Digital Community Associate - SYS-1196

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Digital Community Associate to strengthen and engage GAIN’s online presence through our digital channels. This role will be on a fixed-term contract until December 2026, subject to availability of funding. This position is open to GAIN’s country offices in Nairobi and New Delhi.

Reporting to the Digital Communications Manager, you will lead the GAIN Communications team in social media and digital campaign planning, coordination and implementation, as well as general communications support for the team when needed. You will coordinate and work with other focal points in other countries and programmes and lead on internal communication matters.

• Responsible for leading implementation across all our active channels to maintain and grow strong social media presence
• Advising the digital communications team to include, drafting social media content and uploading content on the GAIN website and social media platforms
• Ensuring the Head of Communications and the team have a good overview of the status of our digital channels and ensuring KPIs are trackable and reached
• Coordinating and leading creation of an internal and external newsletter to facilitate community awareness of activities
• Reviewing and coordinating the production of branded materials, such as fact sheets, infographics, brochures, reports, etc. at programme and country-level
• Producing content for social media, e.g. photos, images and infographics
• Managing the production of branded materials during events – from UN International Days to major GAIN events (different uses – from digital (web & social media) to traditional print)
• Responsible for the running of the podcast, including coordination of all end-to-end production
• Coordinating global and country communications team to include, social media support, digital support, writing content etc.

About You

The ideal candidate will have proven experience in communication roles, preferable with links to social media, branding, marketing, journalism, public relations or related area.

You will posess excellent creativity and writing skills and willing and able to collaboratively with a team and within a multicultural organisation. In addition to this, you will be proficiency in written and spoken English, candidates with working knowledge of French and additional languages will be an additional advantage.

The postholder will possess proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud Programmes (Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator) to create visual content. Also, you will have video editing skills and solid understanding of social media and digital channels.

The starting salary for each office is as follows, depending on experience:

• Kenya: From KES 2,396,196 – KES 2,734,584 (gross) per annum
• India: From INR 978,132 – INR 1,119,216 (gross) per annum

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.

This advert closes on 12th August 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 application timing is limited and will be reviewed on a rolling basis so please apply soon.

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.