The Position:
The Prepositioned Stock Management Associate position is located in the Logistics Management Services (LMS) Team within Pillar 2 – Supply Operations in the UNFPA Supply Chain Management Unit (SCMU). The position reports directly to the Prepositioned Stock Management Team Lead. The Prepositioned Stock Management Associate will work closely with other SCMU colleagues, the new integrated HQ division (name To Be Decided), the Humanitarian Response Division, other HQ Business Units, the Regional Offices and the Country Offices and with a number of external partners.
The position provides a supporting role to ensure that Prepositioned Stock are efficiently managed.
How you can make a difference:
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.
In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
UNFPA occupies a unique position in the sexual and reproductive health commodity ecosystem as a critical player in supply chain management, a leading public procurer of sexual and 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.
The UNFPA Supply Chain Management Unit (SCMU) is self-funded and was made operational in January 2022. It is tasked with ensuring that UNFPA is able to effectively and efficiently support the delivery of life-saving reproductive health products and other programme supplies to the end user when and where they are needed. To achieve this, it is important to strengthen the capacity of governments and implementing partners to ensure coordination, end-to-end visibility and accountability on all supply chain and logistics management related activities, in particular for programme supplies, across all UNFPA programmes.
Job Purpose:
The Prepositioned Stock Management Associate is integral to the operational execution of practical, day-to-day aspects of prepositioned stock management to support UNFPA's Strategic Plan across 119 country programmes in development and humanitarian settings.
Qualifications and Experience:
Education:
- Completion of Secondary education is required.
- A University degree at Bachelor Level in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Procurement, Logistics, Transport Planning, International Commerce, or equivalent field is an asset.
- Qualification at Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT-UK) Level 3 Certificate in Logistics and Transport and/or Project Management qualifications and certifications such as PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner certifications, PMP® or CAPM® from Project Management Institute (PMI) would be an additional asset.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Minimum 7 years of relevant progressively responsible experience in public or private sector managing pre-positioned stock where:
- At least two (2) years’ experience in warehousing, stock management, and in-country distribution and/or managing Last-Mile Logistics
- Candidates with hands-on experience working in development and/or complex humanitarian operating environments in low-resource countries are considered a strong asset.
- Knowledge of global supply chain security, risk management, and compliance regulations is required.
- Strong interpersonal skills and capability to develop and maintain broad diversified partnerships is required.
- Basic proficiency in project management skills is required.
- Experience using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is required.
- Professional written and spoken presentation skills, including for the development of reports, presentations, and the ability to synthesize complex supply chain documents for both technical and non-technical audiences is an asset.
- Experience in managing a team, particularly within a remote and/or matrix organizational structure is an asset.
- Experience in supporting the implementation of logistics business transformation projects, especially those involving digitalisation and technological innovation is an asset.
Languages:
Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.
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