Overview
To handle receipt/dispatch and verification of commodities to maximize warehouse operations quality and mitigate losses, and to support storage management practices in compliance with WFP standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Effectively receive/dispatch commodities including transhipment against official approved documentation ensuring accuracy in physical count and quality.
- Prepare, verify, and sign off warehouse and transport documents, and maintain confidential files and accurate warehouse transaction records.
- Conduct daily warehouse closing reconciliation and accurate inventory checks.
- Perform daily inspections and prepare reports on commodity quantity and quality, detect and analyse reasons for stock discrepancies/damages, investigate missing quantity and prepare warehouse loss reports.
- Implement appropriate measures to safeguard food and non-food commodities, to ensure quality control using standard preventive measures.
- Monitor condition of the warehouse and commodities and take appropriate actions, to support efficient warehouse space-planning and well-organized commodity storage.
- Provide guidance and on-the-job training to warehouse staff.
Required Experience
- 4 or more years of experience in similar role
- Experience using logistics databases to extract routine reports.
- Experience in managing warehouses with food and NFIs.
- Experience in managing inventories.
- Experience in processing invoices.
Qualifications
Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable.
