Logistics Officer SC8 (Commodity Accounting), Kyiv

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS13 November 2024-23:59-GMT+02:00 Eastern European Time (Kiev)

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ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

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WHY JOIN WFP?

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

  📌 Type of Contract: Service Contract, SC8

  ➡️ Unit / Division: Supply Chain

  📍 Duty Station: Kyiv

  ➡️ Duration: 12 months (renewable)

  🇺🇦 The position is only open to Ukrainian nationals or residents of Ukraine

  Why work with WFP Ukraine ?

  The war in Ukraine has had drastic consequences, both for people inside the country and for those around the world who depend on its food supplies. The war has caused immense suffering for civilians, displaced families, and disrupted supply chains and food production. It has caused one of the fastest forced population movements since the Second World War. Close to 6 million Ukrainians are still living as refugees across Europe, and almost 3.3 million are internally displaced. Many have lost their homes and livelihoods. As food production and supply lines are disrupted by fighting, many families in the east and south of Ukraine do not have reliable access to nutritious food.

  WFP uses a combination of food and cash assistance to support communities affected by the war. This includes working with local partners to distribute food boxes in areas near the frontline and providing cash transfers in locations where people have access to banks and markets to buy food. Since March 2022, WFP has distributed food and cash assistance equivalent to 3.01 billion meals to people displaced and affected by the war.

  At WFP Ukraine, we offer a wide range of benefits and entitlements and favorable working conditions for Service Contract holders. Some of them are:

  ✅ Competitive salaries per job level

  ✅ P ension contribution added to net salary

  ✅ Medical insurance with the possibility to enroll eligible dependents

  ✅ Applicable danger pay (revised on quarterly basis)

  ✅ Annual leave - 30 days per year

  ✅18 weeks of parental leave for birth mothers and 4 weeks of parental leave for non-birth parent

  ✅ 1 day per week remote working option within the duty station (subject to conditions )

  ✅ Accessible premises & reasonable accommodation

  ✅ Learning & development opportunities

  How can you make a difference?

  Job holders at this level are typically involved in analytics and contributions to supply chain activities or contribute to the planning and coordinating field supply chain operations to ensure actions align with an effective and integrated supply chain approach meeting the food assistance needs of beneficiaries and partner service provision requirements.

  ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Act as a role model of the values, principles, and standards of WFP, actively contributing to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment through respectful and constructive communication and holding self and other team members accountable for their actions.
  • Contribute to developing and implementing supply chain plans and procedures on Commodity Accounting, in line with the global WFP supply chain strategy and regional/functional strategies, policies, and techniques, to achieve operational cost efficiency, agility, reliability, and quality and to support national capacity strengthening.
  • Ensure that the monthly Physical Inventory exercise in WFP warehouses is well coordinated and corporate SOPs are duly followed.
  • Make sure that the physical inventory exercise at cooperating partners premises is well-conducted and followed by all involved parties. Communicate the expected stock balance with WFP stakeholders before the inventory exercise begins and organize and agree on CP warehouse visits with WFP Field Officers (FOs) before the physical inventory exercise. As soon as the physical inventory exercise is concluded, ensure that accurate figures are shared with internal stakeholders promptly.
  • Support supply chain projects or day-to-day operational activities in compliance with the established supply chain strategies, policies, procedures, and controls, and follow corporate standards, contributing to quality control, loss prevention, risk mitigation, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Support Supply Chain units and Field Offices on commodity accounting and system technical issues allowing commodities real time tracking and the business continuity. Follow up with HQ in case technical advice is required.
  • Prepare accurate and timely reports or support preparing complex reports, dashboards, and other visual materials on supply chain activities for the supervisor’s review to contribute to informed decision-making and consistency of information presented to the stakeholders.
  • Follow up with all internal and external stakeholders to accurate reflect all corporate system data entries related to stock deliveries to cooperating partners and to WFP warehouses.
  • Build and run reports aimed to check the quality and the timely data entries performed in the WFP corporate system.
  • Perform other duties as required.

    QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

    Education: Advanced University degree, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses in Economics, Supply chain, Business Administration, Computer Cciences, Information Technology or other related fields.

    Experience: At least 1 year of postgraduate relevant progressively responsible professional experience in Supply chain systems, Logistics reporting, Inventory management, ERP SAP.

    Language: Fluency in English and Ukrainian.

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