Junior Associate - Environment
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The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Junior Associate - Environment to support the Environment team with their activities across GAIN’s programmes. This is an administrative position that provides an exciting opportunity to develop a career in the food and environment space.
This role will be on a 2 years’ fixed term contract basis, subject to availability of funding. This position will be based in the GAIN London office.
Reporting to the Environmental Lead, you will support the Environment team with their activities across GAIN’s programmes, advocacy and operational work and on the Innovative Food Systems Solutions (IFSS) portal.
- Supporting the timely project implementation of the environment workstream under the Nourishing Food Pathways (NFP) programme at both global and country levels
- Supporting the accurate and timely financial transactions of the programme including processing purchase orders, contracts and invoices with the support of the Environment Lead and global finance team
- Scheduling and planning workshops and supporting project teams to use the screening tool to mitigate environmental risks and maximising opportunities for nutrition-environment co-benefits
- Providing technical and administrative support to international events, liaising with other GAIN departments and programmes, GAIN partners and other organisations
- Conducting desk research and developing briefs and other materials for the programme
- Contributing to the development of communications materials (blogs, articles, videos, social media posts) to drive awareness and engagement with the linkages between nutrition and climate, and the solutions to joint challenges
About You
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a broad understanding of programme issues and advocacy work for development programmes, NGOs, donor funded and related projects and rounded knowledge on food systems and the environmental challenges and opportunities in low-to-middle income settings. Candidates’ with experience working with financial administration processes is desirable.
You should have strong administrative and communication skills and you must possess the ability to work on a wide portfolio of projects with multiple teams across various geographical contexts. The postholder should also have an excellent command of written and spoken English.
A Bachelor’s degree level in environmental science, international development, public policy, public health or related field or equivalent experience is preferred, and candidates’ with experience in visiting, living or working within developing countries would be an advantage. Also, you should be highly flexible and willing and able to travel between countries.
Candidates’ must be passionate about the challenges of addressing nutrition, food systems and environmental issues.
The starting salary on offer for this role is from GBP 29,719 – GBP 31,855 per annum (gross salary), 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 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.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with both governments and businesses, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious food for all people. In particular, we aim to make healthier food choices more desirable, more available, and more affordable. GAIN’s mission is to advance nutrition outcomes by improving consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially the most vulnerable to malnutrition.
We provide a flexible working environment that includes a combination of home and office working opportunities through our global hybrid working policy. This encourages our staff to have a healthy work-life balance and increases staff motivation, enriches employee wellbeing, and improves performance and productivity.
All of our positions are based in one or more of GAIN’s designated offices as stated on our job advertisements. Successful candidates will be based in one of GAIN’s country offices and must have the existing right to live and work within a reasonably commutable distance of the relevant city / cities in which the role is advertised. Please note, that GAIN does not sponsor working visas and relocations.
GAIN reserves the right to withdraw an offer of employment for candidates who are considered to ineligible under the above conditions during or after the recruitment process.
For more detailed information please see the attached job description. To apply, follow the "Apply Now" link.
Applicants must be currently based in London, United Kingdom region to be eligible to apply for this position.
This advert closes on 2nd August 2023. Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is committed to equality of opportunity and creating an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. We are keen to reflect the diversity of our society at every level within our organisation and therefore welcome applications from talented and committed people from all backgrounds, representing the diverse societies we operate in.