Technical Advisor, Nutrition and Food Systems

About you

• Provide technical support to the design and implementation of the GAIN Uganda programmatic portfolio by ensuring the nutritional aspects of the programme are sound and within GAIN’s technical standards.
  
• Engage with government and development partners to contribute to the development of nutrition-related guidelines and policies.
  
• Guide and work with project managers to integrate appropriate nutrition interventions are incorporated into project activities and support quality implementation.
  
• Lead engagement with private sector actors, particularly on workforce nutrition, translating nutrition evidence into business-relevant recommendations and building GAIN's credibility as a technical partner with companies.
  
• Monitor developments in Uganda's nutrition policy landscape, identify strategic entry points for GAIN's engagement, and build sustained relationships with key government nutrition counterparts at national and subnational levels.
  
• Collaborate with the country and global teams to contribute technical input into proposal development ensuring appropriate inclusion of context-specific nutrition technical issues in new projects.
  
• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance of nutritional education materials, standard operation procedures (SOPs) and other operational tools developed by consultants or program teams, ensuring alignment with GAIN’s standards and national nutrition policies.
  
• Provide technical inputs related to nutrition and research methodologies to proposals, reports, presentations, and strategy documents, drawing on GAIN's global research capacity as needed