Project Coordinator, Healthy School Food Environments

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Project Coordinator, Healthy School Food Environments

Global Alliance For Improved Nutrition (gain)

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Kampala

Contract & Temporary

Government

Confidential

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Language Requirement

English

Work Type

Contract & Temporary

Working Hours

8 to 5

Applicant Location

Uganda

Job descriptions & requirements

About The Role

GAIN is seeking to recruit a Project Coordinator, Healthy School Food Environments to ensure the day-to-day operational delivery, implementation, and monitoring of the project, specifically focusing on quality and timely execution of project activities. The coordinator will support building and maintaining of relationships with partners and stakeholders and implement interconnected workstreams spanning school meal supply chains, food environments, adolescent behaviour change, policy engagement, and environmental integration, coordinating across government, private sector, and civil society partners.
This role will be offered on a 14-month fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Kampala, Uganda. This advert closes on 20th October 2026. 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.

Key Responsibilities Include.

• Support the Project Manager in ensuring that all four project components - school meal menu improvement, food education and environments, market linkages, and policy engagement - function as an integrated package.
• Identify and maximize environmental co-benefits — working with the project team and partners to advance approaches that reduce environmental impact while supporting sustainable production and value chains for nutritious foods, and monitoring and reporting on those approaches
• Coordinating with millers, vegetable vendors, and MSMEs to formalize supply agreements and embed nutrition quality specifications into school procurement processes.
• In liaison with the Project Manager, supporting the contextualization and rollout of the Heroes Journey food education initiative within Ugandan schools.
• Under the guidance of the project manager, supporting the establishment and ongoing maintenance of healthy food zones and canteen standards in and around pilot schools in a sustainable way, coordinating with school authorities and relevant local government bodies.
• In collaboration with the Project Manager, maintain regular engagement with MoES, KCCA and other relevant local authorities to advance project objectives.
• Facilitating accurate project budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring that activities costs are kept within budgets.
• Support the Project Manager in developing Terms of Reference (ToRs) for project consultants/suppliers hired on a short-term basis.