Project Officer, Community Engagement

**Location**

Nyamasheke District, Western Province

**Salary**

RWF 15,280,980 - RWF 17,463,972 gross/annum depending on experience

**Contract Type**

Fixed Term

**Duration**

Other

**About the Role**

They will support community-level engagement by mobilizing and working closely with key local actors, including Community Health Workers (CHWs), Early Childhood Development (ECD) volunteers, healthcare providers, and private sector stakeholders engaged in the programme’s core value chains: High-Iron Beans, Eggs, Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF), and the tea estate sector.

Working in collaboration with district authorities and existing coordination platforms, the officer will support the delivery of nutrition-sensitive interventions designed to strengthen local food systems. This includes facilitating community mobilization sessions, organizing and supporting stakeholder training, and promoting access to nutritious foods. This role directly contributes to improving the availability, accessibility, and affordability of healthy diets, aligning with national priorities to enhance household dietary diversity, food security, and child nutrition outcomes through sustainable and locally anchored food systems.

**Key Responsibilities include**
- Collaborate with the Project Manager Community Engagement to support operational delivery and monitor the community-based nutrition activities.
- Work with local authorities, CHWs, ECD Centres, and tea estate communities to implement nutrition interventions at Health center, community, and ECD levels.
- Facilitate participatory processes involving local stakeholders to implement SBCC campaigns and emo-demos ensuring culturally appropriate and relevant messaging.
- Support the Project Manager in designing and implementing activities on tea estates.
- Support the training and supervision of local facilitators and field practitioners on the use of SBCC materials and emo-demo toolkits.
- Prepare monthly updates and organize timely meetings with project stakeholders.
- Support to coordinate and organize time-bound project site visits.

**About you**

You should have demonstrable experience in community-based project implementation handling activities such as community mobilization sessions, organizing and supporting stakeholder training, and promotion activities within local communities. Experience implementing project activities within tea estates combined with knowledge of SBCC approaches will be an added advantage. Experience working with community health structures such as CHWs, ECDs is required among other stakeholders such as SMEs and cooperatives.

The position holder should demonstrate excellent project management skills with the ability to operate independently with mínimal supervision. Good interpersonal skills are required to succeed in this role combined with familiarity with nutrition sensitive agriculture, SBCC or food systems programming.

An education background with a bachelor’s degree in nutrition, Public Health, Foods science, or related field is required.

**About our Offer**

The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from RWF 15,280,980 - RWF 17,463,972 gross per annum, depending on experience.

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.

**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.

Our core values

GAIN is committed to equality of opportunity and to eliminating discri