Summary
Date Posted: Friday, January 22, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) 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. In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to food and contribute to lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.

Brief description of WFP in Uganda
WFP delivers food assistance in emergencies and works with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. WFP provides life-saving food assistance and livelihood opportunities to refugees in Uganda. In addition, WFP assists the most vulnerable people in Karamoja with food and nutrition assistance. Finally, WFP works with smallholder farmers and links them to markets.
As Uganda strives to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and become a middle-income country by 2040, WFP is also assessing its relevance and repositioning its role in Uganda .

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
• Provide specialized support to logistics operations and activities, following standard processes and contributing, directly or indirectly, to the effective delivery of food assistance to beneficiaries.
• Carry out effective planning and management of warehouse operations, to ensure safe and efficient warehousing and storage of all food commodities and non‐food supplies.
• Contribute to review of WFP corporate warehouse standards and procedures, to support efficiency and changing business needs including Food Safety and Quality management.
• Analyze operational pipeline and contribute to assessments and operational planning for all delivery modalities, to ensure that supply chain requirements are taken into consideration.
• Coordinate requisitioning and ensure timely delivery of commodities and supplies to authorized partners and destinations. Monitor inventory management processes to track trends and account for the inventory status from source to beneficiary.
• Coordinate the receipt/dispatch of commodities, to ensure accurate recording, accounting and reporting is available at all times to support decision‐making. Support oversight for commodity accounting data quality and integrity.
• Ensure timely and accuracy of warehouse transaction records including identification of discrepancies, to ensure immediate and accurate reporting on commodity movements in line with the corporate requirements (LESS).
• Responsible for inventory management (e.g. physical stock verification, reporting, etc.), to ensure any existing and developing issues with regards to proper stocks management are timely addressed and WFP standard procedures for commodity handling and storage are strictly followed.

Job Skills: Not Specified

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND WORKING EXPERIENCE
• A university Degree in any of the following disciplines: Logistics, Procurement, Supply Chain, or any related fields obtained from a recognised university. .
• At least 7 years of working experience in Logistics or Supply Chain acquired from reputable organizations.
• At least five year of experience in warehouse management acquired from reputable organizations
• Experience coordinating with transportation providers and third parties.
• Traceable experience in food safety and quality management
• Experience leading a team of National Staff.
• Experience assisting in project management.
• Experience in preparing and managing budgets.

Job Education: Not Specified

Job Experience: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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