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POSTING DATES
Posting Date: 31st July 2023 Closing Date: 22nd August 2023, Midnight (East African Time)
ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The WFP Somalia Country Office in Mogadishu is looking for a Supply Chain Officer to lead its retail operations and market intelligence portfolio.
The WFP offers individuals e-vouchers redeemable at specific retailers and cash that is used anywhere. The Supply Chain Officer will lead a uniquely large retail network typically with $100 million per year in volume, a country-wide market monitoring system, and a growing portfolio of food systems activities. Underpinning this work are far-ranging projects related to digitization, and migration of operations into corporate tools, among other topics. This is a critical role in the operation and entails overseeing a team of staff in the office, area offices, and third-party monitors directly or indirectly.
WHAT WILL YOU DO? (not all-inclusive)
Broadly
- Link supply chain, food systems, capacity strengthening, and social protection workstreams, in line with a range of strategies, policies, and plans.
- Develop strategic partnerships with the government and other organizations, to share knowledge and build capacity.
- Align monitoring, technology, procurement, and other units, on a technical level.
Retail operations
- Manage the onboarding of retailers, renewal of contracts and communication.
- Track retailer performance, with regular shop inspections (RPE) and other sources.
- Further develop a suite of digital retailer monitoring tools and dashboards.
- Undertake field missions to support area offices in managing retail operations.
- Coordinate third-party monitors and others to ensure effective oversight of retailers.
- Deliver occasional analytical reports on retailer performance and other related issues.
Food Systems
- Oversee the food systems pillar in Somalia and co-lead activities.
- Lead food system projects in areas such as agriculture, water, and livestock.
- Design and manage evidence-generation, e.g., value chain assessments.
- Develop relationships with market players to identify opportunities for development work.
- Foster government partnerships and delivery of capacity-strengthening activities.
Market insight
- Lead implementing market assessments, in partnership with other teams (e.g., VAM).
- Maintain and further develop digital market monitoring tools and dashboards.
- Develop proactive, innovative information-sharing strategies to mitigate disruptions.
- Undertake field missions when needed to support local offices in their market insight.
- Coordinate third-party monitors and others to ensure effective visibility of markets.
- Deliver occasional analytical reports on crises and food security.
Supply chain interventions
- Perform qualitative and quantitative analysis to plan market-development activities, like catalyzing cereal chains.
- Contribute to the development of donor proposals related to food systems.
- Leverage ongoing retail operations and market monitoring for food systems projects.
- Integrate ongoing projects like an e-commerce app into food systems efforts.
Collaboration and supervision
- Build the capacity of staff to execute these activities through mentoring, training, and coaching.
- Manage, motivate, and develop a high-performing team and promote career growth.
- Build external partner’s capacity to improve the retail operations.
DO YOU MEET THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATOINS & EXPERIENCE?
Education:
- University degree in supply chain, engineering, math, economics, business, logistics, or a related field.
Experience:
+5 years of relevant professional experience in:
Managing vendors
- Running contracting, performance, and relationship management, and network design at least at a qualitative level.
- Vendor management, e.g., third-party monitoring, software development.
- Change management in the digitization of operations.
Generating evidence
- Developing and maintaining digital tools and adapting corporate tools.
- Remote or field data collection, including managing third-party monitoring firms.
- Analysis of retail and market performance using surveys, digital exhaust, narrative reports and more.
- Mapping supply chains using qualitative and quantitative information.
Informing decision-making
- Developing concise reports that effectively represent critical issues for senior managements consideration in making impactful and strategic decisions.
- Managing dashboards that are meaningful and used.
Shaping processes
- Negotiating logistics processes with binding input from a range of stakeholders.
- Identifying opportunities and challenges for programmatic issues.
Developing teams
- Managing, supervising and coaching teams.
- Experience working in hardship areas, emergency operations or difficult environments is a plus.
- Fluent in Excel and Tableau and willing to learn new tools like DOTS. Knowledge of R and/or Python is an advantage.
Language
- Fluency (level C) in English language.
APPLICATION GUIDELINE
- Create your profile on E-Recruitment, apply and submit your application.
- Please note, the only documents required at this stage is your CV and cover letter.
- Applications that do not meet the above requirements will be disregarded.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- In the UN system, a ‘Consultant’ is a standard contract type for a salaried professional. Consultant level II is often held by junior managers.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- This is an international position and candidates must be a national of a country other than the country of assignment.
- This position is based in Mogadishu, the selected candidate will be required to relocate to take up the assignment.
- The contract duration is 11 months (initial)
