Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 21 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose
The purpose of this position is to support transport, warehouse, and CBT operations to effectively deliver food assistance to beneficiaries. The position reports to the National Logistics Officer.

Key Accountabilities (Not All-Inclusive)
Transport Operations:
1. Provide specialized support to logistics operations and activities, following standard processes and contributing, directly or indirectly, to the effective delivery of food assistance to beneficiaries.
2. Coordinate requisitioning and ensure timely delivery of commodities and supplies to authorized partners and destinations.
3. Manage logistics vendors’ contracting activities, including performance monitoring and measurement.
4. Support gathering market intelligence and vendor assessments (e.g. transporters, retailers) to support vendor selection.
5. Support oversight for commodity accounting data quality and integrity.
6. Perform research, collect data and conduct analysis, produce reports (e.g. CSC, financial closure, physical inventory, transport performance) and ensure information accuracy in corporate systems to enable informed decision-making.
7. Supervise the work of support staff, providing practical advice and guidance to ensure individual and team objectives are delivered to agreed standards and deadlines for all assistance modalities.
8. Support logistics emergency preparedness and response activities, including Logistics Capacity Assessment and Contingency Plan update, to support WFP’s emergency response.

Warehouse Operations:
1. Responsible for effectively planning and managing warehouse operations to ensure safe and efficient warehousing and storage of all commodities and supplies.
2. Contribute to the review of WFP corporate warehouse standards and procedures to support efficiency and changing business needs.
3. Coordinate the receipt/dispatch of commodities to ensure accurate recording, accounting, and reporting is always available to support decision-making.
4. Responsible for the accuracy of warehouse transaction records, including identification of discrepancies, to ensure immediate and accurate reporting on commodity movements in line with the corporate requirements.
5. Responsible for inventory management (e.g. physical stock verification, reporting, etc.), to ensure any existing and developing issues with regards to proper stock management are timely addressed, and WFP standard procedures for commodity handling and storage are strictly followed.
6. Supervise the preparation of regular and ad hoc reports and statistics on warehouse operations to support informed planning and decision-making.
7. Oversee safeguarding of commodities through providing guidance on and taking initiative towards implementing preventive measures to ensure that commodities are preserved in good condition and that quality control actions are initiated as appropriate following WFP established procedures.
8. Review on periodic basis warehouse space availability, plan and implement new design layouts to support business needs and ensure cost-efficiency.
9. Work with internal and external stakeholders to deliver aligned and coherent warehouse services. 10. Identify training needs and efficiently plan training to ensure all staff have the required knowledge and skills to carry out their responsibilities.
10. Supervise warehouse staff to ensure high-performance standards

Purpose
• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
• Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
• Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
• Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.

People
• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
• Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
• Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

Performance
• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
• Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
• Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
• Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.

Partnership
• Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
• Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
• Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
• Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfill the needs of internal and external partners.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

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