Senior Associate, Environment - SYS-1201

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Senior Associate - Environment to provide technical support on environmental aspects of Nourishing Food Pathways programme. 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.

The Senior Associate, Environment will work closely with our project teams to ensure screening for their environmental impact using the GAIN Environment Screening Tool, supporting teams to identify and mitigate risks, as well as pursuing potential co-benefits. The position will also build and maintain partnerships with actors in this space and create awareness of successful approaches towards desired environmental impact.

Key Responsibilities include

• Develop and oversee a programme of capacity building activities to upskill the organisation and enhance organisational understanding of critical topics across environment and nutrition with the support of the Lead, Environment and Nutrition.
• Lead work across GAIN countries and programmes to screen projects for their environmental impact using the GAIN Environment Screening Tool, supporting teams to identify and mitigate risks, as well as pursuing potential co-benefits.
• Work closely with to engage senior management on GAIN’s Environment work and manage stakeholders at SMT and Board level.
• In collaboration with Lead, Environment and Nutrition actively contribute to identify new funding opportunities and develop new proposals integrating nutrition and environment.
• Maintain existing partnerships with other organisations in this space and contribute to develop new ones, including proactive sharing of GAIN’s work to green our programmes to enable others to adapt and adopt successful approaches piloted through our projects.
• Develop 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 should have experience providing technical guidance on environmental impact of projects and working closely with relevant stakeholders to ensure actions that mitigate risks or boost co-benefits are implemented. Experience with Food Systems is critical to succeed in this role.  Demonstrated experience with environmental reporting tools, management standards and targets (e.g. net zero, ISO 14001) highly preferred. You should be able to collaborate and provide support to multiple projects.
• The candidate should be skilled in maintaining partnerships within the environmental space where they drive awareness and linkages between nutrition and climate actors.  A track record in project management delivering quality project outcomes on time, and within allocated budget is required. You should be able to collect data and report findings to senior leadership.
• The post holder should have experience in training project teams/group facilitation to ensure effective stakeholder participation and consensus building. An educational background with a Masters’ degree level in environmental science or a related field is required, or equivalent work experience.