Global Youth Campaigns Coordinator

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About the Organization

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.

Job Description

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Global Youth Campaigns Coordinator to increase visibility, outreach, and impact of the ACT4FOOD movement. This role will be offered on a 15-month fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in either of the following locations Nairobi, New Delhi, Kigali or Dar es Salaam Tanzania.

The Youth Campaign Coordinator is responsible for supporting the ACT4FOOD movement. The position is responsible for delivering GAIN’s youth leadership initiative through the ACT4FOOD movement and will play a crucial role in coordinating the recruitment, mentoring and training of youth leaders including regularly activities, events and oversight of youth leaders’ collective action campaigns. They will also be responsible for increasing visibility, outreach, and impact of the campaign.

Job Responsibilities

• Organise and coordinate ACT4FOOD campaign activities including the monthly youth leader meetings, yearly retreat and implementation of collective action.
• Deliver the GAIN youth leadership initiative via the ACT4FOOD movement through capacity building sessions and mentoring youth-led campaigns. Adapt the delivery of the initiative based on project learnings and input from youth leaders.
• Ensure alignment of the campaign with GAIN programmatic activities reaching young people working closely with the Programme Lead.
• Build engagement and manage social media profiles for Act4Food to enhance voice, awareness and relevance.
• Develop monthly newsletter and keep A4F subscribers regularly updated of key activities.
• In collaboration with the Programme Lead, develop project summaries, collate lessons learned and draft best practice documents.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• The ideal candidate should have experience mobilising young people for causes related to food or nutrition. Experience in campaign management, especially projects related to and working with youth, stakeholder engagement, youth engagement, public engagement, social media, project management is required to succeed in this role.

• Experience providing support to multiple countries is required since the position holder will have global outreach needs engaging with people from different cultures and backgrounds.
• The position holder should have experience running online outreach and engagement sessions combined with excellent project management skills. The role holder will be expected to interact with stakeholders at different levels of seniority ensuring alignment of the campaign with GAIN programmatic activities reaching young people.

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