Logistician in Emergencies - Deployment Roster at Plan International

Req ID: 22708
Location: Nigeria
Reports to: Emergency Response Manager

Emergency Roster

• The Emergency Roster is a database of pre-selected deployable internal and external candidates who have the appropriate skills and experience to support emergency preparedness and response. It also stores information on these candidates.
• The purpose of the roster is to ensure that we have the right people in the right place and the right time with the right skills.
• Roster Members are expected to deploy to an emergency response within 72 hours or once an entry visa is received.
• A Roster Member is selected from the Emergency Roster as and when a roster request is received from one of our country offices.

Key Tasks
Key Tasks may include:

• Providing supply chain technical support within emergency response settings, including the assessment, design, start-up, budget management, and implementation of emergency supply chain activities for multiple projects.
• Contributing to coordination and reporting, including Logistics Cluster engagement and civil-military liaison in an emergency response.
• Supporting the rapid scale of procurement activities, including the identification of international and local sourcing options, management of downstream supply pipeline, contracting of goods, services and works suppliers, and liaising with IH procurement team, whilst at all times providing assurance, implementation and appropriate controls.
• Overseeing or supporting inventory and warehouse management across multiple projects, including GIK management which may include setting up of temporary warehouses and transit hubs, renting of warehousing space, contingency stock management and the receipt of donations.
• Overseeing or supporting, fleet management and transport operations for emergency response in conjunction with Logistics Manager including co-ordinating with existing country office operations to identify needs, acquire and utilise a variety of modes to meet the emergency response requirements needs, safely and effectively.
• Coordinating or supporting asset management for all emergency response assets, including donor liaison, disposal plans asset verification and compliant purchasing.
• Working with colleagues to coordinate and support emergency response distributions, including multi-partner planning, site set up, security, local authority liaison and material resource planning.
• Assist in providing technical expertise to troubleshoot operational issues, training of local staff and gap filling logistics and procurement staffing gaps.

Knowledge, Experience, Skills and Behaviours Required to Achieve Role’s Objectives

• Experience of providing significant contributions to supply chain implementation within emergency response settings.
• Technical background across all aspects of logistics and supply chain management, including procurement, warehousing, fleet management and humanitarian distributions.
• Good knowledge of multiple Institutional Donor Grant requirements, including experience with proposals, implementation, technical advice, reporting across procurement, assets management, fleet, inventory management and distributions.
• Experience and knowledge of humanitarian supply chain management.
• Good negotiating and influencing skills to achieve operational outcomes, applying a breadth of approaches, styles and techniques to achieve desired outcomes.
• Good people management & interpersonal skills (role model in motivating, developing and supporting others).
• Effective communicating and collaborating across cultural, geographical and structural boundaries, engaging positively and constructively with colleagues.
• Project management and organisational skills, results oriented and comfortable making decisions and taking appropriate risks.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working internal relationships.
• Positive, constructive and solutions focused, comfortable working with high energy and positivity even in the face of challenging situations.
• Knowledge and experience of working with an ERP (e.g. SAP) or other supply chain management IT solution would be an advantage.
• Demonstrable understanding of, and commitment to humanitarian principles, humanitarian response work and child protection standards.
• Demonstrable understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, gender and diversity.

Level of Contact with Children

• Mid Contact:  Occasional interaction with children.