Logistics Assistant-Warehouse and Asset

Logistics & Procurement

Overview

Manage warehouse activities, ensure accurate stock control, and support GIK commodities management.

You have:

• BA/Diploma in Business Administration, Purchasing & Supplies Management, and/or other related disciplines.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
• At least three years of experience in storekeeping, warehousing, stock control, or related work in INGO.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office software suite.
• Must have knowledge and experience in storekeeping.
• Knowledge in basic bookkeeping.
• Strong communication skills.
• Must be keen on details.
• Flexibility with time to work extra hours when the project requires.
• Strong human relations skills.
• Ability to organize own work and a high value for time management.
• Working with a minimum level of supervision.
• Must have strong build to carry supplies.

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

The Log Assistant, Warehouse & Asset Keeper is responsible to manage and operate warehouse activities including receipt, storage, control, and issuance of supplies and equipment; receives deliveries, coordinating stock, documenting warehouse transactions, maintaining records, and overseeing storage of fixed assets, records the property of the PA/field Office, and conduct inventory and Mainly manages GIK commodities (RUSF, CSB++, and Other) as per Plan International GIK (Gifts In Kind) SOP and WFP warehouse standards. S/he ensures accurate receipt via LESS Last Mile, FEFO/FIFO stock management, Stock reporting, pest/humidity control, and asset tracking to support TSFP achieving >85% MAM coverage with zero stock-outs.

The post holder also plans, organizes, and controls stores /stocks in a professional manner ensuring prompt, efficient and quality service to the concerned units including but not limited to ordering, receiving, storing, issuing, and securing food and non-food items as per the location requirements, contractual specifications and in line with store and fixed assets management instruction.

Required Skills & Competencies (Logistics Assistant)

• Basic knowledge of storekeeping and inventory management
• Basic understanding of bookkeeping and record keeping
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Physically fit and able to handle and lift supplies
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong teamwork and relationship-building ability
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• High level of integrity, honesty, and reliability

The Individual

• BA/Diploma in Business Administration, Purchasing & Supplies Management, and/or other related disciplines.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
• At least three years of experience in storekeeping, warehousing, stock control, or related work in INGO.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office software suite.
• Ability to solve problems, take initiative, and plan the tasks
• Flexibility with time to work extra hours when the project requires
• Must have knowledge and experience in storekeeping.
• Knowledge in basic bookkeeping.
• Must be keen on details.
• Must have strong built to carry supplies.
• Strong human relations skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Good team building and motivational skills.
• Ability to organize own work and a high value for time management.
• Working with a minimum level of supervision
• Honest and trustworthy.

Languages required:

• Excellent English verbal and written skills.

• Knowledge of local language (Afaan Oromoo) will be an asset.

  Safeguarding Children and rogram Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.

• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted,

Location:Wadera -West Guji

Type of Role: Fixed Term, Full Time Contract

Reports to: Health and Nutrition Coordinator

Grade: B2

Closing Date: 28 June 2026

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.

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