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Recrutement de 01 Supply Manager

Entreprise: UNICEF
Niveau d'etude: Non precise
Localité: Sénégal / Dakar
Date limite: 2022-11-20

Recrutement de 01 Supply Manager
Job no: 556959
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Duty Station: Dakar
Level: P-4
Location: Senegal
Categories: Supply Management
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, Commitment

Under the direct supervision of the Regional Chief of Supply, the incumbent will support the WCARO supply section activities towards the strengthening of the countries supply chains with a primary objective of optimizing the timely, equitable and continuous access to services and products, promote financing, procurement and supply chain systems sustainability as well as engage with governments and regional partners to influence mobilization, allocation and utilization of financial resources to strengthen governments procurement capacity.

How can you make a difference?

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks

Supporting Country Offices to establish and develop the contact with relevant government counterparts and regional partners in respect of Supply Chain Strengthening, financing, and promoting partnership activities for essential supplies for children.
Contributing through technical advice to the strengthening of the government supply chain system, including by supporting the integration of nutrition, immunization, humanitarian response and health commodities supply chain activity within the MOH structure.
Identify and map bottlenecks and gaps across procurement processes, including in the area of forecasting and supply planning , financing and partnerships.
Managing all aspects of the UNICEF Maturity Model, including the development of technical guidance, provision of technical leadership to regional/country offices and data mining to identify trends at country, regional and global level to inform investments and work plans.
Supporting governments to implement/ maintain the maturity model to track progress of the governments' nutrition immunization, humanitarian response, and health supply chains operations and enabling processes.
Identify government staff capacity building needs on supply demand/forecasting, financing and partnership engagement.
Developing and supporting countries to implement capacity building plans for targeted SCM tools, forecasting, financing and partnership engagement.
Facilitating the initiation of Supply Chains strengthening activities in support to partners while coordinating communication with SD and other stakeholders as required.
Providing technical assistance to health supply chain to improve access to nutrition, immunization, medicines, and health technologies.
Leading evidence generation efforts across programmes and supply chains, in coordination with relevant internal and external stakeholders. This effort serves to inform the way forward for UNICEF and other partners to identify supply chain strengthening investment needs, deploy UNICEF’s technical expertise and coordinate cross-partner support.
Performing other ad-hoc supply chain strengthening related activities as required

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

Education: An advanced university degree in Business Administration, Management, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Procurement, Contract/Commercial Law, International Development, Health or related social science field

A first level university degree in conjunction with two (02) additional years of relevant work experience as described below may be accepted in lieu of a master’s degree.

Experience: A minimum of eight (8) years of progressively growing and 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.

Languages: Fluency in French and English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate:

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



UNICEF competencies required for this post are:

Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
Works Collaboratively with others (2)
Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
Drive to achieve impactful results (2)
Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)
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:

Priority will be given to all the eligible candidates participating in 2022 Mobility Exercise and Staff on Abolished post.

The selected candidate will be based and expected to work from Dakar, Senegal, the duty station.

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female are encouraged to apply.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

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

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Advertised: 11 Nov 2022 Greenwich Standard Time
Deadline: 20 Nov 2022 Greenwich Standard Time