MSB recruits committed and skilled experts for our humanitarian, resilience and peace support operations worldwide on a daily basis. We have great experience in working together and strengthening other organisations for example the UN and the EU in crisis, conflicts or other disasters.

The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) is looking for 9 experienced Logistics Officers willing to be deployed to work with the COVAX response. You will be seconded by MSB to UNICEF, under the Standby Partnership framework (https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/covax). Durations for these missions are initially 6 months with possibility for extension, with start the 1st of October.
Employed by the MSB on an international mission you will receive a monthly salary as well as a comprehensive allowances and benefits package, ranging from free home leave travel to access to psychosocial support.

• Support and/or lead the logistics planning, coordination and monitoring of Covid-vaccine distributions and emergency supplies.
• Contribute to develop an implementation and monitoring framework on supply chain/cold chain and logistics matters.
• Enhance country awareness and readiness on COVID-19 vaccine deployment and required interventions, including beyond national level.
• Provide the modeling of a vaccine deployment strategy from central level to the periphery, focusing on microplanning the distribution of different vaccine types.
• Establish and maintain logistics and inventory control systems for all programme, in addition to maintaining systems for emergency dispatch of supplies.
• Propose capacity building strategies and provide guidance to national staff.
• Assess and advise partners on warehouse and logistics management and provide technical assistance to national systems to plan their needs and meet minimum standards in relation to equipment use/vaccine stock management/optimization of vaccine transport and usage.


See the profiles below. Please mark clearly in your personal letter which position/s you are interested in.


Location, Profiles, Duration and Timeframe, Languages required
Iraq, Baghdad, 1x Supply Chain and Logistics Specialist, 6 months initially, with possibility for 6-months extension. ASAP, English required, Arabic an asset.


Ethiopia, Addis Abeba and Tigray field office, 1x Logistics Specialist, 6 months initially, with possibility for 6-months extension. ASAP, English required.


Western and Central Africa, Dakar, Senegal, 1x Logistics Specialist, 6 months initially, with possibility for 6-months extension. ASAP, English required, French an asset.


Middle East and Northern Africa, Amman, Jordan,1x Logistics Specialist,6 months initially, with possibility for 6-months extension. ASAP, English required, Arabic an asset.


Lebanon, Beirut, 1x Cold Chain Equipment Optimization Consultant, 6 months, English required.


State of Palestine, Jerusalem,1x Supply and Logistics (Cold Chain) Specialist, 6 months, English required.


Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1x Warehousing and Inventory Management Assistant, 6-24 months, English required.


Location yet to be decided, 1x Technical Advisor, Supply Chain Segmentation and Market Analyses, 6 months initially, with possibility for 6-months extension, English required.


Location yet to be decided, 1x Supply Chain and Logistics Specialist, 6 months initially, with possibility for 6-months extension, English required.

Experience

Minimum 4-5 years experience from working with logistics. Experiences from working with cold chain and capacity development missions is an asset.

Education

University degree in Business Studies or Transportation.
A relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of a formal university degree.

Languages

Fluency in both spoken and written English is required. Fluency in French an asset for deployment in Senegal.
Fluency in Arabic is an asset for deployment in Iraq and Jordan.

Other requriements

We are looking for persons with a strong commitment towards humanitarian relief and disaster operations. It is of utmost priority that you understand, respect and act in the spirit of the mandate and core values of the MSB.
You must undergo a pre-employment medical examination by a licensed physician before being contracted.
You must inform your regular employer of your potential assignment with the MSB.

You must be able to interact with sensitivity and display respect for diversity and gender in multi-cultural environments. A capacity for working under pressure is essential, as work is often performed under difficult and demanding conditions, where the focus frequently shifts due to changes in priority.
You must possess a high level of professional and personal maturity together with an ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, managers and external partners, such as UN organizations, NGOs, recipient governments and host populations.
You are expected to have excellent analytical and communicative skills, show initiative and take both a hands-on and an analytical approach to tasks and problems.

Selection for interview will be done continuously throughout the advertisement period. It's important that you indicate in your "personal letter" which one of the positions you are interested in.
Working with the MSB on international operations means that you are temporarily employed by the MSB. The MSB pays salary as well as a comprehensive allowances and benefits package to field staff on international operations, ranging from free home leave travel to access to psychosocial support. In addition, participants on induction training and relevant specialist training courses receive remuneration from the MSB.
If selected for this position an evaluation will be done after the mission. The evaluation can result in an offer to be registered on the MSB roster. When you are registered on the MSB roster you can continuously receive interesting international job opportunities and invitations to stimulating and valuable trainings and exercises.
A registration on MSB roster is valid for three years. After this period your registration will be evaluated and you may be offered an extended registration. After being registered on the roster you need to conduct the MSB induction training and any specialist training courses required.


How to apply

The MSB applies a policy of equal opportunities to avoid any form of discrimination. We strive for gender balance and qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.
If you wish to apply for the position please press the apply button and register your details on MyPages. Please note; the information that you provide on MyPages will form the basis for your CV. After registering on MyPages do not forget to apply for the position by submitting your application through MyPages.
It is your responsibility as an applicant to document your skills in a way that allows an objective and qualitative assessment. As a government agency we are subject to the principle of public access to official records. This means that if someone requests copies of application documents, we are obliged to disclose them.

Application deadline

2021-08-18

Hanna Sandström
hanna.sandstrom@msb.se
0046 102405073