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Posted 5 years ago |
Humanitarian Supply Chain Manager is needed at Save the Children Nigeria
JOB TITLE: Humanitarian Supply Chain Manager
LOCATION: Maiduguri, Borno
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Child Safeguarding
- Level 3. The responsibilities of this post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children and young people. In the overseas context, all posts are considered level 3.
- As part of these responsibilities the post holder will support the establishment of child safeguarding systems, promote a culture of keeping children safe, and ensure that potential harm to children (by our own staff and/or as a result of how we do our work) is identified and addressed on an ongoing basis
- The post holder should report and respond to interventions as determined by position related responsibilities identified in the Child Safeguarding Policy.
Role
- This role will lead or manage the setup and scale-up of all emergency response logistics functions and responsibilities and will manage logistics staff. This role will support the Response Team Leader and the Head of Supply Chain and other members of the senior management team on the best use of Save the Children’s resources.
- The role includes logistics support with a broad spread of programmes, staffing, thematic interventions, and complexity
- As such, the role may include remote management, management of multiple field bases or direct line management of a large single project or function
- The post-holder will learn lessons from each assignment to help improve future practice.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential:
- Significant prior NGO experience over 5 years in logistics management, within a complex / large scale country programme and in emergency response / humanitarian environments
- Substantial experience in all technical areas of logistics operations including procurement, transport/distribution, warehousing and stock management, fleet management, asset management, communications, and security
- Experience of developing / implementing a complex international supply chain to support different types of programmes, and coordinating resources to meet the programme objectives
- Experience of working in remote field bases with limited infrastructure
- Proven track-record in managing and supervising others in logistics, including training and capacity building
- Ability to synthesize and analyze complex information, and make clear, informed decisions
- Experience of advising and supporting others at all levels with logistics aspects of a programme, including strategic thinking and planning
- Ability to build relationships quickly with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
- Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities.
- Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English with experience in managing multicultural teams
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Job Features
Job Category | Manager |
Deadline | 7th April, 2020. |