Apply: WFP Logistics Officer

Deadline: 24 May, 2021

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Logistics Officer.

WFP works to ensure the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Responsibilities
  • Coordinate the change management strategy at regional and local levels, ensuring successful implementation of new service provision solutions and adequate post-rollout support and guidance
  • Facilitate and support the implementation by country office of the service marketplace ecosystem, as well as new digital tools and procedures
  • Establish and lead clear and regular coordination, support and feedback gathering mechanisms with country office focal points to identify and report business and technical requirements and/or issues
  • Lead the preparation and delivery of training and webinars related to service provision initiatives and tools in strict coordination with HQ and in line with the overall change management strategy
  • Ensure first-level technical advice and guidance to country office staff, ensuring service provision activities are timely and consistently managed and captured
  • Prepare accurate and timely data collection, reporting and dashboards to inform on service provision activities, enabling an informed and consistent decision making
  • Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to consolidate preliminary data analysis and disseminate as required
  • Timely detect gaps, delays, and risks in local and regional service provision and address them, as needed, in consultation with RB and HQ stakeholders

Requirements

  • Advanced university degree in Economics, Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business Management, or a related field, or first university degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses
  • Five years, minimum, of professional experience in supply chain and logistics operations, regional food assistance, external service provision, technical assistance, and/or operational guidance in emergency/post-emergency contexts
  • Experience working directly with country office counterparts to provide business and technical support and implement activities, particularly in the RBN
  • Direct experience in implementing WFP activities and guidelines, project management, as well as monitoring and evaluation (desirable)
  • Experience in data collection, analysis, and reporting
  • Experience in budget preparation and monitoring
  • Fluency (level C) in English
  • Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) and/or WFP’s working language (Portuguese)

To apply and for more information, click here.

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