Logistics Assistant - Distribution_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. WFP uses food assistance to help people recover from conflict, disasters, and extreme weather. The organization values diversity, inclusion, and a high-performing workforce committed to its mission.
Job Purpose
The Logistics Assistant will support and monitor distribution operations for medicines and health commodities at the Central Medical Store (CMS) in Liberia. This role is crucial for strengthening last-mile delivery visibility, ensuring accountability during transportation, and guaranteeing the timely delivery of essential health supplies to facilities across all fifteen counties. The assistant will perform loading operations, monitor truck movements, serve as a focal point for last-mile delivery monitoring, and conduct field missions to verify deliveries and resolve challenges. Key responsibilities include certifying quantities and documentation, inspecting vehicles, supporting performance monitoring of service providers, maintaining tracking records, and identifying/escalating distribution risks. The objective is to ensure efficient and accurate distribution, minimizing losses and delays to support Liberia's health system.
Responsibilities
The primary responsibility of this role is to support and monitor the distribution of medicines and health commodities across Liberia, ensuring efficient logistics and timely delivery to all 15 counties, including remote areas. This involves performing loading operations, monitoring truck movements, and ensuring compliance with distribution plans and standard operating procedures. The position serves as a focal point for last-mile delivery monitoring, requiring frequent field missions to verify deliveries and resolve challenges. Key duties include certifying quantities and documentation before dispatch, inspecting vehicles, and managing logistics service providers. The role also entails maintaining accurate delivery tracking records, supporting data integrity in logistics information systems like RITA, and analyzing operational data on deliveries, losses, and transporter performance. Identifying, documenting, and escalating distribution risks, security concerns, delays, damages, and losses is crucial. The position requires maintaining organized filing systems and performing other related duties as assigned, with a focus on minimizing losses and damage during transport and ensuring high delivery accuracy rates.
Work Experience
Requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in logistics, transportation, warehousing, distribution management, or supply chain operations. Experience with nationwide distribution and in remote field environments is highly desirable.
Skills
Organizational skills, Analytical skills, Logistics knowledge, Supply chain management, Microsoft Excel proficiency, Independent work, Working under pressure, Communication skills, Reporting skills, Extensive travel willingness