Senior Emergency Supply Chain Specialist

Place kind: Full time everlasting 37.5 hours per week with occasional night/weekend working – versatile hours thought of (Earlier Candidates needn’t apply)

Location: Truro, Cornwall (hybrid) or distant working (UK) with common journey to Truro a minimum of 4x per 12 months)

Journey: Work away from house, UK or abroad. Journey predominantly contains emergency responses, deploying to assist in-country programmes, enterprise journeys, attending/delivering coaching. You might be required to work away from house circa 30% of your time in any calendar 12 months.

Who’re we in search of:

It’s anticipated that the Senior Emergency Provide Chain Specialist (SESCS) could have important prior expertise in humanitarian provide chains, at worldwide, regional, and native stage and could have intensive expertise in delivering help in an emergency context. The SESCS is an enthusiastic staff member and a inventive problem-solver with a eager eye for element. They see alternatives in challenges and have excellent interpersonal abilities. This function could be ideally suited to somebody with humanitarian emergency response expertise each at an HQ, regional and discipline stage. This function is suited to somebody who has expertise in mentoring junior colleagues and who’s seeking to progress their profession and tackle line administration obligations, while additionally working instantly on delivering emergency response programmes. The function can be beginning at a time the place ShelterBox goes by important change with a Enterprise Techniques Transformation going down throughout the organisation to enhance our methods of working. It will enable us to be more practical within the face of mounting humanitarian wants and we due to this fact look ahead to welcoming candidates who stay versatile and open to alter.

Position goal

This function can be a core member of the Provide Chain Crew, inside the Worldwide Programmes Directorate and can report back to the Programme Provide Chain Supervisor. The SESCS will work carefully with the Provide Chain Managers, Emergency Crew, Regional Administrators and Programme Managers and it’s anticipated that the SESCS can be assigned to work primarily on the Emergency Responses and line handle Emergency / Provide Chain Specialists or Junior Provide Chain Specialists. Though different areas and nations can also require assist at instances. The SESCS will interact in quite a few duties and tasks encompassing all the provide chain, from world and native scoping, tactical planning, and strategic provide chain administration, to negotiation, procurement, and readiness. The objective of the SESCS is to help ShelterBox help recipients by managing humanitarian provides to offer help and assist to disaster-stricken areas, each from a distance and on-site.

Duties will embrace however not be restricted to:

• Lead and coordinate the design and implementation of the provision chain for an assigned Emergency Response or Programme. This contains assessing and choosing provide choices/route; supporting tax free importation and customs clearance; creating last-mile logistics options together with in-country freight and warehousing; supporting the sourcing of operational companies and items at an area, regional, and world stage; advising and reviewing associate procurement; and supporting CVA modalities to make sure prime quality, well timed responses.
• Chargeable for tendering worldwide freight requests to make sure greatest worth, service, and accountability for motion of aid provides. Together with overseeing transport of help objects by air, sea, highway, or rail and arranging the preparation and provision of related transport documentation.
• Set up, develop, and lead on good provide chain relationships with freight forwarders, suppliers, different humanitarian actors, related authorities departments and logistics coordination mechanisms (Logs Cluster) at each world, regional, and discipline ranges.
• Work with the Emergency Crew and wider Worldwide Programmes Division to arrange partnerships with different organisations.
• Present line administration and assist to Emergency / Provide Chain Specialists/Junior Provide Chain specialists. Present supervision to employees and volunteers throughout deployment and/or when offering on name distant assist.
• Assist with creating and delivering provide chain coaching for inside and exterior audiences.
• Be capable to deploy and be the point of interest for provide chain actions, organising and overseeing the well timed supply of help objects and help. Possessing the flexibility to separate from the primary staff together with some staff members and assume the function of a staff chief for that subgroup.
• Be a part of a roster and supply an out-of-hours first level of contact for provide chain actions for emergencies and deployed groups.
• Assist ShelterBox to hunt out new developments, improvements, and greatest apply in provide chain inside the catastrophe aid sector. Be a champion for provide chain enhancements inside the Worldwide Programmes Division.
• Assist the event of Provide Chain approaches, instruments, templates insurance policies and procedures to make sure more practical and environment friendly emergency responses.
• Determine, mitigate, and file provide chain threat in emergency responses and programmes and escalate when required.
• Contribute to delivering emergency preparedness actions.
• Play an lively function in driving ahead modifications in how we function to allow ShelterBox to attain our sustainable provide chain targets which embrace a major discount in carbon emissions.
• In collaboration with World Provide Chain Supervisor assist the administration of prepositioned stock together with monitoring acceptable stock ranges, supporting tactical and strategic replenishments.
• Preserve wonderful data administration of provide chain actions, to make sure correct file retaining and accountability and transparency of help.
• Present common reporting and briefings for inside and infrequently exterior use.
• Guarantee adherence to ShelterBox procedures and insurance policies together with these referring to safeguarding, code of conduct, security, and safety.