Around 3.5 billion people - half the people on the planet today - are malnourished. Each year, malnutrition kills 3.1 million children under the age of five and leaves 161 million stunted, trapping generations in lives of poverty and unfulfilled potential. The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is focused on finding solutions to end malnutrition within our lifetimes.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is leading a multi-stakeholder consortium to implement an initiative, aiming to creating dignified and fulfilling work for Nigerian youth under 35 years across agrifood value chains. The programme specifically aims to reach and benefit young women, persons with disabilities and internally displaced persons.
GAIN is seeking to recruit a Manager, Programme Quality & Impact (PQI) to ensure programme delivery is high-quality, results-driven, ethically executed, and operationally coherent across all partners and states.
The role leads Organizational Capacity Assessments (OCA), partner performance and delivery, risk management, quality assurance, and quality improvement processes. By strengthening systems, reducing inefficiencies, and driving accountability across implementing partners and programme teams, the Manager, PQI ensures that programme consistently transforms evidence into action, performance into learning, and resources into demonstrable impact. This role will be offered on a two (2) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Abuja, Nigeria.
Key Responsibilities include.
- Develop and enforce the programme Quality Standards Framework, including SOPs, performance benchmarks, QI systems, guidance notes, operational protocols, tools, and checklists in close collaboration with the Technical Integration Manager and Project Manager to ensure harmonized, high-quality delivery across all partners and components.
- Conduct periodic quality and compliance audits to identify inefficiencies, deviations, or bottlenecks affecting delivery or cost-effectiveness.
- Lead programme risk management, ensuring early detection of operational, financial, and reputational risks and timely mitigation. Lead value-for-money (VfM) analysis, examining economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and equity across programme interventions.
- Support the development and deployment of the programme MIS and lead capacity strengthening for programme team and partners to ensure consistent, high-quality use of the system for reporting, data protection, compliance tracking, and performance management
- Lead the continuous improvement cycle, converting evidence and performance insights from Programme Monitoring and Improvement (PMI) evaluation, partner reports into structured improvement actions and effective interventions.
- Define and track programme quality and effectiveness indicators, including delivery timeliness, implementation fidelity, partner performance, and efficiency metrics.
- Lead the full OCA process for implementing partners and government stakeholders, assessing systems, performance, and operational efficiency.
- Ensure the programme MIS is fully embedded in programme reporting workflows and supports accurate documentation, quality assurance, and timely performance insights across components
About you
- The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in programme quality management, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and adaptive management within complex, multi-stakeholder development or humanitarian programmes. Proven experience leading Organizational Capacity Assessments (OCAs), capacity strengthening initiatives, quality audits, compliance reviews, and risk assessments is required.
- You should possess significant experience in designing and institutionalizing programme quality frameworks, performance monitoring systems, and learning platforms across multiple projects, sectors, or geographic locations. Hands-on experience using digital data and analytics platforms (e.g., Power BI, SurveyCTO, CommCare, KoboCollect, DHIS2, Salesforce, NVivo etc), with the ability to interpret and visualize complex datasets for management decision-making.
- Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, Data Management or related field is required.
About our offer
The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from NGN 17,200,128 - NGN 19,666,488 gross per annum, depending on experience.
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