The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Policy Officer to provide technical support to the Mozambique Senior Policy Advisor and Nourishing Food Pathway (NFP) MZ workstream 1.1 (WS1.1) manager in ensuring the program delivery, as well as in the delivery of country’s activities related to the Nourishing Food Pathways Mozambique Work Package. This role will be offered on a two and a half(2.5) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Maputo, Mozambique.
This position will provide support to the Mozambique Senior Policy Advisor in its overall policy & advocacy activities implementation so that overall country policy & advocacy milestones and goals are met.
It will also support to strengthen GAIN Mozambique’s policy and advocacy work and its ability to engage with and influence global, national, and sub-national policy processes with food systems approach as to ensure that the policy and advocacy interventions led by GAIN and by its different partners under the country’s policy influencing agenda goals are met.
The Policy Officer will support and contribute to country’s policy, advocacy and capacity building efforts as well as supporting with the implementation of ongoing policy initiatives and those that will emerge during the timeframe of this work position.
This role will work under the management and supervision of the Mozambique Senior Policy Advisor as the country manager for the NFP-WS1.1 and Country Coordinator for the Moz NFP Work Package and will support the implementation of related policy & advocacy activities.
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.
Applicants must have the right to work and be currently based in the advertised country location, to be eligible to apply for this position.