The United Nations World Food Prgramme Recruitment

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. We are seeking to fill the Head of Supply Chain Officer position at the P5 level, based in Maiduguri, Nigeria.
Job Description:

Under the general supervision and guidance of the Deputy Country Director or the
designate, the Head of Supply Chain Officer, P5 will partner with the key supply chain
functions to ensure an integrated supply chain approach to meeting the food assistance
needs of beneficiaries.
The Head of Supply Chain Officer will be responsible for the following key duties:
? Formulate and/or contribute to the development of the global logistics and supply
strategies ensuring that operational realities of the service, country or region of
assignment inform planning.
? Define the service, country or regional logistics strategy and policies, in line with
global logistics, supply chain and WFP strategies and policies, to ensure timely and
cost effective availability of the resources required, directly or indirectly, to meet
the food assistance needs of beneficiaries.
? Provide oversight on all matters related to logistics services arising in the region to
ensure compliance with established rules and regulations and assist in the
implementation of corporate standards, with special emphasis on quality control,
loss prevention and cost effectiveness.
? Provide technical advice, guidance and support to country offices and/or manage
all logistics activities and resources within the area of assignment to ensure
compliance with wider logistics and supply chain strategies, policies and
procedures, and provide specialist advice and guidance to WFP’s partners and
governments, building capacity to connect to markets, manage food systems and
deliver food assistance to those in need in highly challenging environments.
? Provide leadership in specific technical areas of competence: supply chain, interagency
services, logistics cluster and air operations.
? Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with key stakeholders in UN agencies,
NGOs, governments and the private sector to share knowledge and resources and
ensure coordinated delivery of food assistance and to support efficient and effective
logistics operations.
? Design and formulate project and budget proposal and concept of operation in
support to WFP food assistance interventions.
? Lead and oversee the negotiation, conclusion, and management of complex
transportation contracts with service providers, including clearing and forwarding,
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port services and the monitoring of their performance in a way that best
safeguards WFP interests.
? Monitor and oversee accurate and timely reporting to ensure wide view of logistics
activities that enables visibility, informed decision-making and consistency of
information presented to a wide range of stakeholders.
? Use market analysis and research to recommend actions to management to
improve supply chain performance.
? Represent WFP with high profile strategic partners to advance and maintain WFP’s
reputation as the global service provider of humanitarian logistics services.
? Lead, motivate and develop large teams of professionals to enable high
performance and promote staff learning and development, oversee the design and
implementation of learning initiatives for logistics staff and the monitoring of
impact of these programmes.
? Contribute to preparedness actions, providing technical recommendations and
guidance and monitoring the management of specific logistics risks to enable WFP
to quickly respond and deploy food and resources at the onset of the crisis.
? Take responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives in all areas of work, to
ensure equal participation of women and men.
? Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency
food assistance needs.
? Other as required.
Qualifications:

Advanced University degree in Transport Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain,
Logistics, Business Management or other related field.Requirements:

Experience:
? At least ten years or more (of which five are international) of postgraduate
progressively responsible professional experience managing supply chain
operations is required.
? Management experience and technical leadership skills in a complex environment is
required.
? Managed supply chain/logistics operations in an international environment is
required.
? Evaluated of performance data, forecasting requirements, inventory and quality
control, freight management and knowledge of UN rules and regulations is
desirable.
? Managed highly complex operations in a conflict or post-conflict environment is
desirable.
Technical Skills & Knowledge:
? Managed complex logistics operations, including coordination with internal and
external stakeholders.
? Experience setting logistics policy goals and measuring operational success against
the goals.
? Defined supply chain strategies on a Country/Regional office level.
? Led complex transportation contracting and operations to support emergency
programs.
? Experience responding to challenging situations regarding air/sea/surface
transport.
? Negotiated supply and transportation arrangements with multiple third parties.
Competencies:
? Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
? Effective action management to plan, coordinate and prioritize multiple tasks;
? Excellent cognitive capacity and problem solving skills;
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? Outstanding teamwork, leadership and interpersonal skills with ability to work
patiently and tactfully with people of different national and cultural backgrounds;
? Excellent partnership skills to build strategic relationships with a wide range of
internal and external stakeholders;
? Ability to gain the assistance and cooperation of others in a team endeavour
through technical leadership in a broad range of operational areas.

Language:
? Fluency in oral and written English
? Intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French,
Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages).
Terms and Conditions
Selected candidate will be employed on a fixed-term contract with a probationary period of
one year and eligible for the Rest and Recuperation (R&R) scheme. He/she will be required
to travel abroad sometime to remote and difficult locations.
WFP offers an attractive compensation and benefits package, including basic salary, post
adjustment, relocation entitlement, travel and shipment allowances, 30 days’ annual
leave, home leave, an education grant for dependent children, pension plan, and medical
insurance.

How to apply:

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