Re-advertised – Logistics Officer – (NOA – Ibb)

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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and WFP is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and promotes gender parity as well as encourages qualified candidates with disabilities to apply

GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of Post: Logistics Officer

Grade: NOA

Supervisor: Head of FO

Unit: Supply Chain/ Logistics

Division/Country Office: Yemen CO

Duty Station: Ibb

Duration of Contract: 12 months

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace and stability for populations impacted by conflict, disasters and climate change.

WFP’s emergency response in Yemen is one of the agency’s largest anywhere in the world, and this year aims to provide lifesaving food assistance to more than 13 million people in need. WFP also aims to provide nutrition support to more than 4 million children and women, school feeding to more than 3 million schoolchildren, and livelihoods support to 2 million people.

JOB PURPOSE

To collect, analyze and report on information to maximize efficiency of the logistics operations and activities.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ensure compliance with wider corporate accounting and WFP internal controls. Supervise, manage, and mentor staff by acting as a point of referral and providing them with the required training and capacity building at the field level including Corporate Partners’ storekeepers.
• Safeguard that the food commodities are received, stored, and handed over to the party receiving the food from WFP warehouse in conditions that are both transparent and supported by documentation with full inspection of the process of loading by the representative of receiving party.
• Ensure that accurate and complete accounting, reporting, and internal control systems are properly functioning and that all relevant records are maintained
• Manage logistics operations including all logistics assets to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of WFP cargoes. Ensure that all staff are adequately trained, cross trained and identify any additional training needs to achieve high quality working standards.
• Ensure data is timely captured in the corporate information system, analyze, translated, and shared with the management.
• Perform operational duties in dispatching, receiving, storing, inventory, issuing, and distributing, shipments and record keeping; determine stock items and stock levels; locate and order non-stock items and equipment parts.
• Prepare and expedite releases; inspect commodities received; handle freight claims, quantity shortages, breakage, duplicate shipments, and back orders; advise co-workers of procedures or methods of handling claims for damage, quantity shortages, duplicate shipments, back orders, returned goods, inventory shortages, and other stores procedures.
• Maintain and prepare the service providers’ information for reporting purposes and update their qualitative performance evaluation database, along with supporting documents and Perform quarterly Performance Evaluations and support complete and appropriate documentation.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Advanced University degree in Transport Economics, Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business Management or other related field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.

Language: Fluent (level C) English and Arabic in both oral and written communication

Experience: One (1) year of professional work experience in Logistics (food Stock) for candidates completed master’s degree. Three (3) years of professional work experience in Logistics (food Stock) for candidates completed bachelor’s degree

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Experience coordinating service providers’ contract execution.

• Experience arranging supplier deliveries and the discharge of WFP vessels (rail, air, or sea).

• Experience in evaluating offers and writing proposals.

• Experience in report writing.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

11.06.2023

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• WFP is an equal opportunity employer.
• WFP does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
• The applicant should be a Yemeni national or having work/residency permit.
• Only candidates who are short-listed will be contacted.
• Applications must be submitted online with:
• Use English language only.
• Indicate all your job TOR.
• Indicate clear years of experience with each job (month/year)
• WFP FT staff who are still under probation period are not eligible to apply.
• WFP staff on FT contracts must have completed one year in the current position to be eligible to apply for another FT position.
• By submitting your application, you have read the Terms of Reference for this position and agree that any false, wrong or incomplete information might lead to your disqualification in this recruitment process. (NB: Successful candidates vetted as viable candidates through the application process will be retained on internal roster for a two-year period and may be given further consideration for future similar specific position advertised in the duty station.)

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