Supply & Logistics Specialist (Emergency), P3, MENA Regional Office, Amman-Jordan, for 346 days

Contract

This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 104,359 USD and 136,650 USD.

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, Care

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.

How can you make a difference?

Under the direct supervisor of the Regional Chief of Supply, The Supply and Logistics Specialist will manage collaboration with programmes at regional and country level in defining supply interventions to meet programmatic needs primarily for emergency response, and achieve results for children, and provide technical and advisory support to MENA country offices, governments, national systems, and partners on all aspects of supply chain management.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

1. Management of the Supply Work Plan

• Contribute to the annual work plan for the MENARO Supply team. In consultation with the team determine priorities/targets and performance measurements and monitor work progress in areas related to emergency preparedness and response.

• In consultation with supervisor, ensure establishment and maintenance of operational capacity to handle CO supply chains and contracting of third-party services if applicable (e.g. customs clearance, warehousing, transport, distribution).

  2.Supply chain service delivery and emergency response

• In consultation with supervisor, advise on supply requirements for country office plan of operations and annual work plans, particularly as relates to emergency preparedness. Support the effective procurement of goods, contracting of services and construction works, and establishment of LTAs while maintaining the highest level of integrity, ethical standards, and accountability.

• Support to ensure timely customs clearance of supplies entering countries and working with COs and SD to identify bottlenecks and solutions to streamline the process

• Ensure appropriate vendor management practices and due diligence.
• Analyze supply dashboards, implementation rates of key performance indicators and supply information/data from various systems.
• In consultation with supervisor, support countries to develop an emergency supply & logistics strategy based on risk assessment analysis and Programme assumptions.
• Participate in high level emergency coordination, implementation and monitoring meetings with internal and external partners and establish close collaboration with Logistics Cluster/National Logistics Working Group if such is activated/existing.
• In collaboration with supervisor, establish strong working relations with MENA Supply Managers, Regional Advisors for all programmes, Regional Humanitarian Section, CO Programme teams, as well as Supply Division.

3. Collaboration with programme and implementing partners

• In collaboration with supervisor, develop close collaboration and coordination with SD on all emergency preparedness and response activities as well as with RO and CO supply and programme sections.
• Provide supply input to donor dialogue, and support development of supply components of proposals to donors.
• Support assessment of and collaboration with implementing partners including civil society, establishment of Programme Cooperation Agreements (PCAs), and monitoring of supply components under Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfers (HACT).
• Develop and maintain partnership and collaborative relations with Government, UN organizations and bilateral counterparts in supply and logistics activities including harmonized and collaborative procurement.

4. Technical and advisory support to country offices, government/national systems

• Promote/drive supply chain strengthening and change management initiatives with country offices, governments and partners, to ensure efficient and effective supply chains for children.
• Provide input to capacity development initiatives in the area of supply chains for children, in close collaboration with programme colleagues. Support supply components of health systems strengthening as might be relevant in the country context including for sustainability and resilience in the event of shocks.
• Advisory support to Governments/national systems in defining and determining supply solutions for children.

5. Innovation, products, and markets

• Contribute to pilots and support the actual roll-out of new products and services, in close collaboration with programmes and Supply Division, particularly as relates to last mile supply monitoring and streamlining supply operations for more effective emergency response.
• Promote critical thinking, innovative approaches, and good practices on supply chain management.

• Further to analysis of supply spend and related procurement strategies, in collaboration with supervisor run initiatives to ensure local market development for critical supplies where relevant.

  To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

  Education:

• An advanced university degree is required in Business Administration, Management, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Procurement, Contract/Commercial Law, International Development, Health or related social science field, or relevant first-level university degree (Bachelor’s) in conjunction with a valid relevant professional certification is required.

• A first level university degree (Bachelor's) in a relevant technical field (as identified above), in conjunction with seven (7) years of relevant work experience in supply, logistics, procurement, contracting, administration and/or other directly related technical field, may be taken in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Experience:

• A minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience, at the national and international levels, in supply, logistics, procurement, contracting, administration and/or other directly-related technical fields is required.
• Understanding of development and humanitarian work.
• Emergency experience an advantage.
• Health supply chain management experience an advantage.

Language:

Fluency in English is required. Arabic is considered as an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it.

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)

Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

“UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children.

UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”.

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Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Eligible staff members in the IP category, National Officers (NO) or General Service (GS) on fixed-term, continuing or permanent contracts applying to IP TA positions dedicated to L3 (or L2) Response, may be able to retain a lien and their fixed-term entitlements. The conditions of the temporary assignment will vary depending on the status of their post and their current tour of duty, and relocation entitlements may be limited as per the relevant policies.