Storekeeper SC5
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. Operating in emergencies and supporting recovery from conflict and disasters, WFP emphasizes diversity, inclusion, and personal development. This role is based in Mao, Chad, within WFP's extensive warehousing operations.
Job Purpose
The Storekeeper will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing the reception, dispatch, and verification of goods to ensure the highest quality of warehousing operations and minimize losses. This role involves ensuring adherence to WFP's best practices in stock management and compliance with established standards and directives. Key responsibilities include accurately managing inventory, verifying goods against official documentation, maintaining confidential files and data on warehousing operations, and promptly reporting on product movements. The Storekeeper will conduct daily stock reconciliations, perform physical inventory counts, and implement appropriate measures for the protection of food and non-food items to maintain quality. Additionally, this position involves supervising and training warehouse support staff to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness in complex warehousing environments.
Responsibilities
The primary responsibilities involve the comprehensive management of warehouse operations, focusing on the accurate and efficient handling of goods. This includes coordinating the reception and dispatch of merchandise, ensuring precise physical counts, and verifying quality against established standards. A key duty is the meticulous examination and validation of all warehousing and transport documentation, maintaining confidential files, and generating timely reports on product movements as per WFP requirements. Daily stock reconciliations and checks are essential for internal control systems. The role also entails conducting daily inspections to assess the quantity and quality of goods, promptly identifying and analyzing stock discrepancies or damages, and investigating missing items. Recommendations for appropriate solutions to warehouse losses are expected. Furthermore, the position requires assisting in regular physical inventory counts to ensure compliance with IPSAS standards and operational guidelines. Protecting food and non-food items through appropriate measures to maintain quality control, monitoring warehouse conditions, and optimizing storage space are also critical. Finally, the role involves supervising, guiding, and training warehouse staff to enhance their performance and efficiency.
Work Experience
Requires at least five years of experience in warehousing. Experience with logistics databases for tracking shipments, supplies, claims, and food stocks is necessary. The role also demands data analysis skills for goods and funds, report generation, evaluating service provider performance against KPIs, assisting with contractual documents, and providing technical support for internal systems.
Skills
Warehouse Management, Inventory Control, Logistics Coordination, Data Analysis, Reporting, Supervision, Quality Control, Stock Verification, Goods Reception and Dispatch, Team Training