Distribution Officer at Save The Children

Role

• The Distribution Office works with urban and rural communities at the grass root level, stakeholders and partners, responsible for coordinating a distribution team to conduct sensitization, mobilization, registration and delivering technical support and oversight to targeted communities/groups to ensure that food/non-food items are timely distributed to the deserving beneficiaries.

Primary Responsibilities include:

• Planning, implementing, reporting and monitoring food distribution processes and ensuring that food stuffs reach the intended beneficiaries timely and in an acceptable and required quantities.

Key Areas of Accountability
As a member of the WFP-BFSP Team, this position’s role is to:

• Lead distribution team on setting up and executing distributions of commodities to large numbers of beneficiaries in a safe and expedient manner.
• Conduct community sensitization/training on project activities on food utilization
• Select and register program beneficiaries in the targeted areas according to the designed targeting criteria
• Conduct verification of beneficiaries for purposes of minimizing inclusion/exclusion errors
• Ensure a proper distribution layout ensuring good of movement through the process, maintain proper crowd control restrictions and limit situations where too many people are inside the distribution exclusion zone at any one time
• Oversee screening of children Under 5 (U5) for malnutrition using the simplified MUAC screening tape
• Monitor/track delivery of commodities to distribution sites and ensure that the correct quantity of commodities arrive and are of good standards
• Facilitate and document receipts of food items and ensure, where necessary, that proper handover procedures are followed in the distribution to recipients
• Record distribution of commodities to beneficiaries and ensure that such records are properly submitted to the BFSP Commodity Manager
• Maintain an overview of site security and keep team out of harm’s way
• Manage onsite coordination with Civil Defence Corps related to security
• Any other assignments that may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualification And Experience
Required:

• Minimum education TBD by HR team based on Nigeria Context
• Prior experience in humanitarian or international development programming with at least 2 years field experience in Food Distribution/Commodity management
• Understanding of distribution best-practices
• Experience in community mobilization and group organizational skills
• Ability to collect data and compile accurate reports documenting distribution details especially as relates to commodity quantities and numbers of beneficiaries
• Good communication skills with the rural community members, local and traditional leaders, good planning, reporting functions.  
• Understanding of basic risk management practices
• Experience working in a conflict setting
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Desirable:

• Previous experience in WFP, USDA or USAID/FFP programmes
• Understanding of basic nutrition concepts, screening stages of malnutrition
• Competence in Microsoft Office.