DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
30 April 2025-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)
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ABOUT WFP
The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
BACKGROUND
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations humanitarian agency dedicated to tackling hunger and malnutrition worldwide. Due to its expertise in humanitarian logistics, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) selected WFP as the lead agency for the Logistics Cluster in 2010.
The Logistics Cluster leads and facilitates a coordinated humanitarian logistics response during emergencies, to jointly work towards collective outcomes and collaboratively address common issues and steer strategic orientation. The operational emphasis - and therefore the required profile of the Logistics Cluster Coordinator - may vary by location depending on the emergency context, and the type and phase of the Logistics Cluster response. As such, this recruitment process aims to identify candidates with a variety of profiles to ensure that WFP can recruit the right candidates to lead and coordinate the logistics response in any given emergency context.
The purpose of this vacancy is to establish a roster of logistics coordination specialists with humanitarian experience, leadership, and coordination/cooperation expertise. This means that successful candidates will be part of a pool that can be deployed when required, based on suitability of their profile to the contextual requirements. Please note that selection for the roster does not imply an offer of contract from WFP.
LOGISTICS CLUSTER VALUES
The Logistics Cluster Coordinator adheres to and promotes the values of the Logistics Cluster: collaboration, professionalism and agility, localisation and sustainability, and accountability.
At country level, the Logistics Cluster is guided by locally identified priorities, strives to enhance humanitarian logistics efficiency, fosters and supports a localised response capacity and provides solutions that minimise disruption of local markets and promote local resilience, advocates for a sustainable approach to humanitarian response and endeavours to apply lasting solutions, and is accountable to affected populations through its partners, and to the humanitarian and national leaderships through the lead agency. All Logistics Cluster plans, strategic decisions, and prioritisations are made transparently by and for its partners. For more information please visit: https://www.logcluster.org/en
FUNCTION PURPOSE
The purpose of this position is to provide leadership and facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, appropriate, coherent, effective and efficient response by participating organisations in Logistics Clusters at country level.
The Logistics Cluster Coordinator is the main interlocutor for partners and is responsible for the establishment of coordination systems and information platforms, that relevant logistics information is collected and shared, and that efficient and adequate operations are set up and maintained in support of its partners at all relevant levels of the operation.
The Logistics Cluster Coordinator reports to WFP Country Office management and works closely with the WFP Supply Chain department and other WFP units, while being supported and advised by the Logistics Cluster team based at WFP Headquarters (HQ) in Rome.
Education: A university degree in Supply Chain Management, International Business, International Relations, Crisis Management, Project Management, Business Administration or related field, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
Required experience: Minimum of six years of progressive professional responsibility in international humanitarian project/programme/logistics implementation, with at least 2 years in a senior position.
Desired experience:
Serving in a supervisory role.
- Exposure to the IASC Cluster system, especially working for / with the Logistics Cluster at global or field level in emergency preparedness or response.
- Working with national and international coordination systems.
- Experience in humanitarian supply chain / logistics roles.
- Experience working in roles with an inter-agency collaboration component.
Required knowledge and skills:
- Ability and willingness to deploy at short notice to areas with potentially challenging environments for a duration of minimum 1 month is a strict requirement.
- Ability to quickly adapt to and set up new operations, or to embed in ongoing activities as surge staff.
- Leadership and decision-making skills, and the ability to develop a strategic vision and shared goals based on humanitarian principles, following a partnership and service mindset, demonstrating integrity, a result oriented and proactive engagement approach, and attention to gender and cultural sensitivities, promoting a climate of teamwork internally and externally, encouraging mutual learning.
- Communication and interpersonal skills to establish and manage collaboration and coordination, including chairing or contributing to multilateral working groups, work across a diverse group of stakeholders (internally and externally), build/develop consensus and deliver joint outputs. Excellent listening and written and verbal communications skills.
- Analytical skills, including the ability to analyse and evaluate data and translate it into meaningful information to facilitate decision making.
- Demonstrated ability to work productively and meet tight deadlines in remote and high-pressure environments, focusing on solutions.
- Ability to motivate a team, maintain morale and achieving objectives in difficult circumstances. Project management skills including planning, timely execution, monitoring and controlling, and closure or transfer of activities.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office 365, especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint and other related software.
Desired knowledge and skills
- Understanding of stakeholders’ mandates, considerations and requirements.
- Ability to understand and anticipated information needs of stakeholder groups.
- Understanding the international humanitarian response architecture, including key stakeholders, coordination mechanisms, Humanitarian Reform and humanitarian action, and international emergency response funding mechanisms
- Languages: A level C qualification (proficiency or mother tongue) in one of the UN languages (preferably English, French, Spanish or Arabic) is mandatory.
- Good working knowledge in English is compulsory while working knowledge of another UN language (particularly French, Spanish, or Arabic) is an asset
