Communications Associate, Food Fortification

**Location**

New Delhi, India

**Salary**

From INR 889,212 - INR 1,017,468 per annum (gross salary), depending on experience.

**Contract Type**

Fixed Term

**Duration**

24 Months

**About the Role**

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a **Communications Associate, Food Fortification (Nutrient Enriched Crops and LSFF)** to manage the internal and external communications plan and activities for the food fortification programme.

Reporting to the Senior Advisor, Nutrient Enriched Crops, you will support the dissemination of the programmes’ lessons, successes, proposed strategies and you will work to heighten the visibility of the programme.

You will work closely with GAIN’s Global Communications team and support the formulation and implementation of communications strategies that aim to increase the standing and awareness of GAIN’s large scale food fortification and nutrient enriched crops interventions with a broad range of stakeholders including government officials, private sector organisations, non-government, media, donors and civil society organisations.

**Key Responsibilities include**
- Working closely with the Digital Communications Manager, Programme Leads for LSFF and Nutrient Enriched Crops, Program Managers, etc., to design and implement the unit’s communication strategy and work plan
- Leading the development and dissemination of content that raises the awareness of the unit’s work (e.g., press releases, videos, pamphlets, publications and articles) with special consideration to the variety of targeted audiences
- Regularly liaising with media outlets to ensure that the appropriate information and messages are reaching the public
- Participating in field visits to document project updates that can be used to develop human interest stories, case studies, success stories, and other communication resources that can be utilized to engage various stakeholders e.g., private sector, policy makers, NGOs and implementing agencies active in LSFF and biofortification etc.
- Strengthening and positioning the digital communications for the program through targeted digital engagement and positioning
- Ensuring that the programme outputs are updated and well covered on GAIN’s digital media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn)
- Building internal communications capacity by providing timely and effective information on key developments and initiatives to programme staff and promoting stronger staff engagement
- Systematically employ monitoring and metric tools for measuring impact, gauging gaps and assisting fine tuning the programme communications strategy and workplan

**About You**

A university degree or above in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Business Administration, or a related field is required. You will be IT literate with excellent MS Office skills with proven experience in using social media platforms, graphic design software and photo and video editing software.

**About our Offer**

The starting salary on offer for this role is from INR 889,212 - INR 1,017,468 per annum (gross salary), depending on experience.

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 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.

**Our Working Culture and Environ