Career Opportunities: Storekeeper SSA-4|

?Vacancy Announcement n°:531057

?Job Title: StoreKeeper

?Type of Contract: Special Service Agreement (SSA)

➡️Unit / Division: Supply Chain

?Duty Station: Saclepea, Nimba

➡️Duration: 11 months

⏰ Closing date: Monday 13 March 2023, midnight (Liberia Time)

About WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

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What will you do in this position?

To handle receipt/dispatch and verification of commodities to maximize quality of warehouse operations and mitigate losses, and to support the best storage management practices in compliance with WFP

warehouse standards and established guidelines. Provide supply chain guidance to farmers’ cooperatives and retailers in meeting food safety and quality covering the HGSF programme

Why work with us?

➡️ Meaningful and impactful careers:

Our day-to-day work makes a difference in the lives of the people we serve

➡️ Continuous learning and training:

We provide learning tools for our staff to continually develop their careers

➡️ Multicultural and stimulating work environment:

We encourage gender and cultural diversity to make our teams stronger

Join us to make a difference in Liberia!!

How can you make a difference?

In this position, you will have to:

1. Support the setup and preparation of schools and farmers cooperatives’ warehouses to receive and deliver locally produced food commodities for onward distribution to the beneficiaries.

1. In coordination with the field office programme team, and adherence to acceptable documentation, receive and deliver all NFIs (Spoons, cooking pots, cups, plates etc.) to schools participating on the school meal programme in Nimba, Bong, and Maryland counties.

1. Provide technical support to Selected farmers’ cooperatives and WFP’s supported schools in Nimba, Bong and Maryland counties in keeping with the agreed food safety and quality measures as per WFP’s standards.

1. Effectively receive/dispatch commodities including transshipment (truck to truck) against official approved documentation (e.g. waybills and/or delivery notes) ensuring accuracy in physical count of commodities including the quality in compliance with the established standards.

1. Reconcile all commodity vouchers redeemed by the schools’ authorities and verify actual commodity transported to the school by the cooperatives/commercial transporter through regular field visits.

1. Perform daily inspections and prepare reports on the quantity and quality of the commodities received/dispatched and handled, detect promptly, and analyse reasons for stock discrepancies/damages, investigate missing quantity and prepare warehouse loss reports recommending appropriate solutions, to enable informed decision-making.

1. Conduct daily warehouse closing reconciliation at the field office and coordinate with supported schools and farmers’ cooperatives monthly to ascertain their warehouse stock balances for planning purposes.

1. Prepare, verify, and sign off warehouse and transport documents, and maintain confidential files and accurate warehouse transaction records to ensure immediate reporting on commodity movements in line with the corporate requirements.

1. Implement appropriate measures to safeguard food and non-food commodities, to ensure quality control using standard preventive measures in line with WFP established procedures and authorization received from the supervisor.

1. Monitor condition of the warehouse and commodities and take appropriate actions, to support efficient warehouse space-planning and well-organized commodity storage following WFP warehouse standards.

To join us in saving lives, changing lives, you will have for…

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area will be an advantage.

Knowledge & Experience Required:

 Experience using logistics databases to extract routine reports.

 Experience in managing warehouses with food and NFIs.

 Experience in managing inventories.

 Experience in processing invoices.

 Minimum of four years of experience in a related field

Language: Fluency (level C) in English language.

How to Apply:

Deadline for application: Monday, 13 March 2023, Midnight (Liberia Time)

Before you apply…

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting an inclusive work environment in which diversity is valued and where no form of discrimination is tolerated. We aim to achieve parity in our teams in Liberia.Female applicants and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.

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.

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.