Project Manager, Large Scale Food Fortification (Kenya)
Large Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) is a cost-effective nutrition intervention which complements other interventions to fight malnutrition. Because it improves the nutrient content of basic staples and condiments that are part of daily diets, it can reach billions of people with essential vitamins and minerals without requiring any change to their behavior. It increases the health and productivity of people and nations, benefiting people all over the world.
GAIN supports Large Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) though providing technical support and training to food producers to improve the quality of fortified foods, supporting governments to establish and strengthen LSFF programs, coordinating multi-sectoral efforts to improve LSFF monitoring and enforcement, improving fortification quality, among others.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project Manager, Large Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) to provide overall accountability for project management delivery and leadership, ensuring that activities are implemented in accordance with approved plans, budgets, timelines, and quality standards. The manager will ensure robust planning, implementation, monitoring, external services, risk management, financial oversight, and accurate internal and donor reporting to enable the successful delivery of LSFF projects.
This role will be offered on a two (2) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Define the LSFF project scope, activities, and objectives in line with GAIN business plans, programme frameworks, and strategic priorities, and lead project design and planning workshops.
- Strengthen the technical and institutional capacity of key stakeholders across the food fortification value chain (including producers, laboratories, premix blenders, and government regulators) to ensure effective fortification and regulatory compliance.
- Ensure effective planning, coordination, and delivery of food fortification inputs, including premix, fortification hardware, and laboratory and diagnostic supplies, addressing supply chain risks that could affect project outcomes.
- Promote and ensure adherence to GAIN’s code of conduct and organizational principles, including equity, diversity, gender, child safety, and staff health and wellbeing.
- Lead on advocacy and accountability initiatives involving private sector leaders such as CEOs, public-sector, third-party advocates, implementing partners and other key stakeholders.
- Supporting government to establish and strengthen LSFF programs; specifically enabling a strategic, systematic, collaborative, transparent and economical regulatory landscape and therefore, improving LSFF impact overall.
About you
You are an accomplished international development professional with demonstrated experience in designing and managing complex projects in nutrition and Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF). Brings in-depth knowledge of LSFF compliance, quality assurance, and impact, with extensive experience working alongside industry and government stakeholders in Kenya to strengthen and sustain effective fortification programmes.
The position holder should be experienced in advocacy and engagement to build accountability, influence policy, and drive collective action. Excellent stakeholder engagement and consensus building skills are critical to succeed in this role. You should have strong project management skills to implement the project within budget, donor timelines and organisational compliance parameters.
Excellent people management and facilitation skills highly preferred. An education background in food science and technology, nutrition, sustainable development or related field is required. Training or certification in food fortification or micronutrient interventions, food safety, quality assurance will be an added advantage.
The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from KES 4,808,508 – KES 5,497,476 gross per annum, depending on experience.
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 and hybrid 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. Working with governments, businesses and civil society, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver healthier diets for all people, especially the most vulnerable.
Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, GAIN has offices in countries with high levels of malnutrition: Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. To support work in those countries, we have representative offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
At GAIN, we believe that everyone in the world should have access to nutritious, safe, and affordable food. Today, one in three people - drawn from nearly every country on the planet - are unable to consume enough nutritious food. We work to develop and deliver solutions to this daily challenge.
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.
Applicants must have the right to work and be currently based in the advertised country location, to be eligible to apply for this position.
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This advert closes on 7th February 2026. 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.
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