Logistics Officer – Area Help

World Meals Programme (WFP) Job Emptiness

• Place: Logistics Officer – Area Help
• Deadline: March, 06/2024

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CONTRACTUAL INFORMATION

JOB TITLE: Logistics Officer – Area Help

TYPE OF CONTRACT: Worldwide Advisor Degree 2

UNIT/DIVISION: Provide Chain/ Logistics 

DUTY STATION: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

DURATION: 3 months

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Meals Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian company combating starvation worldwide. The mission of WFP is to assist the world obtain Zero Starvation in our lifetimes. Day by day, WFP works worldwide to make sure that no little one goes to mattress hungry and that the poorest and most weak, significantly ladies and youngsters, can entry the nutritious food they want.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

WFP Ethiopia, one of many largest and most complicated operations for WFP globally, is implementing its five-year Nation Strategic Plan (2020-2025). Whereas the majority of operations continues to deal with the rapid short-term wants of refugees, internally displaced individuals and different food-insecure and undernourished individuals, there’s a gradual growth and intensification of resilience and livelihood diversification initiatives on the humanitarian–improvement–peace nexus. WFP Ethiopia is anticipated to answer altering context attributable to security instability, drought, floods, and many others.

With the extra scope, assurance venture and optimization ETCO Logistics must gear up with all of the required experience, gear and staffing capability to make sure the operations are appropriately managed and operational and technical support are supplied throughout the 11 Logistics hubs. 

As a part of ongoing efforts to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness of general logistics operations, continues to strengthen area help operate – guaranteeing the wants of all area logistics hubs are well timed addressed when it comes to sustainability and optimization. 

Beneath the supervision of the Head of Logistics, the Logistics Officer – Area Help and Asset Administration will lead and coordinate the scale-up and operationalization of varied effectivity initiatives tailor-made for Ethiopia operations and help the logistics crew in offering needed surge capability and area help to the sector logistics workplaces, as and the place required, to make sure an built-in and efficient logistics operations.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Contribute to the event and implementation of procedures for logistics area operations in order that targets are achieved in compliance with practical methods, insurance policies, and plans.

2. Lead the scale-up and operationalization of the assorted logistics initiatives with the goal to enhance operational effectivity and commodity management practices inside and out of doors the WFP warehouse up till distribution to beneficiaries.

3. Lead a devoted crew of logistics workers based mostly within the nation workplace and area workplaces to implement the initiatives as per the timeline stipulated in collaboration with procurement, engineering, and programme items.

4. Lead the management of country-wide Provide Chain belongings on operational gear akin to Cellular Storage Models, Flospan, steel-cladded MSU, and prefab workplaces/lodging.

5. Conduct area help to Logistics hubs and travel to area workplaces to supply surge capability and implement enchancment plans.

6. Handle the planning, procurement, mobilization, and tracing of NFIs required for logistics operations and coordinate with the Procurement Unit to plan and buy well timed all NFIs required and utilized in Logistics operations.

7. Implement operational warehouse procedures and normative steering to handle WFP’s warehouse, deal with stock successfully by company methods, and mitigate loss.

8. Liaise with inside and exterior stakeholders, consolidate preliminary knowledge evaluation, and put together correct and well timed experiences to help a WFP-wide view of logistics actions that allows knowledgeable decision-making.

9. Handle the planning and implementation of a coaching plan to coach varied stakeholders and, along with stakeholders, put together an in depth plan for coaching and schedule.

10. Put together budgetary necessities and supply an evaluation of the cost-effective utilization of funds to maintain venture lifecycle implementation for devoted WFP initiatives.

11. Devise monitoring and post-implementation help strategy to make sure area workplaces and stakeholders have the mandatory help to operationalize the options successfully.

12. Outline and personal the KPIs and efficiency monitoring plans to maintain monitor of the venture efficiency.

13. Take part in conferences with varied stakeholders and WFP Administration to current the standing updates of the venture implementation and put together minutes as required;

14. Plan, set up, and supervise the work of extra junior workers to make sure that duties are completed constantly with organizational necessities.

15. Present technical help to the Final-Mile Resolution, Bag Marking Resolution, venture risk register, challenges, and backbone of operational points to make sure steady studying, enhancing, and scaling up the implementation in coordination with Programme Models in different areas of Ethiopia.

16. On the finish of the venture implementation, interact within the project management handover to the Provide Chain practical crew and put together a closing report back to doc the venture implementation roadmap, experiences, classes discovered, challenges, and many others.

17. Act in an assigned emergency response capability to fulfill emergency food help wants.

18. Lead and strategize the decentralized implementation of asset management protocols, guaranteeing alignment with organizational objectives and requirements.

19. Oversee asset management actions throughout 10 logistics hubs, offering steering and coordination to make sure environment friendly and compliant practices.

20. Different as required.

DELIVERABLES BY THE END OF ASSIGNMENT

• Area help supplied and enterprise continuation on the area enabled
• A correct asset management system is applied
• NFI procurement and monitoring plan applied and monitored
• Final Mile venture was applied and scaled up throughout all logistics actions.
• The Bag Marking Undertaking continued and have become operational throughout all logistics hubs;
• Warehouse Temperature Management is applied throughout all MOH health amenities implementing MAM Therapy actions;
• Accountable Logistics Asset Administration Native Course of Professional

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Schooling: Superior college diploma in Transport Economics, Provide Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Enterprise Administration or different associated area, or First College diploma with further years of associated work expertise and/or coaching/programs.

Expertise: At the least 5 (5) years of related work expertise as a Logistics Officer or comparable job in UN organizations, worldwide and/or nationwide NGOs, Authorities entities, or the personal sector with a give attention to humanitarian work.

Information & Abilities:

• Good Understanding of WFP Provide Chain processes, methods, and instruments.
• Information of project management and implementation;
• Information of economic or humanitarian transportation sectors.
• Expertise supervising skilled workers.
• Expertise working with company methods (databases, software program).

Language: Glorious data of written and spoken English (proficiency/Degree C). Information of the native language is an added benefit.

Certified Feminine Candidates and individuals with incapacity are extremely inspired to use.

WFP has a zero-tolerance method to conduct akin to fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All chosen candidates can be anticipated to stick to WFP’s requirements of conduct and can subsequently endure rigorous background verification internally or by third events. Chosen candidates can even be required to supply further info as a part of the verification train. Misrepresentation of knowledge supplied through the recruitment course of might result in disqualification or termination of employment

WFP is not going to request fee at any stage of the recruitment course of together with on the provide stage. Any requests for fee must be refused and reported to native law enforcement authorities for applicable motion.