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Programme Monitoring and Improvement Lead job at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) | Apply Now
Are you looking for Monitoring and Evaluation jobs in Uganda 2025 today? then you might be interested in Programme Monitoring and Improvement Lead job at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
About the Organisation
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a leading organization dedicated to tackling malnutrition and promoting better nutrition worldwide, with a focus on creating sustainable, scalable solutions to improve the health and well-being of populations at risk. Known for its credibility and impact, GAIN has garnered recognition from governments, the private sector, and NGOs for its innovative approaches to improving food systems and nutrition outcomes. The organization fosters a dynamic and inclusive work culture that values collaboration, diversity, and personal development, offering employees opportunities to work on high-impact projects in a supportive and mission-driven environment.
GAIN has a rich history, evolving from a key player in global nutrition into a prominent organization that partners with governments, businesses, and civil society to drive systemic change. Its innovative business model integrates public and private sector expertise to create lasting nutrition improvements, with a focus on scaling up effective solutions. Operating in over 30 countries, GAIN is a globally recognized leader in nutrition advocacy and action, working with stakeholders at the local, national, and international levels.
Core values such as inclusivity, accountability, and evidence-based decision-making guide its operations, ensuring that all its efforts are aligned with sustainable development goals. As part of its corporate social responsibility initiatives, GAIN is committed to improving global nutrition through strategic investments, partnerships, and programs that address food security, education, and sustainable agriculture. For more information, visit www.gainhealth.org.
Kampala, Uganda
Full Time
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Programme Monitoring and Improvement Lead job at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Job Description
Job Title: Programme Monitoring and Improvement Lead
Organisation: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Salary: UGX 126529380 /=
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.
Duties, Roles 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, Education and Competencies
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 APPLY Button below.
Deadline: 24th September 2025