Senior Associate, Development Office
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Senior Associate, Development Office to support country teams in the development and design of new projects and leading and coordinating proposal development processes and donor reporting. This role will be offered on a permanent contract basis, subject to availability of funding. You will be based in GAIN’s India office in New Delhi, India.
Reporting to the Manager, Development Office, you will act as the primary contact point for assigned GAIN country offices for all project development and resource mobilization activities.
The postholder will support country teams in the development and design of new projects and leading and coordinating proposal development processes and donor reporting. In addition, you will support the engagement of new donors and identification of new funding opportunities and maintaining a portfolio of donor relationships and reporting responsibilities.
- Scoping and identifying new donors, and actively contributing to build new donor and partner relationships to develop and grow GAIN’s Asian country programmes in accordance with the countries’ strategic priorities
- Identifying new funding opportunities and funders through relationships with colleagues, partners and via desk-based research
- Working closely with GAIN Asian country teams in all aspects of programme and proposal development in collaboration with GAIN technical experts
- Coordinating bid processes to achieve production of winning proposals and ensuring quality control and review processes are adhered to in-line with GAIN’s internal proposal development processes
- Maintaining and developing existing donor relationships and acting as the first point of contact for all donor relationships within agreed portfolio of donors
- Coordinating reporting processes, ensuring quality control, internal processes are adhered to and ultimately timely submission of high-quality reports to donors which meets their needs and requirements
- Providing recommendations to country teams on their programme development and resource mobilisation strategy and promotional materials and profiles
- Participating in and/or delivering workshops and meetings designed to support and guide GAIN’s Asian country offices in prioritizing their resource mobilization and programme development efforts
- Acting as the key point of contact for all GAIN Asian offices on project and proposal development. This will include being the key point of contact for intelligence on funders, partners and potential funding opportunities, and ensuring intelligence derived from Asian countries is shared with the global DO team.
About You
The ideal candidate will have experience of proposal development and fundraising, including leading ad-hoc teams towards the development of successful proposals. You will have experience of managing relationships with and managing funding from major government aid agencies and/or international foundations/trusts and in donor grants reporting. Candidates with experience or knowledge of Asian funding landscape would be a significant advantage.
You will possess strong communication skills, fluency in written and spoken in English and willing to work in a multi-country and multi-cultural environment. In addition to this, you will possess excellent reporting and writing skills and analytical skills.
The ideal candidate will have strong ability to prioritise, multi-task, and work well under pressure to meet deadlines. Preferably Postgraduate’s degree in international development, business/management or equivalent or Bachelor’s degree holder with relevant experience. You will have good knowledge of development funding environment, for example with major government aid agencies, preferably including European funding and/or international foundations and trusts and good understanding of budgeting in an international development context.
The starting salary on offer for this role is from INR 1,282,020 – INR 1,466,532 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 United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Due to COVID19, conflict in Ukraine and climate change, malnutrition and hunger have worsened significantly since 2019, reversing a decade of progress. There is growing recognition that our food systems need to change if we are to reverse these trends.
GAIN’s Strategy aims to transform food systems to make healthier diets from sustainable food systems accessible to all people and especially those whose are most vulnerable to shocks. By 2027, we aim to improve the access of 1.5 billion people to nutritionally enhanced staple foods, improve the access of 25 million people to healthier diets, and support positive food system change in 10 countries. This is bold and complex, and the only way to achieve this is to work together with partners including governments, businesses, and civil society at the country and global level. These goals, and the ways of achieving them, build on our twenty-year legacy of transforming people’s lives with improved nutrition through concerted action and effective policy change.
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 and have the existing right to live and work in the New Delhi, India region to be eligible to apply for this position.
This advert closes on 18th October 2024. 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.