Programme Coordinator, Nutrient Enriched Crops

**Location**

New Delhi, India

**Salary**

From INR 1,165,476 - INR 1,333,212 per annum (gross salary), depending on experience.

**Contract Type**

Fixed Term

**Duration**

24 Months

**About the Role**

Reporting to the Programme Lead, Nutrient Enriched Crops, you will support the formulation and implementation of effective strategies for farmer mobilization and higher uptake of the program components among the target communities.

The Programme Coordinator will be responsible for the day-to-day operational delivery, implementation, and monitoring of the project, specifically focusing on tracking the progress and status of project activities, which relate to farmer’s mobilization, collectivization, implementation of the agricultural program activities, and rationalization of context specific good agronomic practices. You will also play a coordination role in GAINs cross-functional project teams and supporting the consolidation of relationships with partners and stakeholders.

The postholder will be responsible for liaising with stakeholders within their assigned project components and ensuring that project outputs and activities are successfully implemented within approved plans, budget, timeline, and quality standards.

**Key Responsibilities include**
- Creating linkages between farmers, seed systems and agro dealers for farm inputs and tools
- Implementing digital tools working with farmers, agrodealers and aggregators e.g. farmers registration digital tools, crop/seed traceability tools and other digital agriculture services such as agricultural extension and digital financial services
- Supporting initiatives on connecting farmers to markets, e.g. aggregators, retailers, wholesalers food processors and other traders
- Managing the project schedule, activity plan and planning milestones, supporting the tracking of progress and deliverables from project partners and implementing countries
- Coordinating and scheduling project review meetings at regular cycles and preparing documentation of findings and recommendations in PRISM (GAIN’s Project Information System Management)
- Helping the project manager to monitor risks and develop contingency plans to respond to emergencies. Making an assessment and reviewing the status of projects and providing recommendations to the project manager on approaches and procedures for project implementation
- Building strong partnerships with civil society, INGOs, government entities, private sector and other organizations
- Developing appropriate narrative reporting and financial accounting documentation for the Project Manager’s review in order to meet GAIN and donor’s requirements
- Facilitating accurate project budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring that activities costs are kept within budgets.
- Ensuring timely monthly project reporting on program progress achieved, program plans, changes in direction and challenges encountered

**About You**

A Bachelors’ degree in business management, international relations, sustainable development, economics, development studies, agricultural sciences, peace and conflict studies or related field is required. You will be IT literate with excellent MS Office skills and with advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages and experience in handling of web-based management systems.

**About our Offer**

The starting salary on offer for this role is from INR 1,165,476 - INR 1,333,212 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 ach