Director of Development and Communications at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

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 are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director of Development and Communications

Location: Nigeria
Contract type: Permanent
ID: SYS-1129

Description 
We are seeking to appoint a new Director of Development and Communications (DDC) who will focus on three main tasks over the initial appointment:

• Creating and implementing a strategy for income diversification including Foundations, and Trusts and HNWIs
• Leading our external Communications team
• Join the Strategic Management Team (SMT) which leads GAIN’s executive management.

Key Responsibilities include

• We hope that in learning about our strategy, reviewing our website - including reading what our staff say about us – and reading this, and our brochure, it will excite you about the challenges and the opportunities of this role.
• For the right candidate, it offers an exciting mix of initial high responsibility for a new area that is critically important to us, supported with strong mentoring, followed by assumption of responsibility for all our resource mobilisation and external communication work.
• You will be a member of our C-suite and therefore exposed to and contribute to all our strategic decision making. 

Qualifications

• A Master’s Degree or equivalent work experience in Development Studies, Finance, Business, Politics, Economics, Public Affairs, or a related field.
• Fluent in written and verbal English – other working languages an asset, particularly Portuguese, French, German.

Skills and Experience:

• Proven track record in an income generation role at management level.
• Solid experience of cultivating and stewarding relationships with Foundations, HNWIs, and other key donors, government, internal and external stakeholders.
• Leading innovative approaches to fundraising, with tangible outcomes.
• Corporate communications, public information, and media relations, with a broad-based knowledge and understanding of corporate communications, public information, media relations, and digital across different audiences, geographies, and cultures.
• Extensive leadership and strategic senior management experience and understanding of working in a multicultural context.
• Team leadership including unlocking the team’s ability to achieve transformative growth.

About our Offer

• The role will require travel and communication across global time zones.
• As an international, multicultural and inclusive organisation, GAIN is willing to consider candidates with the right to work in one of the countries where it has an office, and who will be based at that office.
• The salary is commensurate with the seniority of the appointment and location dependent. GAIN is unable to support visa sponsorship or relocation for this role and candidates must have the existing right to live and work in their country of application to be eligible.

Application Closing Date
2nd February, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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