NRC Logistics Assistant Assets & Warehouse Vacancies || UN Jobs in Leer

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our actions and relationships.

The Logistics Assistant – Assets & Warehouse is responsible for daily operations of the warehouse transactions in Thonyor and ensures all deliveries and receipts are correctly recorded in accordance with NRC and WFP regulations.

1. Role and responsibilities
   • Ensure warehouse is well organized to receive and stack commodities
   • Supervise of offloading and loading by counting and in safe manner
   • Sign waybills and ensure proper filing of warehouse documents
   • Prepare weekly and/or on need basis stock report and share with PC/Warehouse Manager
   • Ensure proper daily cleaning of the warehouse is done
   • Monitor the expiry dates of various commodities and inform the supervisor for action in time
   • Monitor the food status/infestation in the warehouse
   • Timely/regularly update the supervisor on operational challenges and warehouse needed items
   • Ensure safe and sufficient supervision of casual workers
   • Ensure adherence to Logistics Handbook, other NRC policies and donor requirements
   • Ensure the operations are in compliance with donor’s rules, NRC policies procedures

Specific responsibilities

 The Logistics Assistant will be responsible for the following activities:

• • Liaise fair recruitment of casuals for warehouse tasks: Offloading/loading, inventories, cleaning
  • Complete required documentation before release of food for distributions
  • Ensure proper cleaning of the warehouse
  • Identification of warehouse needs and avail list of existing materials
  • Conduct physical inventory
  • Assess capacity of warehouse and alert supervisor for action forward
  • Ensuring all team members are aware of the do’s and don’ts when undertaking field mission, e.g. Respect cultural norms, Do no harm, Confidentiality, Impartiality
  • Ensure operational linkages with other UN Agency and NGO partners working in the area
  • Other responsibilities as required by line management

2. Competencies 

Professional competencies

Generic professional competencies: 

• Holder of higher school certificate
• Previous experience of at least 1 year from working as a storekeeper/Logistics Assistant in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Knowledge of donor rules in the view of commodity and warehouse management is an asset.
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Experience in establishing systems and procedures
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience: 

• Knowledge of the local context
• Knowledge of English and Arabic is essential and other local languages is a strong advantage

2. Behavioural competencies

• Ability to work under stressful conditions and meet deadlines
• Good networking and collaboration skills
• Ability to work with different cultural contexts requiring cultural sensitivity
• Well-developed interpersonal and team skills and proven ability to be flexible in demanding situations and ability to work under pressure and in response to changing needs
• Motivated and dedicated to NRC values and ways of working
• High degree of creativity and initiating new ideas and seeking local or contextualized solutions
• Transparent and accountable
• Managing resources to optimize results
• Managing performance and development
• Empowering and building trust
• All employees of the Norwegian Refugee Council should adhere to our Codes of Conduct

3. Performance Management

The employee will be accountable for the responsibilities and the competencies, in accordance with the NRC Performance Management Manual. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:

• The Job Description
• The Work and Development Plan
• The Mid-term/End-of-trial Period Performance Review Template
• The End-term Performance Review Template
• The NRC Competency Framework