Overview
The Bor Head of Logistics manages the WFP Bor Logistics Hub and all WFP food operations in Bor, including prepositioning and emergency response. This position supervises logistics teams in Bor, Mingkaman, and Pibor.
Key Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining a high-performing logistics team.
- Planning, organizing, and supervising logistics operations.
- Ensuring timely, efficient, and effective food movements by road, river, or air.
- Coordinating all logistics services, including river port operations.
- Planning and executing food prepositioning operations.
- Establishing relationships with stakeholders for prepositioning.
- Gathering market intelligence.
- Improving warehouse operations and ensuring compliance with procedures.
- Coordinating supply chain plans for cash-based transfers.
- Ensuring quality market analysis and supply chain network mapping.
- Identifying infrastructural improvements and drafting proposals.
- Serving as field office focal point to the CO engineering unit.
- Following emergency logistics preparedness practices.
- Participating in the review of internal processes and procedures.
- Conducting analyses and recommending improvements.
- Contributing to preparedness actions and providing technical guidance.
- Acting in an assigned emergency response capacity as required.
- Deliverables include successful JIT, preps, and logistics emergency response, strong relationships with authorities, met logistics assurance targets, minimized loss, evidence of cost efficiency, staff accountability, supervisory missions, planning documents, and progress reports.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of progressively postgraduate international professional experience in leading complex operations, strategic planning, and food supply chain management in a hardship duty station or emergency operation (for Master's degree holders).
- At least 7 years of above experience (for Bachelor's degree holders).
- Proven capacity in effective relationship building with government and other access stakeholders, private sector, and humanitarian/development partners.
- Experience with emergency operations and multimodal transport (air, river, road).
- Experience with the management of CBT operations.
- Demonstrated experience and success in food supply chain optimization and cost-efficiency initiatives.
- Experience in supervising staff and building national staff capacity.
- Experience in identifying food logistics operational risks and maintaining documentation on emergency logistics preparedness.
- Experience working with interagency partners to assess and coordinate emergency and non-emergency response.
- Experience working with corporate logistics systems (LESS, DOTS).
Qualifications
• 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.
