Supply & Logistics Manager P4, FT Bamako-Mali #20069

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For each baby, Hope

Mali is a Sahelian landlocked west African nation with an estimated inhabitants of 20,5 million folks in 2020 ^{(INSTAT, 2022)} with greater than half of them (57.3%) dwelling in rural areas. Its financial system is assessed as low revenue with half of the inhabitants (50.3%) dwelling under poverty line and a low human improvement index of 0.434 ^{(UNDP, 2022)} positioning the nation on a rank of 184 out of 189 international locations and territories of the world.

The Provide and Logistics Supervisor reviews to the Chief of Provide or Chief of Operations as per the Nation Workplace (CO) set-up and is chargeable for managing the availability chains of a medium to large-sized nation workplace, and/or medium sized emergency response operation. The provision chain operations embrace planning, procurement, contracting, customs clearance, warehousing, in nation transport and distribution, in addition to monitoring of provides, companies and development works. The incumbent collaborates carefully with programmes in defining provide interventions to satisfy programmatic wants and obtain outcomes for kids, and gives technical and advisory help to governments, nationwide methods and companions on provide chain administration.

How are you going to make a distinction?

Key perform, accountabilities and associated duties/duties

Administration of the Provide part:

• Set up the annual work plan for the Provide part; decide priorities/targets and efficiency measurements and monitor work progress to make sure that outcomes are achieved in accordance with schedule and efficiency requirements.
• Supervise and coach part workers, guarantee well timed efficiency administration of workers. In collaboration with Provide Division, Regional Workplace and the worldwide provide neighborhood, guarantee data sharing and studying is prioritized with the intention to repeatedly construct capability of people and the group.
• Guarantee institution and upkeep of operational capability to deal with CO provide chains, together with staffing (acceptable staffing construction, well timed recruitment, readability of roles and tasks) and contracting of third social gathering companies if relevant (e.g. customs clearance, warehousing, transport, distribution)

Provide chain service supply and emergency response

• Take part within the Nation Programme Motion Planning and recommendation on Provide necessities for the Plan of Operations and Annual Work Plans. Guarantee acceptable planning, implementation, monitoring and analysis of the availability chain operations, together with institution of efficiency indicators, and evaluation of match for objective of services.
• Analyze provide spend and set up procurement methods primarily based on class administration with the intention to give attention to strategic, important provides and companies that contribute to outcomes for kids, together with institution of long run agreements (LTAs) the place related.
• Guarantee well timed customs clearance of provides coming into the nation and set up acceptable warehousing and stock administration practices, together with acceptable in-country transport.
• Guarantee acceptable vendor administration practices e.g. provide efficiency opinions are established and utilized.
• Analyze provide dashboards, implementation charges of key efficiency indicators and provide data/knowledge from varied methods and conduct root trigger evaluation of provide chain bottlenecks and challenges, with a view to drive enhancements and guarantee environment friendly and efficient provide chains for kids.
• Develop an emergency provide & logistics technique primarily based on threat evaluation evaluation and Programme assumptions. Guarantee an emergency provide and logistics preparedness motion plan for the CO is established in step with Core Commitments for Kids in Humanitarian Motion (CCC) and applied (institution of related LTAs and body agreements for emergency response, prepositioning of inventory, and coaching of workers within the nation workplace).
• Take part in excessive degree emergency coordination, implementation and monitoring conferences with inside and exterior companions and set up shut collaboration with Logistics Cluster/Nationwide Logistics Working Group if such is activated/current.
• Set up robust working relations with Regional Chiefs of Provide/Regional Chief of Operations, in addition to Provide Division, to align with international and regional approaches and initiatives in provide chain administration.

Collaboration with programme and implementing companions

• Set up shut collaboration with programme sections by way of involvement in programme design, planning, and preparation for implementation of provide elements in addition to monitoring and analysis. Set up accountability framework with programmes, for supply of outcomes for kids.
• Present provide enter to donor dialogue, and help improvement of provide elements of proposals to donors together with budgeting and use of modern financing mechanisms for provides, companies and development works.
• Assist evaluation of and collaboration with implementing companions together with civil society, institution of Programme Cooperation Agreements (PCAs), and monitoring of provide elements beneath Harmonized Method to Money Transfers (HACT).
• Develop and keep partnership and collaborative relations with Authorities, UN organizations and bilateral counterparts in provide and logistics actions together with harmonized and collaborative procurement.

Technical and advisory help to authorities/nationwide methods

• Promote/drive provide chain strengthening and alter administration initiatives with governments and companions, to make sure environment friendly and efficient provide chains for kids.
• Implement capability improvement initiatives within the space of provide chains for kids, in shut collaboration with programme colleagues. Assist provide elements of well being methods strengthening as could be related within the nation context.
• Advisory help to Governments/nationwide methods in defining and figuring out provide options for kids, resembling use of procurement companies; provide financing options; native market improvement; personal sector engagement.

Innovation, merchandise and markets

• Contribute to pilots and help the precise roll-out of recent services, in shut collaboration with Provide Division.
• Promote essential considering, modern approaches and good practices on provide chain administration inside the group in addition to with externals to make sure efficient and environment friendly provide chains for kids.
• Additional to evaluation of provide spend and associated procurement methods, run initiatives to make sure native market improvement the place related.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…

• A complicated college diploma is required in Enterprise Administration, Administration, Economics, Provide Chain Administration, Logistics, Procurement, Contract/Industrial Legislation, Worldwide Improvement, Well being or associated social science area
• A minimal of eight (8) years of related expertise, on the nationwide and worldwide ranges, in provide, logistics, procurement, contracting, administration and/or different instantly associated technical fields is required. Understanding of improvement and humanitarian work. Emergency expertise a bonus. Well being provide chain administration expertise a bonus.
• Growing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
• Fluency in English and French is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

For each Baby, you show…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral 3) Drive to realize outcomes for 4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and 6) Thinks and acts 7) Works collaboratively with others, 8 (Nurtures, leads and manages folks) 

In the course of the recruitment course of, we take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should mirror the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background test.

Remarks:

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service. 

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which shall be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities staff which might be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or mandatory inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.

Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.

Eligible UNICEF Worldwide Skilled (IP) Employees Members on fixed-term, persevering with or everlasting contracts making use of to a Momentary Appointment, which is devoted to L3 (or L2) Response, might be able to retain a lien and their fixed-term entitlements. The situations of the short-term project will fluctuate relying on the standing of their put up and their present tour of responsibility, and relocation entitlements could also be restricted as per the related insurance policies.

** Bamako is a Class D, Non-Household responsibility station. The Relaxation and Recuperation Cycle is 8 weeks.

** The profitable candidate shall be anticipated to affix UNICEF Mali inside 31 days of accepting the job supply