Storekeeper

Organizational Context

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives and building a pathway to peace and prosperity. WFP uses food assistance to help people recover from conflict, disasters, and the impacts of climate change. We are committed to a diverse, skilled, and high-performing workforce operating in an inclusive environment.

Job Purpose

The Storekeeper G4 position is crucial for ensuring the efficient and accurate management of commodity receipt, dispatch, and verification within WFP's warehouse operations. This role directly contributes to maximizing the quality of warehouse activities, mitigating losses, and upholding best storage management practices in compliance with WFP standards. The incumbent will be responsible for meticulously handling all commodity movements, maintaining accurate records, conducting inventory checks, and preparing reports on stock status and discrepancies. By ensuring the integrity of inventory and the quality of stored goods, the Storekeeper G4 plays a vital role in supporting WFP's mission to deliver effective humanitarian assistance to millions of people globally.

Responsibilities

The Storekeeper role at the World Food Programme (WFP) is crucial for maintaining efficient warehouse operations and minimizing losses. Key responsibilities include accurately receiving, dispatching, and verifying commodities against official documentation, ensuring both physical count and quality meet established standards. The Storekeeper is responsible for preparing, verifying, and signing warehouse and transport documents, maintaining confidential files, and keeping accurate transaction records for immediate reporting of commodity movements. Daily reconciliation of warehouse closing and inventory checks are essential for supporting internal control systems. The role involves conducting daily inspections of commodity quantity and quality, promptly detecting and analyzing stock discrepancies or damages, investigating missing quantities, and preparing loss reports with recommended solutions. Safeguarding food and non-food commodities through standard preventive measures and authorized actions is paramount. Additionally, the Storekeeper monitors the condition of the warehouse and commodities, implementing appropriate actions for efficient space planning and organized storage according to WFP standards. Providing guidance and on-the-job training to warehouse staff is also a key aspect of the role, contributing to team development and performance.

Work Experience

Requires 4 or more years of experience in a similar role. Experience with logistics databases for routine reports, managing warehouses with food and non-food items, inventory management, and processing invoices is also needed.

Skills

Commodity receipt and dispatch, Warehouse documentation and record keeping, Inventory management and reconciliation, Quality control and damage assessment, Commodity safeguarding and storage, Warehouse space planning, On-the-job training, Logistics database utilization, Invoice processing

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