Logistics Assistant - World Food Programme

Background

WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status, physical or mental disability.

Organizational Background:

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

This position is open to qualified Somali candidates. Female candidates, in particular, are encouraged to apply.

What will you do?

To implement well-defined standard logistics/supply chain processes and activities to enable effective delivery of goods and services for all delivery modalities.

Provide support to logistics operations and activities, following standard processes and facilitating, directly or indirectly, the effective delivery of food assistance to beneficiaries.
Support timely ordering and delivery of commodities and supplies to authorised partners and destinations.
Support management of logistics vendors’ contracting activities including performance monitoring and measurement.
Respond to a variety of technical queries/requests for support, following standard processes, and obtaining guidance as required, to ensure timely and accurate resolution of all enquiries with a high standard of client service mind-set.
Contribute to budget preparation, monitoring and revision for all delivery modalities, ensuring adherence to relevant procedures and in compliance with corporate standards.
Assist in monitoring inventory management processes to track trends and account for the inventory status from source to beneficiary.
Assist in management of commodity accounting data quality and integrity.
Support operational pipeline analyses, assessments and operational planning for all delivery modalities.
Process documentation for execution of logistics operations (e.g. customs clearance, invoice verification), take appropriate actions to resolve operational issues escalating various issues to the supervisor.
Collect and compile data, produce and/or contribute to reports (e.g. CCTI, SPRs, financial closure, physical inventory, transport performance) and ensure information accuracy in corporate systems in support to informed decision-making.
Liaise with internal and limited number of external stakeholders to support efficient logistics operations management.
Provide guidance to other support staff, in order to assist them in completing standard tasks to agreed standards and deadlines.

Do you meet the minimum requirements?

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable.

Experience:

Five or more years of progressively responsible work experience in the relative business/logistics stream with experience in general administrative work.

Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Somali is required.

Knowledge & Skills:

Experience using corporate systems to monitor ongoing shipments, pipeline information, insurance claims, and food stock.
Experience analyzing data (on commodities, funds, etc.) and drafting reports.
Experience in measuring service providers’ performance against set KPIs.
Experience in assisting the preparation of contract documentation.
Experience in providing technical business support in corporate systems.