Research Advisor, Consumer-focused Research

**Location**

This position is open to GAIN’s country offices in New Delhi, Nairobi and London.

**Salary**

The starting salary for each office is listed in the advertisement below, depending on experience.

**Contract Type**

Fixed Term

**Duration**

24 Months

**About the Role**

Reporting to the Senior Technical Specialist, Knowledge Leadership, the Research Advisor will be a member of the Healthier Diets research unit under our Knowledge Leadership team. You will be responsible for ensuring high-quality design and implementation of research and learning initiatives to support GAIN programming. These programs are aimed at directly reaching individuals with the goal of enhancing nutrient adequacy and improving diet quality. In particular, the position will provide strategic and technical leadership through evidence to inform the design, implementation, and evaluation of consumer-level projects, including those with a demand creation and/or Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) component at GAIN.

**Key Responsibilities include**
- Overseeing and delivering technical advice to country projects and supporting on the integration and development of research questions and methods
- Conducting literature reviews or data searches relevant to food and nutrition issues, as relevant to the projects
- Leading the selection, managing and engaging with key technical partners (e.g., local data collection firms, think tanks) for the high-quality design, implementation, and dissemination of the research
- Leading the implementation of research activities (e.g., surveys, evaluations, implementation research and other assessments) throughout all stages, design (protocol and questionnaire development), implementation (training, data collection and quality assurance), data analysis and reporting
- Leading the development of a learning agenda to strengthen the methods, tools, and resources available for the design, implementation and evaluation of projects (e.g., demand creation, SBCC
- Developing and reviewing reports, papers, briefs, blogs, and presentations related to the research methods and results
- Ensuring the delivery of high-quality technical outputs from external partners and team members by conducting comprehensive technical reviews and collaborating with them to enhance quality as necessary. Collaborating closely with project teams to interpret these technical outputs and translating their implications for project design and/or revision
- Representing GAIN at technical and non-technical events as appropriate. Presenting research findings to stakeholders in country workshops and at scientific or other relevant conferences to facilitate the uptake of results for decision making
- Leading or supporting monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) activities, including working with monitoring specialists to advance the development of standard indicators that can be used for tracking progress on consumer-focused projects
- Collaborating with programmes colleagues (programme services and country programmes teams) and communications teams on development of manuscripts, publications, blogs, white papers, articles, factsheets, and briefs on relevant topics

**About You**
- or middle-income country, in collaboration with local research counterparts.

**About our Offer**

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

- **India**:From INR 2,103,036 (gross) - INR 2,406,324 per annum
- **Kenya**:From KES 4,668,456 (gross) - KES 5,337,360 (gross) per annum
- **United Kingdom**: From GBP 51,396 (gross) - GBP 55,080 (gross) per annum

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. 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 millio