Project Manager, Food System & Climate Change Adaptation

About the Role

The Project Manager, Food System and Climate Change Adaptation provides functional, technical and managerial leadership to projects and teams in the thematic area of CALL (Climate Action at Local Level) project.

The post holder will be responsible for leading a high performing cross-functional project team and establishing, managing and maintaining relationships with relevant partners and stakeholders. They are responsible for the overall project management leadership and ensure the project team implement project activities within approved plans, budget, and quality standards.

The Project Manager, throughout the project life cycle, ensures accurate planning, management and reporting of activities, budgets (resources), monitoring, external services and any other key areas required to deliver successful projects.

They will work under the supervision of the Portfolio Lead of Drivers of Food Systems Transformation (DFST) and in coordination and aligning with the global and country leadership teams.

The role is based in our Dhaka, Bangladesh office. This is a 2 year Fixed Term Contract.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Provide strategic leadership in the design, planning and implementation of the project as per the GAIN Project Management Guidelines (PMG).
• Define project scope, activities and objectives in line with the GAIN business plans, programme frameworks, and organizational strategic priorities
• Responsible for consulting and/or communicating on any change requests or course corrections.
• Identify, track and resolve project issues on an ongoing basis, and proactively seek support where issues require wider attention and resolution.
• Lead a high performing project team consisting of people across the organisation; bringing together the skills, experience and competencies required for successful project delivery.
• Build a positive and inclusive culture and working environment for the staff to carry out their activities.

About You

The postholder will have excellent project management skills that revolve around food systems transformation and climate change adaption.

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrable track record of working with a number of high level stakeholders delivering tangible results that have made a difference internally and externally.

You will have the ability to lead, motivate and guide a team whilst working in complex and diverse environments.

Key attributes include:

• Good interpersonal, influencing and communication skills.
• Diplomacy, tact and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of current global and local (Bangladesh) food system, climate hazard & its implication, nutrition service governance and socio-economic demography.
• Computer literacy with good Excel, MS Word, Outlook, and Power Point skills.

About our Offer

The starting salary on offer for this role is from BDT 2,467,308 – BDT 2,821,272 per annum (gross salary), depending on experience.

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.

About GAIN

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.

Our Working Culture and Environment

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 be currently based and have the existing right to live and work in the Dhaka, Bangladesh region to be eligible to apply for this position.

This advert closes on 21st March 2025. 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.