular, we aim to improve the consumption of safe and nutritious foods for—at a minimum—1 billion people over the next five years and target major improvements to food systems, resulting in more diverse and healthier diets for vulnerable people in countries where we work. GAIN Kenya has been operational in the country since 2010 and has received funding to continue and upscale its country programs at least until 2020.
We are seeking to deploy a Senior Associate, Program’s Learning Agenda Component who will provide support to Better Diets for Children and the Workplace Nutrition programs, by coordinating monitoring, researching, quality improvement and evaluation activities. This position will report to the Project Manager, Better Diets for Children, with a secondary report to the Workplace Nutrition Project Manager. The position will be based in GAINs Mozambique office, and includes occasional travel, up-to 30%. You will be required to be able to interpret research findings and translate findings for practical application in the program and to improve systems and operations for implementing evaluation research in nutrition programs.
The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge and experience of field research experience in Mozambique and the ability to conduct participatory research and impact evaluation in relevant fields (public health nutrition, consumer or market research, agricultural or food economics). You must be experienced in development-related research with proven success in designing, implementing and operating Project M&E systems from project initiation to close out stages. The successful candidate will also need to have experience in quantitative research and analysis and experience in qualitative research and analysis. You will be required to have strong critical analysis skills to evaluate the quality of research results and extract key learnings and effective practices from research findings.
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