Danish Refugee Council Opportunities in Ethiopia

Danish Refugee Council Logistics and Procurement Officer Jobs in Ethiopia

Background

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1956 that works in more than 35 countries throughout the world, including Ethiopia and Djibouti. DRC fulfills its mandate by providing direct assistance to conflict-affected populations, including refugees, internally displaced people and host communities. Under its mandate, DRC focuses on emergency humanitarian response, rehabilitation and post-conflict recovery.

Key Responsibilities

Working under the direct management of the Area Manager, the Logistics and Pro-curement

Officer will be responsible for all of the daily logistics and procurement related functions in DRC's Dolo Ado FO in strict compliance with the organization's and donors' policies and procedures and strong attention to detail. The Logistics and Procurement Officer will furthermore manage one

Logistics and Procurement Assis-tant, one storekeeper, guards and drivers.

The Officer will act as the primary point of communication with DRC's logistics and procurement team in Addis Ababa for daily matters.

Responsibilities and Task

Logistics and Procurement
With support from the Addis Ababa-based logistics and procurement team, ensure high quality day-to-day management of all logistics and procurement functions to ensure strict compliance to DRC's procurement procedures, full transparency and timely delivery of quality goods and services as requested by the programs and other support functions.

This responsibility will include leading tender processes, organizing procurement committee meetings, con-ducting bid analyses and drafting relevant contracts.

Collaborate closely with the Dolo Ado and Addis Ababa based finance

and administration departments to ensure payments are made upon successful re-ceipt of procured items.

Conduct regular market surveys of goods and services and develop a user-friendly procurement catalogue of local and regionally available items which is updated on a monthly basis.

Provide strategic support, including projections and recommendations on lo-gistical and procurement matters to the Area Manager.

Ensure that service sourcing is done according to rules and standards related to the respective donors and in compliance with DRC guidelines

Provide technical support and capacity building of all the staff within pro-curement and logistics in close dialogue with the Area Manager
On dispatch of materials to a field location, communicate to relevant staff the contents and the expected date of arrival of same.

Participate in the vendors performance review.
Warehouse Management

Together with program staff, manage the quality control of all items received and ensure items are properly recorded, inventoried and stored or ware-housed.

In cases of distributions to beneficiary populations, the Officer will collaborate with program and monitoring and evaluation staff to ensure dis-tribution lists are collected.

The aforementioned tasks will require both ad-herence to DRC and donor policies and procedures as well as the initiative to develop and improve upon systems.

Ensure that DRC warehouses are managed according to DRC warehouse standards and records are kept for audit.

How to Apply:

For more information and job application details, see; Danish Refugee Council Logistics and Procurement Officer Jobs in Ethiopia

Closing Date: 18th June 2017