🚩 Vacancy Announcement n°: JR-833219
📢 Job Title: Logistics Officer, NOB, RB Dakar
✨ Contract type and Grade: Fixed Term, NOB
📧 Duration: 12 months (Renewable)
✅ Unit / Division: Supply Chain Unit
📍 Duty Station: Dakar/Diamniadio
⏰ Closing date: 26 June 2024
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The Regional Bureau Dakar (RBD) provides policy guidance, technical support, and oversight for operations in 19 countries west and central Africa where WFP’s efforts contribute towards the eradication of hunger and malnutrition. The region covered, extends from Mauritania to Chad and along the coast from Cameroon to Senegal. The West Africa Regional Bureau (RBD) is based in Dakar and provides strategic guidance, technical support, and direction to country operations in these countries.
The logistics unit at RBD oversees coordinating West Africa landside logistics contracting including port operations, warehousing, stevedoring, and handling. Additionally, the logistics team provides surge support to operations in the region as and when needed by deploying its own logistics officers. In the last couple of years, the logistics unit has been instrumental in adjusting the WFP corridors networks to a rapidly evolving situation in the region resulting from civil unrest or political events, new corridors have been opened such as Lomé- Burkina – Niger, Chad via Libya, Burkina Faso via Cote d’Ivoire, or Ghana. Last, the Logistics unit carries out oversight missions to COs and provide operational and strategic guidance to COs.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
To contribute to daily planning and coordination of WFP logistics operations including monitoring of services provided by contracted external organizations to ensure cost-effective operations and that set objectives are achieved in full.
MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under the direct supervision of the Regional Logistics Officer the incumbent will be responsible for the following.
Education:
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