Job Description
About the role
• The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition GAIN is seeking a Digital Transformation Manager to provide functional, technical, and managerial leadership to the DFQT+ project. This role will balance business, technology, design, and market priorities and ensure delivery of project objectives with the allotted timeline and budget. Their work will aim to ensure increased adoption and demonstrate the financial commitment of key stakeholders to sustain operations of the DFQT+ system.
• This role will be offered on a 15month fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in either one of our offices in Kenya, Nigeria or Bangladesh.
Key Responsibilities include.
• Define project scope, activities and objectives in line with the GAIN business plans, programme frameworks, and organizational strategic priorities.
• Update and expand upon existing Go to Market GTM strategy, including positioning, target segments, channels, launch planning, and growth priorities, and oversee its implementation.
• Develop and execute sustainability plan for DFQT+, including identifying and testing value propositions for key stakeholders, testing their willingness to pay, and managing product costs consistent with projected government and private sector financial contributions.
• Work closely with the Product Owner to ensure that stakeholder requirements are reflected in DFQT+ and that deployment is consistent with the GTM strategy and sustainability plan.
• Coordinate across internal teams product, communications, knowledge management, in-country teams and the consortium to drive implementation.
• Translate product readiness into launch plans and partner enablement activities.
• Lead a high performing project team consisting of people across the organisation, bringing together the skills, experience and competencies required for successful project delivery.
About you
• The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in digital transformation or digital development projects in low- and middle-income countries. Excellent project management capabilities, including managing digital development/Information and Communications Technologies for Development ICT4D activities is required. The position holder should have experience working in international development with multi-country support experience.
• You should possess strong stakeholder engagement experience with ability to build consensus across audiences such as government, private sector and other partners.