Consultant Supply Chain
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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
10 April 202523:59GMT01:00 Central European Time (Rome)WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race colour national origin ethnic or social background genetic information gender gender identity and/or expression sexual orientation religion or belief HIV status or disability.
ABOUT WFP
The World Food Programme is the worlds 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 WFPs values (Integrity Collaboration Commitment Humanity and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
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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 AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian organisation delivering food assistance to over 90 million beneficiaries in 80 countries on a yearly basis. With over 5000 trucks 50 ships and close to 100 planes on the move every single day WFP together with its partners operates a global network to deliver lifesaving food assistance to the most hardto reach places. This year the Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 to the World Food Programme for its efforts to combat hunger and its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflictaffected areas.
The Supply chain commodity accounting and Budget management unit is responsible in managing and supporting the WFP inventory system as well as monitoring supply chain budget planning as well as fund consumption. The unit deals with eighty country offices through the six regional bureaus around the world.
To achieve integrated supply chain management WFP has developed the Logistics Support System (LESS) that integrates the supply chain the inventory accounting and realtime tracking systems.
The position is responsible to support the business and technical support to Country Offices/Regional Bureaux/Headquarters (CO/RB/HQ) staff concerning in the areas of information management and process and procedure management.
The position also expected to support in formulating reviewing guidelines and procedure materials related to commodity accounting and fund management areas. The other key support area is training delivery to country offices in coordination with regional bureau support areas.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
As a Supply Chain Consultant you will be responsible for the following key duties:
1. Support the review of internal guidelines and alignment with current systems and processes and corporate guidelines including updating training materials and support development of online training materials for CO/RB/HQs.
2. Support on development ongoing system enhancements under fund management commodity accounting and LESS system areas and provide support on rollout and training to COs/RBs.
3. Support the commodity tracking business process mapping project link to traceability project review the process in line with the existing guidelines and procedures.
4. Manage the units information flow organize and prepare parodical reports on system enhancements and development.
5. Propose improvements to WFP Supply Chain eguide process and support to convert into a corporate online training material.
6. Support the update of the units website manage information flow in the site coordinate with other unit on information sharing.
7. Liaise with the dedicated IT Business Analyst to follow up with enhancements and developments related to LESS and FM system and provide update on regular manner.
8. Contribute to supports knowledge management process and repository for the three sections in the unit fund management commodity accounting and LESS systems.
9. Contribute to project team capacity building by ensuring knowledge transfer/training.
10. Support on the monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the support strategy by suggesting and implementing agreed upon Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
11. Support to the development design and implementation of Support tools standards and templates in line with the agreed support strategy.
12. Any other task as required.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Education:
University degree preferably in Project management Supply Chain Logistics information management Business Management or another related field
Experience:
Minimum of 36 year of relevant professional experience working in information management logistics and supply chain or in another related field.
Knowledge & Skills:
Experience in information management digital transformation areas project management support areas. Knowledge of Microsoft excel and database and SAP is preferable.
Languages:
You are Fluent in oral and written English
Intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic French
Chinese Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFPs working languages) is highly desirable/mandatory
WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
WFP Leadership Framework guides to the common standards of behavior that guide HOW we work together to accomplish our mission.
Click here to access WFP Leadership Framework
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
WFP is committed to supporting individuals with disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation please contact:
NO FEE DISCLAIMER
The United Nations does not charge any application processing training interviewing testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Should you receive a solicitation for the payment of a fee please disregard it. Furthermore please note that emblems logos names and addresses are easily copied and reproduced. Therefore you are advised to apply particular care when submitting personal information on the web.
REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate complete and includes your employment records academic qualifications language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
Once your profile is completed please apply and submit your application.
Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
Additional documents such as passport recommendation letters academic certificates etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
Please contact us at in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
Only shortlisted candidates will be notified
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.
Required Experience:
Contract
Employment Type
Full-Time
