Overview
Manage the Supply section, ensuring supply chain service delivery and emergency response, and collaborating with programme sections and implementing partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish annual work plans for the Supply section and monitor progress.
- Supervise and coach section staff, ensuring performance management and capacity building.
- Ensure operational capacity for CO supply chains, including staffing and third-party contracting.
- Participate in Country Programme Action Planning and advise on supply requirements.
- Analyze supply spend and establish procurement strategies.
- Ensure timely customs clearance, warehousing, and inventory management.
- Develop emergency supply & logistics strategies and preparedness plans.
- Provide technical and advisory support to government/national systems.
- Contribute to pilots and roll-out of new products and services.
- Plan, manage, and coordinate construction and rehabilitation works.
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for vaccine and cold chain supply chain management.
- Contribute to Country Office planning aligned with UN80.
Required Experience
- A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience, at the national and international levels, in supply, logistics, procurement, contracting, administration and/or other directly-related technical fields is required.
- Understanding of development and humanitarian work.
- Emergency experience an advantage.
- Health supply chain management experience an advantage.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
Qualifications
- An advanced university degree is required in Business Administration, Management, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Procurement, Contract/Commercial Law, International Development, Health or related social science field, or relevant first-level university degree (Bachelor’s) in conjunction with a valid relevant professional certification is required.
- A first level university degree (Bachelor's) in a relevant technical field, in conjunction with ten (10) years of relevant work experience in supply, logistics, procurement, contracting, administration and/or other directly-related technical field, may be taken in lieu of an advanced university degree.
