Supply Chain Development Delegate At Danish Red Cross

Are you looking for a challenge, don’t miss this opportunity to join the Ukraine team and be our new Supply Chain Development Delegate in Ukraine?

The Danish Red Cross (DRC) has been working in the Ukraine before and continues to do so under the present crisis, where we support the Ukraine Red Cross Society (URCS). The support focuses primarily on emergency response via a strong network of relief and logistics, health, and psychosocial support services (PSS). We emphasize strengthening the URCS through organizational development and operational capacity building. We see integrity, transparency, autonomy and sustainable volunteer structures as necessary conditions for building sustainable NS capacity.

We are offering a unique opportunity to be the DRC supported Supply Chain Development Delegate in Ukraine. To succeed in this position, you will need to be diplomatic, flexible, resilient, patient and innovative in a challenging context. In return you can expect a full complement of support from the DRC Regional Office and HQ, and a competitive remuneration package with free housing in Ukraine and rest and recuperation breaks after every eight weeks

Context

DRC and URCS have been in partnership for more than ten years, working on both emergency response – access to healthcare, medicine, clean water, and food – and on development activities – capacity building in community-based health, psychosocial support services (PSS), and relief. The challenge facing the RCRC Movement is that of a need to be scaling-up its response in a volatile high-risk security environment. Hence DRC supports URCS in organizational capacity-building as well as through efforts to harmonize and integrate support provided in URCS’ three main program areas – health, PSS, and Disaster Management (DM).

Responsibilities (main points, further details in job description)

• Work embedded in the URCS Supply Chain structure
• Support the movement-wide Organizational Development of URCS and be instrumental in developing a sustainable Supply Chain Structure within URCS and the infrastructure to support URCS logistical activities in the field linking it up to previous work done by the movement and DRC in particular.
• Support the development of a National URCS Supply Chain Strategy to increase efficiency and to optimize warehousing locations and cross-nation/regional collaboration
• Help building the frame for a nationwide Supply chain system that enables URCS to have a clear picture of its supply and demand
• Work with URCS to design and introduce a scaled-up procurement monitoring and evaluations system.
• Provide URCS with technical expertise in regard to ongoing Humanitarian Emergency Operations, with particular focus on the eastern part of the country

Experience and qualifications

You have a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in logistics, especially procurement, supply chain management, and warehousing. You have a university degree in logistics, supply chain management, or a related equivalent experience.

You have solid experience working for a humanitarian aid organization in a challenging conflict/post-conflict environment, preferably in the Eastern Europe, and we are particularly interested in your experience in the capacity development of local staff in this field, including curriculum development, facilitation, on the job training, and mentoring. Ideally you will also have experience with the RCRC Movement and knowledge of its logistics management capacities, policies, procedures, and practices.

We expect that you have good analytical and negotiating skills. You possess excellent communication, coordination as well as networking and facilitation skills. You need to have assessment, consultation, planning and project management skills, in order to design and achieve a comprehensive logistics development process for URCS. We expect full proficiency in relevant MS applications, and a valid international driving license. Apart from an excellent level of written and spoken English, fluency in Ukrainian and the ability to switch easily is an advantage.

In terms of personal qualities, good cultural understanding and the ability to work in a challenging multicultural environment is essential. You need to be able to cope with high level of stress, both the stress of living under a restrictive security regimen and also related to workload and the difficulty of achieving significant results in this environment, Proven experience in building the logistics capacity of local partners, ideally of Red Cross / Red Crescent National Societies is the key requirement.

Employment Conditions

The ideal starting date is as soon as possible. The total length of the initial contract is 12 months with the possibility of extension. The salary including all allowances and pension payment will be between DKK 43.800 and 46.300 per month, depending on qualifications and experience. An individual room in Ukraine is provided, free of charge (some flexibility must be accepted as situation in Ukraine is still volatile).

Ukraine is a non-family duty station with a paid 7-day Rest & Recuperation break permitted after every 8 weeks in-country. The delegate will be an integral member of the DRC Country Team, although in order to focus on capacity-development he/she will be embedded within the URCS Logistics Team.

Further information

If you have questions about the position, please write to our Senior Humanitarian Advisor, Supply Chain & Surge, Benjamin Andersen; bensa@rodekors.dk

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As we are doing rolling interviews the deadline for applications is fluent and if the right candidate shows up, we will be hiring accordingly.

Your application and CV should be uploaded at DRC web page www.rodekors.dk/job