Logistics Assistant (Operations Optimisation), G5

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

• Education: Completion of secondary school education. Post-secondary training or university courses in finance, accounting, or supply chain is desirable.
  
• Experience: Practical experience in supply chain and data analysis.
  
• Languages: Fluency in English (oral and written).
  

• Regional Coordination and Optimization Support
  
• Support the preparation and facilitation of regional corridor coordination calls and workshops, ensuring agendas, action trackers, and follow-up are complete
  
• Facilitate coordination calls for emergency operations, when required.
  
• Identify and escalate operational issues to the corridor manager for resolution.
  
• Provide COs with analytical support for ad-hoc decision-making.
  
• Maintain and update corridor master data.
  
• Support end-to-end movement coordination and visibility by ensuring data quality.
  
• Support exception management and timely issue resolution.
  
• Support the corridor manager in GCMF stock pre-positioning decisions through corridor stocks and cost analysis.
  
• Strengthen the regional corridor data-sharing framework and ensure interoperability across COs.
  
• South Africa/Durban corridor operations
  
• Contribute to budgeting and reconciliation processes for South Africa/Durban corridor operations.
  
• Ensure South Africa/Durban corridor operations are fully integrated into CBAs and reconciliations.
  
• Provide regional overview of South Africa/Durban corridor operations, ensuring throughput, staffing updates, and performance are consolidated into corridor regional operations reporting.
  
• Facilitate information flow between the Durban hub team, Nairobi RO corridor unit, and COs on dispatch priorities, stock pre-positioning, and cost recovery mechanisms.
  
• Document lessons learned from South Africa/Durban corridor operations and feed into regional efficiency improvement initiatives.
  
• Participate, when required, in compliance and support missions to South Africa/Durban corridor operations.
  
• Support Corridor Operations Lead as needed.
  
• Alternate Logistics Consultant for South Africa/Durban corridor operations as needed.