Supply Chain Officer (Commodity Accounting) CST-I | Kyiv, Ukraine

🚩 Vacancy Announcement №: 827953

📢 Job Title: Supply Chain Officer (Commodity Accounting)

📌Type of Contract: CST | International Consultant

➡️ Unit / Division: Supply Chain Unit / WFP Ukraine

📍 Duty Station: Kyiv

➡️ Duration: 11 months

⏰ Closing date: 6 July 2023, midnight (Central European Time)

ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s 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 WFP’s 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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What will you do in this position?

The role in Ukraine CO reports to the Supply Chain Unit under the DCD of Operations. Job holders at this level are typically involved in analytics and contributions to supply chain activities or contribute to the planning and coordinating field supply chain operations to ensure actions align with an effective and integrated supply chain approach meeting the food assistance needs of beneficiaries and partner service provision requirements.

Why work with us?

The war in Ukraine has had drastic consequences, both for people inside the country and for those around the world dependent on its huge grain supplies. It has caused one of the fastest forced population movements since the Second World War. Close to 8 million Ukrainians are living as refugees across Europe, and another 5.3 million are internally displaced. Many are destitute, having lost their homes and livelihoods. As food production and supply lines are disrupted by fighting, many families in the east and south do not have reliable access to nutritious food.

WFP uses a flexible mix of food and cash assistance to support vulnerable Ukrainians wherever they are. This includes working with local partners to distribute food rations in areas near the frontline and providing cash transfers wherever people have access to banks and markets to buy food. WFP reaches between 2 to 3 million Ukrainians every month with this critical assistance.

➡️ 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 trainings, 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 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.

➡️ WFP offers a competitive benefits package including salary, leave plus a medical insurance.

How can you make a difference?

In this position, you will have to:

• Contribute to developing and implementing supply chain plans and procedures on Commodity Accounting, in line with the global WFP supply chain strategy and regional/functional strategies, policies, and techniques, to achieve operational cost efficiency, agility, reliability, and quality and to support national capacity strengthening.
• Contribute to country context analyses and management of end-to-end operational supply chain and, in order to support addressing operational supply chain challenges and obtaining operational optimization.
• Collect and analyze data and put together reports highlighting opportunities for improvement and effective operationalization of the supply chain within the area of responsibility.
• Partner at the operational level and collaborate with counterparts in the key Commodity Accounting functions contributing to an integrated supply chain approach to food assistance and cross-functional functional alignment.
• Support supply chain projects or day-to-day operational activities in compliance with the established supply chain strategies, policies, procedures, and controls, and follow corporate standards, contributing to quality control, loss prevention, risk mitigation, and cost-effectiveness.
• Support monitoring supply chain activities on Commodity Accounting to ensure appropriate internal controls are followed to increase supply chain operations’ day-to-day efficiencies and overall performance.
• Prepare accurate and timely reports or support preparing complex reports, dashboards, and other visual materials on supply chain activities for the supervisor’s review to contribute to informed decision-making and consistency of information presented to the stakeholders.
• Guide support staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries.
• Contribute to preparedness actions, providing technical recommendations and guidance and monitoring the management of commodity-specific risks.
• Act in an assigned emergency response capacity to meet emergency food assistance needs.

To join us in saving lives, changing lives, you will have:

Education: Advanced University degree preferably in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Economics, Business Administration, Logistics, or other related field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.

Experience: At least three years of professional experience in supply chain systems, logistics reporting, and inventory management, including the following areas.

• Experience in relevant commodity/product/service markets and trading and managing buying operations.
• Experience managing the physical purchase of commodities/products/services in complex situations (e.g., evaluating offers and making recommendations)
• Experience negotiating with suppliers.
• Experience working in an international context, preferably in a humanitarian context.

Knowledge & Skills: Comprehensive analytical skills and advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and SAP application knowledge.

Language: Fluency (level C) in the English language. Knowledge of Ukrainian is an added advantage.

Before you apply…

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. 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.

We aim to achieve parity in our teams in Ukraine. Qualified women applicants are especially encouraged to apply.

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.