Job Title: Programme Monitoring and Improvement Lead
Organisation: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Salary: UGX 126529380 /=
About Organisation:
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation that was launched 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 those most vulnerable to malnutrition.
Programme Monitoring and Improvement Lead
OrganizationGlobal Alliance for Improved Nutrition Posted11 Sep 2025 Closing date24 Sep 2025
Job Summary: The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Programme Monitoring and Improvement Lead to lead efforts in developing, rollout, and ensuring quality assurance of programme and project monitoring and accountability efforts across GAIN’s thematic, programming and geographical areas.
This position will provide strategic, technical and operational leadership to monitoring and accountability services for all programs and projects and the regular utilization of monitoring data to inform needed program and project improvements, as well as reporting on outcomes.
The role will also be responsible for the setting up of an effective accountability mechanism for the populations we work with.
This role will be offered on a Fixed Term Contract running until end of September 2027, subject to availability of funding and will be based in either one of our offices in Bangladesh, India, Uganda or Nigeria.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of procedures for programme and project monitoring (tools, processes for data collection, consolidation, and utilization), working with technical advisors from the thematic and KL team as well as project staff to ensure feasibility and relevance for programme models and drawing lessons from global best practices.
- Lead efforts to innovate the approaches taken in data collection and consolidation, particularly using digital tools and linking with existing GAIN programme and project management tools
- Oversee the quality assurance of all programme-monitoring related activities.
- Lead the development, training for and roll out of procedures and tools for capturing, managing and utilizing feedback from communities and programme participants ensuring both horizontal and vertical accountability.
- Ensure accessible feedback mechanisms that are low obstacle and accessible for communities and people we work with and for while ensuring a coordinated effort is in place to collect data properly and consistently across the organization, programs and projects in a timely fashion for both internal and external reports.
- Identify and lead opportunities to generate global public goods (e.g., tools, peer reviewed publications, and papers in GAIN paper series, among others), building on evidence of good practice in programme monitoring and GAIN’s experience and evidence.
- Line management of the Programme Monitoring & Improvement advisors who provide support across GAIN’s country portfolio and specific portfolios.
- Ensure a healthy working environment, guidance and support, training opportunities.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate should have leadership experience in the development of programme and project monitoring and accountability overseeing multiple countries.
- You should have a track record of extracting key learnings from monitoring and their application to programme improvement combined with ability to develop and train staff on programme monitoring.
- Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills combined with the ability to present complex information to diverse audiences is required.
- You should possess expertise in monitoring and accountability tools (including digital applications), their practical application across a project portfolio and quality assurance. Innovative thinking relating to data sources and technology solutions.
- Excellent people and project management skills are required to succeed in this role combined with character, initiative and self-drive.
- Experience in research and/or impact evaluation or business analytics will be an asset.
About our Offer
The starting annual gross salary on offer for each location for this role is as listed below depending on experience.
Bangladesh: BDT 3,607,632 – BDT 4,123,476
India: INR 2,934,888 – INR 3,355,596
Uganda: UGX 126,529,380 – UGX 144,542,460
Nigeria: NGN 22,211,484 – NGN 25,364,388
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 24th September 2025
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: no experience required