Logistics Officer – Discipline Assist

World Meals Programme (WFP) Job Emptiness

• Place: Logistics Officer – Discipline Assist
• Deadline: March, 06/2024

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CONTRACTUAL INFORMATION

JOB TITLE: Logistics Officer – Discipline Assist

TYPE OF CONTRACT: Worldwide Advisor Stage 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-after-day, WFP works worldwide to make sure that no baby goes to mattress hungry and that the poorest and most weak, notably girls and youngsters, can entry the nutritious food they want.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

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

With the extra scope, assurance undertaking and optimization ETCO Logistics must gear up with all of the required experience, tools 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 total logistics operations, continues to strengthen discipline help operate – making certain the wants of all discipline logistics hubs are well timed addressed by way of sustainability and optimization. 

Below the supervision of the Head of Logistics, the Logistics Officer – Discipline Assist 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 crucial surge capability and discipline 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 discipline operations in order that targets are achieved in compliance with useful methods, insurance policies, and plans.

2. Lead the scale-up and operationalization of the varied logistics initiatives with the intention 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 employees based mostly within the nation workplace and discipline workplaces to implement the initiatives as per the timeline stipulated in collaboration with procurement, engineering, and programme models.

4. Lead the management of country-wide Provide Chain property on operational tools resembling Cell Storage Items, Flospan, steel-cladded MSU, and prefab workplaces/lodging.

5. Conduct discipline help to Logistics hubs and travel to discipline workplaces to offer 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 steerage to handle WFP’s warehouse, deal with stock successfully by means of company programs, and mitigate loss.

8. Liaise with inner 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 undertaking lifecycle implementation for devoted WFP initiatives.

11. Devise monitoring and post-implementation help strategy to make sure discipline 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 undertaking efficiency.

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

14. Plan, set up, and supervise the work of extra junior employees to make sure that duties are achieved persistently with organizational necessities.

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

16. On the finish of the undertaking implementation, have interaction within the project management handover to the Provide Chain useful crew and put together a last report back to doc the undertaking implementation roadmap, experiences, classes realized, challenges, and so on.

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, making certain alignment with organizational objectives and requirements.

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

20. Different as required.

DELIVERABLES BY THE END OF ASSIGNMENT

• Discipline help supplied and enterprise continuation on the discipline enabled
• A correct asset management system is carried out
• NFI procurement and monitoring plan carried out and monitored
• Final Mile undertaking was carried out and scaled up throughout all logistics actions.
• The Bag Marking Challenge continued and have become operational throughout all logistics hubs;
• Warehouse Temperature Management is carried out throughout all MOH health services implementing MAM Remedy actions;
• Accountable Logistics Asset Administration Native Course of Skilled

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

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

Expertise: Not less than 5 (5) years of related work expertise as a Logistics Officer or related job in UN organizations, worldwide and/or nationwide NGOs, Authorities entities, or the personal sector with a deal with humanitarian work.

Information & Abilities:

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

Language: Wonderful information of written and spoken English (proficiency/Stage 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 strategy to conduct resembling fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to WFP’s requirements of conduct and can subsequently endure rigorous background verification internally or by means of third events. Chosen candidates will even be required to offer further data as a part of the verification train. Misrepresentation of data supplied throughout the recruitment course of might result in disqualification or termination of employment

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