About the job

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project Manager, CASCADE to lead the CASADE project activities at GAIN Ethiopia. This role will be on a fixed-term contract up to 5 years, subject to availability of funding.

This position will be based in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Up to 60% of the Project Manager’s time will include travel within Amhara to zones, woreda, and kebeles. Applicants must be currently based in the Bahir Dar, Amahara region to be eligible to apply for this position.

About the Role

Reporting to the Senior Program manager – Food Systems Policy and External engagement, the Project Manager will be responsible for the overall strategic management and delivery of the project activities, ensuring the effective implementation of the project and will lead the project team in supporting enabling environment to increase access to and consumption of healthy diets, and to increase resilience of households.

The Project Manager will provide technical support to key stakeholders including government offices and private sector players for proper implementation of the National Food and Nutrition strategy.

In addition, you will ensure the project’s achievements are monitored, tracked, and documented in a timely manner and lead efforts to address behavioural barriers and the enabling environment towards nutritious foods consumption in Ethiopia.

Key Responsibilities include;

• Leading and managing the development and implementation of project workplans, outputs and budgets and tracking progress, including direct provision of regular updates to the Workstream global leads, funders, and country team leadership
• Responsible for the overall strategic management, effectiveness and delivery of the project activities, ensuring achievements are met, with emphasis on creating enabling environment for nutritious foods accesses and consumption.
• Ensuring efficient management of project funds through regular tracking of funds utilization and gaps thereof along with Ethiopia and global finance point persons
• Collaborating with country and global teams to facilitate stakeholder alignment and developing key partnerships between public / government and private sectors
• Engaging with key partners including national and regional government bodies to identify influencing agendas and support proper implementation of food and nutrition related policies, directives
• Providing technical supports to government bodies and selected MSMEs to make safe and nutritious foods accessible and affordable to target community

About You

The ideal candidate should have demonstrable project management experience working with various partners and service providers in time-bound projects. You should have a good understanding and experience with international development, particularly in food systems, agricultural value chain, nutrition, and other similar topics.

The postholder should have strong analytical skills with the ability to liaise with government offices and private business sectors effectively. You should have strong communication and negotiation skills, fluent in English and good command in Amharic (both verbal and written) and able to work in multi-cultural, multi-lingual environments. In addition to this, candidates will ideally have knowledge and experience in nutritious food demand creation , food quality and safety.

The postholder should be highly flexible and willing to travel frequently to the field. A Degree in Economics, business management, Food science or other relevant fields will be an additional advantage.

About our Offer

The starting salary on offer for this role is from ETB 661,224 – ETB 756,216 per annum, depending on experience.