Almacenista /Storekeeper
Organizational Context
WFP in Honduras works to foster livelihoods and human capital, addressing root causes of hunger and poverty. Since 1970, WFP has reached approximately 1.5 million beneficiaries annually, with a strong field presence across multiple locations. The organization collaborates closely with the government and partners to meet the basic needs of vulnerable populations in crisis.
Job Purpose
The Storekeeper is responsible for managing the reception and dispatch of goods to maximize warehouse operational quality and minimize losses. This role supports the implementation of best practices in warehouse management, adhering to WFP's established standards and guidelines. Key responsibilities include efficiently receiving and dispatching products, ensuring accurate documentation and physical counts, preparing and verifying transport documents, maintaining accurate inventory records, and conducting daily reconciliation. The Storekeeper also performs daily inspections, reports on product quantity and quality, identifies discrepancies, and investigates stock shortages to recommend appropriate solutions, ensuring the proper safeguarding of food and non-food items.
Responsibilities
The primary responsibilities of this role revolve around the efficient management of warehouse operations, focusing on the reception and dispatch of goods to maximize operational quality and minimize losses. This includes accurately receiving and dispatching products, ensuring proper documentation, and verifying the physical count and quality of items against established standards. The position requires meticulous record-keeping, including preparing, verifying, and signing warehouse and transport documents, and maintaining confidential files of warehouse transactions for immediate accountability of product movements. Daily reconciliation of warehouse closing and precise stock checks are essential to support internal control systems. Furthermore, the role involves conducting daily inspections, reporting on the quantity and quality of goods, promptly identifying and analyzing discrepancies or damages, and investigating missing quantities to report on warehouse losses with recommended solutions. Safeguarding food and non-food products through appropriate measures to ensure quality control, adhering to WFP's preventive measures and supervisor authorization, is also a key duty. Maintaining the warehouse and products in optimal condition for efficient space planning and organized storage, in line with WFP standards, is expected. Finally, the role may involve providing on-the-job guidance and training to other warehouse staff to contribute to their professional development and performance.
Work Experience
The role requires four years of experience in similar activities. Desired experience includes using logistics databases for reports, managing food and non-food warehouses, inventory management, and invoice processing.
Skills
Warehouse Management, Inventory Control, Logistics Databases, Food and Non-food Product Management, Shipping and Receiving, Quality Control, Data Entry and Record Keeping, Team Training and Development, Spanish Language Proficiency, Basic English Language Skills