Regional Roving Logistics Advisor - Central West Africa and Latin America
Oslo
- Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
- Location: Oslo
- Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
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Occupational Groups:
- Logistics
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Supply Chain
- Closing Date: Closed
The NRC is now recruiting a Regional Roving Logistics adviserone for the Central West Africa and Latin America regio
The Regional Logistics Advisors is to strengthen Logistics services across the region by working closely with the Country Office (CO) Logistics Managers and Head of Support, providing amongst others, technical advice as needed, audit and control services to the COs, assist HR in the recruitment of CO Logistics Managers, and spearhead exchange of experiences in the region.
The Regional Logistics Advisors is to strengthen Logistics services across the region by working closely with the Country Office (CO) Logistics Managers and Head of Support, providing amongst others, technical advice as needed, audit and control services to the COs, assist HR in the recruitment of CO Logistics Managers, and spearhead exchange of experiences in the region.
Job description
- Generic responsibilities
- Standardize, as far as practical, processes and procedures across the region.
- Consolidate systemic gaps and improvement needs and drive organizational change within logistics.
- Support on and develop relevant logs training incl. coaching of newly recruited senior Logistics staff, as requested.
- Coach newly recruited Logistics Managers.
- Provide technical support and advise on NRC logistics policies.
- Provide audit and control checks to the COs to ensure compliance to the logistics handbook, pre-agreed through travel visits to the country offices.
- Develop regional procurement capacities; investigate regional markets and regional procurement options.
- Develop and deliver tailor made training, capacity building to COs, as needed and requested
- Lead and promote cross country learning and sharing of experience. Consolidate and share best practice across the region incl. through promoting and facilitating cross-country deployments based on identified needs.
- Specific responsibilities
- Provide coherent and coordinated feedback to HO management in regards to the needs and challenges of logistics units within the region.
- Through coordination with the Country Logistics Manager, develop and deliver training and capacity building programs for the country offices based on the identified priority areas.
- Facilitate and promote the sharing of best practices and positive deviance behaviors identified in successful country operations with country operations that need support, with the objective of increasing capacity and supply chain efficiency.
- Work with the CO HR and the Regional HR, and coordinate to help map and identify human resource gaps and minimum support standards in Logistics across the region.
Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of experience from working as a senior Logistics Manager in a humanitarian/recovery context, preferably in a regional setting.
- Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal. Verbal French is essential, Spanish is an asset.
- Valid driver’s license.
Personal qualities
- Handling insecure environments
- Planning and delivering results
- Working with people
- Analysing
- Communicating with impact and respect
- Coping with change
We offer
- Contract period: Two years
- Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions.
- Based in: Oslo
- Travel: Approx. 70%
- Candidates must be able to provide original certificates and diplomas upon request
- Application procedures and CV registration: Please note that you are required to enter the geographical location for all your previous positions while registering your CV. There is no specific field for this information in our CV form, but you can use the "Company name" field for both company and location.
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