| UNFPA recruits 01 Regional Supply Specialist | |
| Description de l’offre Regional Supply Specialist, (Multiple Duty Stations: APRO, ASRO, ESARO, LACRO, WCARO), Supply Chain Management Unit (SCMU), P-3 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Cairo (Egypt) Johannesburg (South Africa) Bangkok (Thailand) Dakar (Senegal) Panama City (Panama) Multiple locations P-3 Mid-level Professional Full-time Internationallly Recruited Procurement, Supply and Logistics JOB DESCRIPTION The Position: The Regional Supply Specialist position is responsible for coordinating support to COs and IPs for effective supply chain management. These positions are located in: • Asia and Pacific Regional Office (APRO – Bangkok) • Arab States Regional Office (ASRO – Cairo) • West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO – Dakar) • Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO – Johannesburg) • Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office (LACRO – Panama City) The position reports to the International Operation Manager with a functional reporting line to the Head, CO Monitoring and Support in the Supply Chain Management Unit. How you can make a difference: UNFPA occupies a unique position in the Reproductive Health Commodity ecosystem as a critical player in supply chain management, a leading public procurer of reproductive health commodities, a trusted partner to national governments, and one of the few organizations with the scale and partnerships necessary to build accountability for last mile delivery. Additionally in humanitarian settings, UNFPA is responsible for ensuring the availability of lifesaving sexual and reproductive health and gender based violence prevention and response commodities to those hardest to reach, and commodities to enable operational programme implementation in the hardest to operate settings. The Supply Chain Management Unit (SCMU), which will be operational from January 2022, ensures that UNFPA is able to effectively and efficiently support the delivery of life-saving supplies where they are needed most with the speed and quality required to ensure continuity of UNFPA operations. To do so, it provides enabling services to Regional Offices and Country Offices and ensures coordination, end-to-end visibility and accountability on all supply chain and logistics management related activities across all UNFPA Programmes. Job Purpose: As Regional Supply Specialist in the region, you will have the opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team dedicated to ensuring that UNFPA can play its role as action leader and global champion of reproductive health and rights aiming to end unmet need for family planning, maternal death, and violence and harmful practices against women and girls. Qualifications and Experience Education: Advanced university degree in supply chain management, business administration, or equivalent fields is required. Knowledge and Experience: • At least 5 years of relevant experience, including at least 2 years in humanitarian settings. • Previous field experience working with either UNFPA supplies, Interagency Emergency Reproductive Health kits, or similar such humanitarian health commodities. • Experience in providing direct country support for logistics, SCM and inventory control in development and complex humanitarian operating environments. • Knowledge in supply chain and logistics data collection and analysis, including forecasting and supply planning including experience in the use of UNFPA SM tools, in particular knowledge of Oracle Cloud supply-chain and inventory management functions is an advantage. • Knowledge of compliance and standards of implementation in line with WHO/national medical guidelines, protocols and standards, including experience managing medical commodities in low resource or humanitarian settings. • Experience in management/accountability mechanism for supply management to ensure coherence between global, regional and national health policies and strategies. • Experience working/collaborating with international humanitarian or development organizations, with understanding of humanitarian coordination systems an advantage. • Experience in the design and delivery of training and other capacity building courses for various personnel, with the ability of applying effective adult learning principles to ensure a participatory and interactive learning experience Languages: Fluency in English is required. Depending on the duty station, a working knowledge of another official UN language may be required. | |
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