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World Food Programme

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10,000+ employees

🤝 Non-profit

🤲 Charity

📦 Logistics

Non-profit • Charity • Logistics

World Food Programme is the United Nations' frontline responder to hunger. WFP delivers life‑saving food assistance in emergencies and combines emergency response with longer‑term programs to build resilience, support sustainable livelihoods, strengthen food systems, provide school meals and nutrition, run cash and market support, and manage large humanitarian supply chains across more than 120 countries. It partners with governments, NGOs, the private sector and individuals to eliminate hunger and respond to crises worldwide.

📋 Description

• Provide support to logistics operations and activities, following standard processes and facilitating, directly or indirectly, the effective delivery of food assistance to beneficiaries. • Support timely ordering and delivery of commodities and supplies to authorised partners and destinations. • Support management of logistics vendors’ contracting activities including performance monitoring and measurement. • Respond to a variety of technical queries/requests for support, following standard processes, and obtaining guidance as required, to ensure timely and accurate resolution of all enquiries with a high standard of client service mind-set. • Contribute to budget preparation, monitoring, and revision for all delivery modalities, ensuring adherence to relevant procedures and in compliance with corporate standards. • Assist in monitoring inventory management processes to track trends and account for the inventory status from source to beneficiary. • Assist in management of commodity accounting data quality and integrity. • Support operational pipeline analyses, assessments, and operational planning for all delivery modalities. • Process documentation for execution of logistics operations (e.g., customs clearance, invoice verification), take appropriate actions to resolve operational issues escalating various issues to the supervisor. • Collect and compile data, produce and/or contribute to reports (e.g., CCTI, SPRs, financial closure, physical inventory, transport performance) and ensure information accuracy in corporate systems in support to informed decision-making. • Liaise with internal and limited number of external stakeholders to support efficient logistics operations management. • Provide guidance to other support staff, in order to assist them in completing standard tasks to agreed standards and deadlines.

🎯 Requirements

• Completion of secondary school education. • A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable. • 5 Years relevant work experience. • Experience using corporate systems to monitor ongoing shipments, pipeline information, insurance claims, and food stock. • Experience analyzing data (on commodities, funds, etc.) and drafting reports. • Experience in measuring service providers’ performance against set KPIs. • Experience in assisting the preparation of contract documentation. • Experience in providing technical business support in corporate systems. • Fluency (level C) in French. • Knowledge of English language is desirable.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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. • An attractive compensation package.