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Warehouse-Supply Chain Assistant

TITLE:  Warehouse-Supply Chain Assistant TEAM/PROGRAMME: South Sudan Country Office Program Operations-Team LOCATION: Juba South Sudan GRADE: 5

CONTRACT LENGTH: (8 months with possibility of extension)

 

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: (select only one)

Level 3:  the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting the country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

 

ROLE PURPOSE: The Supply Chain Assistant will provide overall day-to-day management responsibility support for the administrative, logistics, and transport of the Country Office Supply Chain Department (Warehousing).  

 

The Supply Chain Assistant has the responsibility of ensuring the stock at the transit warehouse is managed in line with the stock management guidelines and that records are properly maintained.

 

S/he will also support the Country office in managing administrative functions including office management, security property management, stores, and other related support functions. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

 

Reports to: Warehouse Coordinator 

Staff reporting to this post: None

Direct:

Indirect : 

Budget Responsibilities: None

Role Dimensions: The Role holder will be exposed to suppliers and partners like WFP UNHAS, WHO, UNDP, INGOS,…etc and therefore expected to exhibit high-level professionalism while representing SCI.

  1. KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY : 

Warehousing

  • Ensuring that all incoming and outgoing stock is controlled according to SCI procedures and that all appropriate paperwork is in place.
  • Making proper arrangements for receiving and dispatching commodities
  • Ensuring that regular stock reconciliation is carried out and any discrepancies are properly investigated and reported to the budget holders.
  • Ensuring that all incoming and outgoing stock that are targeted for beneficiary distributions and program use and all GIK are captured into TIM by the Supply Chain Assistant 
  • Endorsing for approval stock movements that have been captured in TIM 
  • Ensuring that stock in TIM and Physical inventory are properly reconciled and are always balancing.
  • Booking of items with UNHAS and Logistic cluster
  • Managing the causal workers during loading and unloading and ensuring their payment is done on time 

Human Resources

  • To be able to organize casual workers when required at the warehouse, and to provide overall supervision and training of other warehouse trainees and casual labour, and ensure that staff assigned to the various stores, keep records of the items offloaded/loaded at the warehouses.
  • To Assist and coordinate the off-loading of goods on vehicle from or to the warehouse and stacking of the supplies, follow-up tracking of the commodities in pipeline and report to the appropriate personnel. 

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

  • holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values
  • holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

  • sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
  • widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
  • future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

  • builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners, and supporters
  • values diversity, and sees it as a source of competitive strength
  • approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

  • develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
  • willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

  • honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

 

QUALIFICATIONS   

  • Diploma in Public or Business Administration or related Discipline

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

  • 1-3 years of progressive responsibility in Supply Chain and Administration 2 of which are spent in an international development organization 
  • Good organizational and management skills including problem-solving;
  • Good verbal and written skills in English; 
  • Willingness and ability to work in a collaborative and inclusive manner; 
  • Self-motivated and creative; 

Desirable

  • Representational skills; 
  • NGO experience an added advantage
  • Knowledge of the local language spoken in an asset.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience as assigned his line manager.

Equal Opportunities 

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Job Description

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Job description

5 May 2023

24 May 2023 - 20:00 EAT

Worldwide

Programme Operations

Permanent

Full-time

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