Regional Logistician (SCMU) , NOC FTA Cairo Egypt

Job title: Regional Logistician

Level: NOC

Location: Cairo,Egypt
Full/Part time: Full Time

Fixed term/Temporary: FTA

Rotational/Non-Rotational: Non-rotational

The Position:

The Regional Logistician position is part of the Supply Chain Management Unit’s (SCMU) Regional SCM Desk. The position is physically located in the Regional Office. You will report directly to the Regional Supply Chain Management Specialist.

You will work closely with the colleagues in Headquarters such as those in SCMU in Copenhagen, the Technical Division/Family Planning Branch, the UNFPA Supplies Partnership, the Humanitarian Response Division, the colleagues in the Regional Office and colleagues in the Country Offices in the region.

You are tasked with supporting the Regional Supply Chain Management Specialist on tactical and operational matters of the logistics functions in UNFPA Country Offices (COs) and Implementing Partners in the region across development and humanitarian settings.

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 SCMU, which was established in January 2022, ensures that UNFPA is able to support the delivery of life-saving reproductive health products and other programme supplies effectively and efficiently to the end user when and where they are needed. 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-management related activities, across all UNFPA Programmes.

Job Purpose:

As the Regional Logistician, 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.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

1. Provision of Logistics Technical Support
   • Advice and provide technical support to UNFPA Country Offices and their Implementing Partners on:
     
     • The preparation and production of the forecast, supply plans and procurement plans for development and humanitarian settings. Conduct their periodic reviews.
     • Logistics preparedness and contingency planning, including prepositioning, engagement with the Logistics Cluster and provide surge capacity where required, to enable continuity and scale up of lifesaving services.
     • Contracting third party logistics services (covering services such as customs clearance, warehousing, transport, and distribution), establish the KPIs and manage the performance of the contract.
       • Ensure UNFPA Country Offices and their Implementing Partners in the region has a streamlined and efficient process for:
         
         • Monitoring of active orders/in-coming shipments and that they liaise frequently with SCMU in Copenhagen
         • Obtaining Green Light to ship process.
         • Timely customs clearance process to avoid demurrage.
         • Managing warehouse/storage facilities for UNFPA’s inventory
         • Inventory management processes particularly for accurate and complete accounting, reporting and internal control systems.
         • Transport
         • In-country distribution
           1. Provision of Logistics Capacity Building