Supply Chain Specialist

Please Observe: Earlier Candidates needn’t apply.

Place kind: Everlasting full time 37.5 hours per week – versatile hours thought-about

Accountable to: Programmes Provide Chain Supervisor

Direct experiences: None

Location: ShelterBox HQ, Truro, Cornwall. Distant working (UK solely) will likely be thought-about (with common journey to Truro no less than 4x per yr)

Journey: Work away from dwelling, this can be UK or abroad. Journey can embrace deploying to help in-country programmes, enterprise journeys, attending/delivering coaching. You might be required to work away from dwelling as much as 30% of your time in any calendar yr.

Position objective:

Help ShelterBox help recipients by coordinating humanitarian provide to ship help and help to catastrophe affected areas, each remotely and deployed.

ShelterBox is looking for an skilled provide chain skilled to affix our agile and bold Worldwide Programmes Division to work on our programmes which cowl East and Southern Africa, Asia and MENA, West and Central Africa, and Emergencies.

This can be a dynamic and impactful function. The Provide Chain Specialist will oversee the supply of humanitarian shelter help by importation, native/regional procurement and CVA. A powerful information of worldwide logistics and Provider Relationship Administration is important. Prior expertise of building emergency provide chains for humanitarian tasks is very fascinating.

The Provide Chain Specialist will likely be concerned in quite a lot of duties and tasks proper throughout the availability chain from worldwide and native scoping, tactical planning and strategic stock administration to negotiation, procurement and preparedness.

The Provide Chain Specialist is an enthusiastic workforce member and a artistic problem-solver with a eager eye for element. They see alternatives in challenges, have excellent interpersonal abilities and can all the time work inside the charity’s goals, goals and values and adjust to all authorized and regulatory necessities.

Duties will embrace however not be restricted to:

• Coordinate the availability components of tasks and programmes together with assessing provide choices and routes, researching importation procedures, growing last-mile provide routes, native procurement, and money to make sure top quality, well timed responses
• Be concerned with the administration of prepositioned stock together with monitoring acceptable stock ranges, managing tactical and strategic replenishments
• Coordinating the preparation and provision of related documentation and tendering freight requests to freight suppliers to make sure greatest worth, service, and accountability for motion of reduction provides
• Deploy to areas affected by catastrophe in a provide chain capability to arrange and oversee the well timed supply of help objects and help
• On a roster, present an out-of-hours first level of contact for deployed groups and emergencies
• Set up, develop and lead on good provide chain relationships with freight forwarders, inventory suppliers, different humanitarian actors, related authorities departments and logistics coordination mechanisms at each world and area ranges
• Plan and ship procurement and stock audits as required
• Be concerned with programme preparedness in a provide chain capability
• Work with the Worldwide Programmes division to arrange partnerships with different organisations
• Help ShelterBox to remain conscious of tendencies, improvements, and greatest observe in world provide inside the catastrophe reduction sector; take part in logistics networks e.g., International Logistics Cluster
• Contribute to driving ahead adjustments to fulfill our sustainable provide chain targets e.g., vital discount in carbon emissions
• Help with provide chain danger administration
• Give common briefings internally, and infrequently externally
• Promote and apply provide chain greatest observe inside Worldwide Programmes
• Help with growing and delivering logistics coaching internally and externally
• Help departmental and organisational working teams and tasks when required
• Help the Philippines nation workplace with provide chain planning and implementation
• Keep glorious info administration of logistics programs together with updating data to make sure correct report protecting and accountability of help property
• Promote and reveal humanitarian rules in all actions
• Guarantee adherence to ShelterBox procedures and insurance policies together with these regarding safeguarding, security and safety
• Every other duties as required that are deemed acceptable to the extent and grade of the submit.