Asia Project Coordinator, Social Protection

**Location**

Delhi, India

**Salary**

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.

**Contract Type**

Fixed Term

**Duration**

36 Months

**About the Role**

Reporting to the Technical Officer, the Asia Project Coordinator will play a vital coordination role in GAIN’s cross-functional social protection country teams in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan. You will serve as a key liaison supporting country teams in the planning and execution of social protection activities and you will be instrumental in orchestrating monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities for social protection across the region.

This position will also support the alignment of GAIN’s social protection projects in Asia with the global social protection vision and strategy. The post holder will contribute to key project deliverables and, with the support of the global Social Protection lead and country-based focal points, will be tasked with effectively communicating findings to diverse and cross-cultural audiences. You 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**
- Working closely with implementing countries (including field sites) to facilitate setup and periodic monitoring of project activities
- Coordinating content synthesis from GAIN’s Asia countries for the social protection contribution to donor reports and other deliverables, such as case studies, academic articles, and media/social media materials
- Identifying, escalating, tracking, and resolving country-level project issues in Asia on an ongoing basis, and proactively reporting to the global social protection Programme Lead on issues which require wider attention and resolution
- Liaising with relevant environment, gender and safeguarding specialists to ensure that themes are present and relevant in project activities
- Contributing to building strong partnerships with civil society, INGOs, government entities, private sector and other organisations engaged in social protection in Asia
- Representing GAIN’s social protection interests in relevant regional stakeholder meetings and social protection-related advocacy events, as agreed by the global social protection Programme Lead
- Ensuring that activities costs are kept within budgets and timeline, and contribute to identification of course-correction strategies when needed
- Collating and managing multi-country datasets of project indicators and data relevant to donor reporting and knowledge mobilization

**About You**

You will be computer literate with good Excel, MS Word, Outlook, and Power Point skills and will posess advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, including experience in handling of web-based management systems. A Bachelors’ degree in business management, international relations, sustainable development, economics, development studies, peace and conflict studies or a related field is required.

Previous or recent exposure to social protection programmes will be an additional advantage.

**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 UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with both governments and businesses, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious food for all people. In particular, we aim to make healthier food choices more desirable, more available, and more affordable. GAIN’s mission is to advance nutrition outcomes by improving consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially the most vulnerable to malnutrition.

**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.

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