Logistics Cluster Coordinator-CST II- East Jerusalem

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• 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 training, 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 the 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.

• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

📌 Type of Contract: Consultant, CST II

➡️ Unit / Division: Logistics Cluster/ WFP Palestine

📍 Duty Station: East Jerusalem

➡️ Duration: 11 months (renewable, subject to funding and performance)

❗You are required to fill in all mandatory fields on Workday in English and upload your English CV. Your application would be otherwise disqualified.

What will you do in this position? 

The coordinator oversees the overall Palestine Logistics Cluster response and acts as the main interlocutor for partners and stakeholders. The role ensures that coordination systems, information platforms and logistics services are established and maintained at national, corridor and field levels, including in Gaza and across the different supply corridors as required to support humanitarian community and enable the humanitarian response. The coordinator provides strategic direction, ensuring alignment with identified priorities, the common service approach and the agreed operational planning framework. The role ensures coherence between Gaza field operations and corridor-level planning to respond to common logistics needs and gaps, enable the wider humanitarian logistics response and align with the broader UN80 reform agenda.

The position is based in East Jerusalem, reports directly to the Head of Supply Chain in the Country Office and entails the direct supervision and strategic oversight of all Logistics Cluster Staff across the response, management of the operation resource mobilization, budget management and funds allocation, as well as the responsibility for monitoring, tracking and reporting.

Why work with WFP Palestine? 

For decades, Palestine has been facing a protracted and complex protection and humanitarian crisis. The humanitarian situation worsened alarmingly after an upsurge in violence from October 2023.

WFP, through our dual mandate in humanitarian and development, provides life-saving food assistance to the most vulnerable and food insecure non-refugee Palestinians.

WFP provides logistics support to humanitarian and development partners, allowing them to reach more people faster, and at a lower cost to donors and the environment. By offering our cash-based transfer platform to the wider humanitarian and development community, coordinating logistics, and developing an inter-agency common feedback mechanism, WFP contributes to wider humanitarian efforts.

Comprised of a diverse, multi-skilled group of logisticians, the Logistics Cluster, led by WFP, is mandated by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) to complement and co-ordinate the logistics capabilities of co-operating humanitarian agencies during large-scale complex emergencies and natural disasters.

In order to support the humanitarian community in the Gaza response, the Palestine Logistics Cluster was formally activated on 16 October 2023.

How can you make a difference?

Expert Advice and Leadership

• Lead all Palestine Logistics Cluster activities in line with the Cluster Strategy, common logistics gaps identified, partner needs, humanitarian response priorities and the evolving operational framework under the UN80 reform.
• Guarantee adequate set-up of operations inside Gaza, as well as on the different supply corridors in the region, entry points and operational hubs.
• Provide strategic direction to the Gaza Logistics Cluster Coordinator and corridor teams, ensuring that field-level operations, corridor planning and partner services remain aligned with the overall Palestine Logistics Cluster strategy.
• Advise and assist in identifying and mobilizing the necessary resources (i.e. financial, HR and assets) for the implementation of the Cluster operation.
• Ensure logistics and supply managers have access to relevant technical advice and support on supply chain operations and planning (covering operations, risk assessment and mitigation/management, preparedness and capacity building).
• Facilitate discussion and agreement on the use of common standards and tools among logistics and supply managers; and promote awareness of and adherence to relevant policy guidelines, codes of conduct, humanitarian principles and examples of good practice.
• Lead and manage Logistics Cluster staff in all locations under his/her responsibility, including work planning, performance management, and capacity building.

Information Management & Advocacy

• Ensure the collection, analysis and dissemination of relevant logistics information, including — but not limited to — capacity mapping, risk and gap analysis, corridor status, entry point updates, storage capacity, service availability and operational constraints.
• Contribute to strengthening early warning capacity and provide inputs for any relevant operational planning and analyse trends of supply chain risk using tools.
• Establish and ensure fluid and regular communication, coordination, information sharing and advocacy with all relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure timely operational reporting on Palestine Logistics Cluster activities, including partner needs, service delivery, constraints, cargo movements, corridor status, bottlenecks, risks, funding gaps and required management action.
• Ensure support on the consolidation and sharing of key logistics information and procedures, such as Concept of Operations and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), guidance, operational updates and information products, ensuring they are regularly revised/updated when required.
• Liaise with relevant authorities and stakeholders to gather and make available up-to date information on customs, access conditions, border control, entry point and corridor-related logistics constraints.
• Together with humanitarian community and inter-agency/inter-cluster forums, identify core advocacy concerns for operations and contribute key messages to any broader advocacy initiatives.

Effective Inter-agency Leadership and Coordination

• Provide leadership by organizing and chairing regular Logistics Coordination meetings to coordinate the continuous identification and prioritisation of logistics needs, as well as strategic and technical solutions adequate to overcome bottlenecks and ensure delivery of humanitarian aid/relief.
• Ensure coordination with authorities, Red Crescent Societies, inter-cluster group, National and International NGOs, UN agencies and all relevant stakeholders, and participation in key coordination forums to address issues on behalf of logistics partners and facilitate continuous logistics operations of humanitarian organisations, also aligning with the wider UN80 reform direction.
• Ensure smooth running of logistics operations, including convoy coordination, manifesting and recognition of cargo, transport, storage, cargo tracking, common service planning in Gaza and across the different established corridors and entry points.

Needs Assessment, Prioritization, Project Planning and Implementation

• Working across agencies and organizations, lead a continuous identification and assessment of logistics capacities, gaps and bottlenecks across the response.
• Join inter-agency needs assessment exercises as appropriate to ensure that identified needs, gaps and priorities are as evidence-based as possible in any given emergency context.
• Support the continuous monitoring and analysis of the status of entry points and corridors to Gaza, logistics provider and supplier’s markets & disruptions ensuring that up-to-date information guides logistics planning and response efforts.
• Support the development of an overall engagement strategy, based on the common gaps and needs identified and update it regularly according to evolving needs, identified common logistical gaps, access conditions, funding availability and UN80 reform direction.

Preparedness and Capacity Building

• Actively contribute to regular training and workshops as required, in line with building capacity of all stakeholders. Organise and provide training for partners in field locations where necessary.
• Develop, input and regularly review as required Contingency Plans ensuring the adequate and up to date logistics preparedness information is included.
• Support knowledge transfer and capacity strengthening of national staff, partners and operational counterparts, where feasible, to improve the Logistics Cluster support to partners in Palestine.
• Support transition planning and alignment with the broader in-country logistics reform agenda under the UN80 framework.

Resource Management

• Maintain adequate staffing for the functioning of the operation, this includes recruitment, capacity building and management of the workforce.
• Ensure Cluster funds are committed and spend in line with needs and approved plans, in accordance with rules and regulations.
• Ensure operational and financial reporting is maintained and shared as needed.
• Ensure services and cargo are properly tracked and operational information is shared.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT

• Palestine Logistics Cluster coordination mechanisms are functional, inclusive and responsive to humanitarian community needs and identified common gaps at national, corridor and Gaza field levels.
• Humanitarian community responding in Palestine in supported with logistics coordination, information management, access facilitation to common logistics services where required.
• The Palestine Logistics Cluster strategy, Concept of Operations, SOPs, service approach and operational planning framework are maintained, updated and aligned with identified partner needs and common logistics gaps.
• Common logistics gaps, bottlenecks, operational risks and resource constraints are continuously identified, analysed and escalated with proposed solutions.
• Gaza field operations, corridor-level planning and the broader UN80 reform framework are coherent and coordinated.
• Operational information and advocacy products, meeting minutes, dashboards, donor inputs and management reports are produced and shared in a timely manner.
• Cluster staffing structure, resource requirements, budget utilisation and funding gaps are monitored and managed.
• Preparedness, contingency planning, knowledge transfer and partner capacity-building activities are supported.

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

EDUCATION:

A university degree in Supply Chain Management, International Business, International Relations, Humanitarian Project Management, Business Administration and related field or equivalent relevant experience.

EXPERIENCE:

At least 10 years professional experience in humanitarian operations implementation (incl. assessment, management of operational budget and funds, monitoring and evaluation).

at least 6 years in project/programme coordination and management, including serving in a supervisory role at least 5 years in emergency response operations (natural disaster and/or complex emergency) and/or preparedness projects at least 5 years professional experience in supply chain and/or logistics operations (i.e. land transport, international shipping or air transport, warehouse management, freight forwarding, etcetera).

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

Essential:

• Strong understanding of the international humanitarian response architecture, including the Cluster Approach, inter-cluster coordination mechanisms, humanitarian principles and emergency response planning.
• Strong understanding of logistics and supply chain operations in humanitarian settings, including transport, storage, corridor management, common services and operational risk management.
• Ability to work with a diverse group of stakeholders, build consensus and deliver joint outputs.
• Strong coordination, facilitation, negotiation and representation skills.
• Partnership and service mindset, integrity, results orientation, proactive engagement and strong personal accountability.
• Demonstrated ability to work productively in remote, high-pressure and fast-changing environments, to motivate a team, maintain morale and deliver objectives in difficult circumstances.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; high attention to detail; strong analytical skills; and ability to meet deadlines under pressure.
• Full alignment with humanitarian principles, the humanitarian sector and service provision to the wider humanitarian community.

LANGUAGES:

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Hebrew and or Arabic is highly desirable.

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