Project Coordinator, Healthy School Food Environments

Description

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.

About You

The ideal candidate will have practical experience supporting the delivery of nutrition, food systems, school feeding, education or related development programmes within Uganda. They should have experience coordinating project activities, working with schools, government structures, community stakeholders and private sector partners, and supporting implementation against agreed workplans, budgets and timelines. Experience in school food and nutrition programming, social and behaviour change activities, environmental or climate considerations, and donor-funded projects is required. A relevant degree in nutrition, public health, environmental health or a related field is required, with additional training in project management or a related area desirable.

The candidate should have good coordination, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. They should be organised, adaptable and able to manage several activities at the same time while maintaining good attention to quality, deadlines and reporting requirements. Good writing and analytical skills are important, together with the ability to monitor progress, prepare project updates, support budgeting and documentation, and identify and raise implementation challenges. The role also requires willingness to travel regularly within Kampala and the ability to work collaboratively with technical, programme and partner teams.

About Our Offer

The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from UGX 63,781,560 – UGX 72,955,200 gross per annum, depending on experience