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Project Manager - Large Scale Food Fortification

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. GAIN is a Swiss based international organization that mobilizes public-private partnerships and provides financial and technical support to deliver nutritious foods to those people most at risk of malnutrition. The organization is delivering improved nutrition to an estimated 700 million people in more than 30 countries, half of whom are women and children.
GAIN fights malnutrition in Bangladesh through innovative and sustainable models that increase access to affordable nutritious foods among communities vulnerable to malnutrition. Through large scale food fortification program, GAIN promotes availability of and access to adequately iodized salt and vitamin A fortified vegetable oil can improve the nutrition level of millions of vulnerable women and children. GAIN is uniquely positioned to be a leader in large scale food fortification program for nutrition among the global health and business communities and is now seeking a Manager – Large Scale Food Fortification Program to drive this initiative in Bangladesh, working closely with the Country Manager as well as with colleagues in GAIN Headquarters.
The Project Manager will provide leadership, management oversight and technical support to the country office Vegetable Oil fortification program and Universal Salt Iodization (USI) program. S/He will be responsible for influencing key decision makers and political leaders, setting the agenda, enforcing new legislation on mandatory fortification, capacity building of current Bangladesh standard and testing facility, building and strengthening strategic alliances with private sectors and networks. The person will also steer the country office visibility strategy, build the portfolio of new programs and communications surrounding Large Scale Food Fortification to ensure GAIN as a partner of choice.
Responsibilities
Large-Scale Food Fortification of Oil Program
  • Lead the refined vegetable oil fortification program in Bangladesh in close partnership with refineries and their association, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Health and other stakeholders.
  • Assess and Support capacity building of BSTI (Bangladesh standard and testing Institution) to develop enforcement of the mandatory fortification law.
  • Develop case study on voluntary fortification Develop new Social Behaviour Change Plan and Campaign (SBCC) to promote and raise awareness of Vitamin-A Fortified Oil in Bangladesh.
  • Review and monitor program progress, reporting to the Country Manager, Bangladesh, and draft periodic progress and financial reporting reviews documents provided by the Grantees, make recommendations on requests for disbursements.
  • Support GAIN Monitoring and Evaluation team on the program evaluation set up and execution
  • Continue networks, alliances and platforms and mobilize private sector champions in and around the food fortification agenda. Revitalize the National Food Fortification Alliance.
  • Develop Knowledge Management (KM) products, best practices, QA/QC and capacity building manual for mainstreaming of the best practices on vegetable oil fortification program.
Universal Salt Iodization (USI) Program
  • Implement key activities which seek to improve the Quality Assurance / Quality Control (QA/QC) of the salt industry and building regulatory monitoring or external QA/QC capacity with government stakeholders.
  • Work on a Social Behaviour Change Campaign (SBCC) to promote and raise awareness of the importance of iodised salt, with an overarching goal to seek to stablise the demand for iodised salt.
  • Support existing Control for Iodine Deficiencies (CIDD) business model and make recommendations on enhanced strategy for the USI program, in consultation with the Ministry of Industries, the Ministry of Health, Micronutrient Initiative (MI) and UNICE
  • Prepare draft implementation, progress and financial reports when required (upon successful funding ,
  • Document learnings and human interest stories for publication and onward sharing, in close collaboration with GAIN’s communication team.
Business Development and diversifying revenue growth
  • Work closely with country and HQ team to raise resources, diversify revenue growth and build a robust investment pipeline.
  • Provide technical and drafting assistance to the Resource Mobilisation team based in HQ for the proposal writing of further funding for both programs LFF and USI.
  • Evaluate the potential for new fortifiable vehicles (e.g Rice, bouillon cube..)
  • Work closely with Ministry of Industries and CIDD project on sustainable supply of premix.
  • Catalyse actions to build synergy and convergence with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and leverage resources for the edible oil fortification program.
Experience
  • 10+ years of professional experience at progressive senior levels in Program Management including experience in demonstrating impact at scale.
  • Working experience with the Bangladesh government’s policy makers, researchers, advocates, and other stakeholders in Bangladesh.
  • Technical background and 5+ years experience in Food safety/quality.
  • A strong track record of understanding and influencing policy dialogue and implementation to improve program impact. Direct experience in high level meetings and similar settings, in order to advocate, cultivate and negotiate significant partnerships.
  • Experience in global and/or national health and development and strong knowledge on the current issues of Bangladesh and the region.
  • Experience and comfort in donor and developing country leadership settings, with leaders/decision makers from all sectors.
  • Proven track record of working with the media to raise the profile of a cause and/or organization or experience in an SBCC/SMC campaign.
  • Ability to build and strengthen networks, strategic alliances, people based campaigns.
  • Experience in mature, fast paced and start-up settings.
Skills & Attributes
  • Ability to both think and plan strategically, being able to communicate those strategies, as well as execute them.
  • Knowledge of food fortification, agri business value chain, policy, legislation, budget and advocacy strategies.
  • Ability to manage diverse and multi stakeholder partnership and build strategic alliance and platforms.
  • Comfort with multi-tasking and operating in a fast paced, multi-faceted, and multi-cultural environment Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team.
  • Demonstrated excellence in communication, research, writing, and analytic ability.
  • Keen ability and interest in analyzing data and trends to advocate around appropriate policies.
  • Keen ability to understand and analyze legislation, taxation policies, protocols and standards.
  • Excellent command of spoken and written English and Bengali is a must.
  • Experience of working in the food industry or public health sector in Bangladesh is an advantage.
Education
  • Masters in international relations, public health, business administration or related field

HOW TO APPLY:
If you are interested, please, send your CV and cover letter via:http://jobs.gainhealth.org/vacancies/280/project_manager_large_scale_foo...