Overview
The Logistics Officer will support the design, coordination, and continuous optimisation of corridor networks serving Southern Africa Country Offices. The position ensures that corridors are managed as integrated networks rather than isolated routes, supports proactive identification of risks and constraints, and facilitates structured, transparent coordination across stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the primary corridor coordination focal point for Southern Africa COs, ensuring regular, structured engagement on corridor access, priorities, capacity constraints, and risks.
- Facilitate corridor-level coordination mechanisms to align CO plans and manage interdependencies across the network.
- Support the application of agreed prioritisation frameworks and ensure transparency and traceability of coordination outcomes.
- Contribute to corridor network design by analysing entry points, inland routes, cross-border nodes, and operational configurations.
- Support evidence-based decision-making by producing and maintaining corridor network analyses that assess performance, bottlenecks, structural constraints, and resilience.
- Ensure that corridor design decisions consider end-to-end performance, risk exposure, and future demand scenarios.
- Proactively identify operational, capacity, access, and systemic risks affecting Southern Africa corridors.
- Support early escalation of corridor-wide risks through GCOS governance channels.
- Track agreed mitigation actions and provide structured updates.
- Act as the corridor coordination interface with Planning & Optimisation, Security, VAM, Procurement, and other relevant units.
- Support the translation of analytical outputs into operationally actionable corridor coordination guidance.
- Contribute to corridor performance visibility products by ensuring accuracy, consistency, and operational relevance of data.
- Flag data quality issues affecting corridor analysis or coordination and support corrective actions.
- Support implementation of GCOS standards, SOPs, and governance frameworks across Southern Africa corridors.
- Contribute to lessons-learned, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support the wider Global Corridor Operations framework by contributing to cross-regional corridor coordination, network design, and performance management initiatives.
- Provide surge and backstopping support to other regions, as required.
- Contribute technical inputs, analyses, and lessons learned from Southern Africa corridors to inform global GCOS products, standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support the rollout, application, and consistent interpretation of GCOS standards, SOPs, and coordination tools across corridors.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in logistics, supply chain, corridor management, or humanitarian operations.
- Demonstrated experience in multi-stakeholder coordination across regional or multi-country contexts.
- Experience with corridor analysis, logistics network design, or performance monitoring is an asset.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Transport Economics, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
- A first university degree with additional relevant experience may be accepted.
