Overview
The role involves supporting UNICEF's cross-border operations in Sudan through efficient inventory and pipeline management within the Logistics and Supply Section.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide input and advice on Pipeline from Corridor.
- Participate in forecasting, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of supply chain operations.
- Support supply emergency preparedness and response activities.
- Conduct market research for logistics cross-border operations.
- Liaise with Chad Supply team to ensure establishment of Long-Term Arrangements (LTAs).
- Provide logistics input into distribution plans.
- Liaise with supply colleagues and clients to ensure pipeline monitoring.
- Perform research, collect data, conduct analysis, and produce reports.
- Provide specialized support in logistics.
- Identify needs for contracting of logistics third party services and manage contracting.
- Manage documentation processing for logistics operations.
- Manage UNICEF warehouse facilities and operations.
- Maintain warehousing and inventory management processes.
- Organize and operationalize distribution plans.
- Assess availability of space and prepare stacking and storage plans.
- Supervise receipt of consignments and dispatch of supplies.
- Account for inventory status from source to beneficiary.
- Carry out regular physical counts of inventory.
- Prepare documentation for commodity disposal.
- Participate in events/meetings to build partnerships with UN organizations.
- Identify opportunities for capacity building of Partner counterparts.
- Support the capacity building of staff on procurement processes and procedures.
- Document lessons learned and best practices.
- Contribute to knowledge management within the Supply section.
- Ensure timely and effective management performance of staff if managerial responsibility exists.
- Ensure knowledge exchange and learning is prioritized.
Required Experience
Minimum of two (2) years of progressively responsible professional work experience in the field of Supply chain and logistics.
Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in one of the following fields is required: supply chain, business administration, contract/commercial law, or another relevant technical field.
