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Recrutement de 01 Logistics Associate SC6

Entreprise: World Food Programme
Niveau d'etude: Non precise
Localité: Zambie / Lusaka
Date limite: 2025-07-24

Recrutement de 01 Logistics Associate SC6
Lusaka, Zambie
time type
Full time
job requisition id
JR114378
DATE LIMITE DE CANDIDATURE

24 July 2025-23:59-UTC+02:00 heure normale d’Afrique centrale (Lusaka)
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ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.


At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

WHY JOIN WFP?

WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

BACKGROUND
In July 2023, the World Food Programme (WFP) in Zambia launched a new five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP), aligned with national development priorities, the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), and global commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The CSP is closely integrated with Zambia’s Eighth National Development Plan and reflects WFP’s dual mandate of saving lives and changing lives. The CSP comprises seven activities designed to achieve five Strategic Outcomes. These include: (SO1) responding to crises and shocks ensuring that crisis-affected people, including refugees, are able to meet their urgent food and nutrition needs; (SO2) addressing the root causes of malnutrition; (SO3) building the resilience, enabling environment and market access for smallholder farmers, especially women; (SO4) supporting government institutions to provide social protection systems (including home grown school meals) and disaster preparedness and response; and (SO5) improving access to supply chain services for humanitarian and development actors.

JOB PURPOSE AND REPORTING
The Logistics Associate will report to the Head of Supply Chain in the Country Office and be accountable for the following key tasks in logistics as well as support for other supply chain activities.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority):

Provide specialized support to logistics operations and activities, following standard processes and contributing, directly or indirectly, to the effective delivery of food assistance to beneficiaries.

Coordinate requisitioning and ensure timely delivery of commodities and supplies to authorized partners and destinations.

Manage logistics vendors’ contracting activities including performance monitoring and measurement, contract management.

Maintain a logistics tracker for all contracts, warehouse activities, invoice processing and import, export activities and commodity movement activities, and provide regular updates to the relevant stakeholders on logistics activities.

Support gathering market intelligence, vendor assessments (e.g. transporters, retailers, warehousing service providers) to support vendor selection process.

Identify, resolve and/or provide recommendations on specialized queries/requests for support, using initiative and following standard processes, to ensure timely and accurate resolution of enquiries with excellent client service mind-set.

Prepare, monitor and revise budget for all delivery modalities, ensuring adherence to relevant procedures and in compliance with corporate standards (e.g., LESS, WINGS, financial closure, physical inventory, transport performance), and ensure information accuracy within corporate systems to support informed decision-making.

Monitor inventory management processes to track trends and account for the inventory status from source to beneficiary.

Support oversight for commodity accounting data quality and integrity. Participate in budget preparation, monitoring, and revisions for all delivery methods, ensuring compliance with relevant procedures and corporate standards.

Analyze operational pipeline and contribute to assessments and operational planning for all delivery modalities, to ensure that supply chain requirements are taken into consideration.

Manage documentation processing for execution of logistics operations (e.g. customs clearance, invoice verification), take appropriate actions to resolve operational issues escalating complex issues to the supervisor.

Perform research, collect data and conduct analysis, produce reports (e.g. CCTI, SPRs, financial closure, physical inventory, transport performance) and ensure information accuracy in corporate systems to enable informed decision-making.

Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to support logistics operations management and contribute to effective service delivery.

Supervise the work of support staff, providing practical advice and guidance, to ensure individual and team objectives are delivered to agreed standards and deadlines for all assistance modalities.

Support logistics emergency preparedness and response activities including Logistics Capacity Assessment, Contingency Plan updates and Emergency Logistics Cluster coordination, to support WFP’s response in emergencies.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:

Minimum of six (6) years of relevant professional experience in logistics/supply chain operations.

Experience maintaining corporate systems and running queries on ongoing shipments, pipeline information, insurance claims, and food stock.

Experience in administering third party service providers’ contracts.

Experience in compiling contract documentation.

Experience in contract execution.


STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Completion of secondary school education, a post-secondary university bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Logistics Management, Business Administration, Purchasing and Supply, or Transport Management, or related studies.
Language: Fluency (level C) in English language.

DUE DATE

24th July 2025

Only applicable to Zambian Nationals.


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All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.


No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.