Balkans Donations Coordinator At Collective Aid

This is a position that pays a stipend of €300 per month. Collective Aid is a volunteer run organisation meaning that the majority of our work is done by temporary volunteers. As such the accommodation we offer is a shared room in a volunteer house alongside other coordinators in the city of Subotica with a small food budget.

Collective Aid aims to provide a regular NFI distribution service in refugee hotspots on the Serbo-Hungarian border and in Sarajevo. The purpose of this role is to ensure our Balkans projects have access to the aid they require in order to maintain a regular and dignified NFI distribution service to the communities we support. Your focus will be on ensuring our warehouses, where we receive and process NFI, are well-stocked and organized. This can involve maintaining order in the warehouse, managing volunteers on warehouse shifts, and co-ordinating shipments of NFI from European NGOs to the Balkans.

Responsibilities and Expectations:

• Procurement
  • Build and nurture partnerships with NFI Collection NGOs
  • Build and nurture partnerships with local NGOs for the purpose of NFI exchange
  • Work with NFI Collection NGOs to coordinate shipment logistics
  • Working remotely and in person with the Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH) team to facilitate quarterly NFI donations. This includes being in regular contact with the BiH Programmes Manager and BiH Distribution/Warehouse coordinator, remotely participating in BiH coordination meetings, collaboratively creating NFI needs lists remotely, and coordinating the importation of NFI donations.
  • Procure NFI when requested
• Warehouse
  • Work alongside Subotica Distributions Coordinator to manage CA Subotica’s NFI warehouse and ensure received NFI is correctly and punctually prepared by volunteers for distribution in Subotica

Qualifications and Experience:

• Essential:
  • Supporting displaced people/people on the move
  • Humanitarian NGOs (work/volunteering)
  • NFI distribution and warehousing
• Desired skills:
  • Volunteer management
  • Warehouse management
  • Shipment and customs logistics
  • Inter-organisational cooperation