Digital Transformation Project Manager- Digital Fortification Quality Traceability (DFQT+) System Project Digital Transformation Project Manager - - SYS-1307

Location Kenya, Nigeria, Bangladesh Salary As listed in the advert Contract Type Fixed Term Duration Other About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Digital Transformation Manager to provide functional, technical, and managerial leadership to the DFQT+ project. This role will balance business, technology, design, and market priorities and ensure delivery of project objectives with the allotted timeline and budget. Their work will aim to ensure increased adoption and demonstrate the financial commitment of key stakeholders to sustain operations of the DFQT+ system.

This role will be offered on a 15(month) fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in either one of our offices in Kenya, Nigeria or Bangladesh.

Key Responsibilities include

• Define project scope, activities and objectives in line with the GAIN business plans, programme frameworks, and organizational strategic priorities.
• Update and expand upon existing Go to Market (GTM) strategy, including positioning, target segments, channels, launch planning, and growth priorities, and oversee its implementation.
• Develop and execute sustainability plan for DFQT+, including identifying and testing value propositions for key stakeholders, testing their willingness to pay, and managing product costs consistent with projected government and private sector financial contributions.
• Work closely with the Product Owner to ensure that stakeholder requirements are reflected in DFQT+ and that deployment is consistent with the GTM strategy and sustainability plan.
• Coordinate across internal teams (product, communications, knowledge management, in-country teams) and the consortium to drive implementation.
• Translate product readiness into launch plans and partner enablement activities.
• Lead a high performing project team consisting of people across the organisation, bringing together the skills, experience and competencies required for successful project delivery.

About you

The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in digital transformation or digital development projects in low- and middle-income countries. Excellent project management capabilities, including managing digital development / Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) activities is required. The position holder should have experience working in international development with multi-country support experience.

You should possess strong stakeholder engagement experience with ability to build consensus across audiences such as government, private sector and other partners.

About our Offer

The starting annual gross salary on offer for this role per location is as listed below.

Kenya : KES 4,808,508 -KES 5,497,476

Nigeria : NGN 17,200,128 - NGN 19,666,488

Bangladesh : BDT 2,467,308 - BDT 2,821,272

GAIN has a fair and competitive salary structure that allows for annual progression subject to good performance. In addition, GAIN offers a total of 37 days holiday per year (including annual leave, public holidays and additional office closure days), an attractive pension scheme and competitive insurance cover including health, travel and life assurance. We are committed to the health of our staff, especially in these challenging times, and have developed a programme of wellbeing that includes flexible and hybrid 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. Working with governments, businesses and civil society, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver healthier diets for all people, especially the most vulnerable.

Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, GAIN has offices in countries with high levels of malnutrition : Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. To support work in those countries, we have representative offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

At GAIN, we believe that everyone in the world should have access to nutritious, safe, and affordable food. Today, one in three people - drawn from nearly every country on the planet - are unable to consume enough nutritious food. We work to develop and deliver solutions to this daily challenge.

GAIN in partnership with a consortium of eight organizations and together with local stakeholders, developed the Digital Fortification Quality Traceability (DFQT+) system, a cross-sector traceability that enables mills / refineries and authorities to generate, govern, share, and utilize safely accurate and traceable data on food fortification quality within factories and markets, including customs. The product was pilot tested in Bangladesh and Nigeria. The focus of the next phase of work will be on adoption in these two countries.

DFQT+ aims to revolutionize global food fortification by providing an adaptable traceability solution that empowers all stakeholders to ensure the delivery of more nutritious food to every consumer. The country-driven digital solution fosters real-time data sharing, transparency, trust, efficiency, and accountability across the entire food system value chain, enabling healthier populations. Consistent and actionable data on quality of fortified foods is critical to ensuring programmes can reach their potential public health impact. The DFQT+ system enables stakeholders to track micronutrient quality throughout the entire value chain, starting from the initial components and materials—such as premix and micronutrients—down to the final product, ensuring quality is maintained at every stage.

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.

All of our positions are based in one or more of GAIN’s designated offices as stated on our job advertisements. Successful candidates will be based in one of GAIN’s country offices and must have the existing right to live and work within a reasonably commutable distance of the relevant city / cities in which the role is advertised. Please note, that GAIN does not sponsor working visas and relocations.

GAIN reserves the right to withdraw an offer of employment for candidates who are considered to ineligible under the above conditions during or after the recruitment process.

Applicants must have the right to work and be currently based in the advertised country location, to be eligible to apply for this position.