Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking to recruit a Senior Associate, Policy Engagement, to coordinate stakeholder engagement, advocacy campaigns, and evidence-based policy dialogues to strengthen the enabling environment for youth and women in agrifood systems.
By fostering institutional reforms and multi-sector collaboration, the coordinator ensures sustainability, scalability, and systemic impact of programme outcomes across Nigeria’s policy landscape.
This role will be offered on two (2) years fixed term contract, subject to securing the award and availability of funding and will be based in Abuja. This advert closes on GAIN encourages early applications and reserves the right to close the advert ahead of the advertised deadline if we receive a high volume of interest.
Interested applicants can apply through this link.
Key Responsibilities include
- Coordinate state-level policy engagement to advance nutrition and food systems priorities, working directly with State Ministries, State Houses of Assembly, and relevant agencies.
- Manage partnerships at state level, maintaining relationships with government, development partners, civil society, academia, and private sector actors.
- Represent GAIN in key technical and policy forums, identify collaboration opportunities, and support alignment between state actions and national or global commitments.
- Provide technical input into state policies, sector strategies, and planning frameworks to ensure alignment with national commitments and global frameworks, while identifying strategic entry points for reform and influencing policy processes through evidence-based advocacy.
- Support in strengthening multisectoral coordination by supporting state governance platforms such as the State Committee on Food and Nutrition and facilitating cross-sector collaboration across agriculture, health, planning, and social protection. This includes promoting policy coherence, institutionalizing coordination mechanisms, and reinforcing accountability structures for implementation.
- Contribute to drafting reports, policy papers and briefs, factsheets and other documents which synthesize GAIN learnings, values, and priorities.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply through this link.
Requirements
The ideal candidate will demonstrate an understanding of food and nutrition security policy issues, with the ability to critically analyse policy debates and translate insights into well-structured papers.
The candidate should also possess practical experience in conducting desk research, literature reviews, and broader research analysis, and be able to synthesize complex findings into clear, compelling narratives, including position papers and policy briefs.
The candidate should demonstrate experience in policy research and communication within an advocacy or action-oriented environment, such as an NGO, government agency, or policy institution with a solid understanding of health and food systems.
Strong experience leading stakeholder engagement at state level is mandatory to succeed in this role. You should be a self-driven individual who can operate autonomously with accountability.
Interested applicants can apply through this link.
Salary
The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from NGN 19,666,488 gross per annum, depending on experience.
Application Deadline 10th April 2026.
