Gaza Emergency Supply Chain Coordinator At Catholic Relief Services

Job Title: Gaza Emergency Supply Chain Coordinator

Job Location: Jerusalem, with frequent travel to Egypt and Jordan; travel to Gaza as security allows

Reports to: Head of Operations, JWBG

Salary Grade: 10

About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

Background

CRS has been present in Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza (JWBG) since 1961. In JWBG, CRS currently supports programs in the sectors of humanitarian relief, livelihoods, civil society strengthening, and social justice promotion through its field offices in Jerusalem, Gaza, Ramallah, and Bethlehem. For further information about CRS, please visit: www.crs.org.

Job Summary

The Gaza Emergency Supply Chain Coordinator is responsible for planning, managing, and providing technical, operational support in the coordination of the emergency supply chain into Gaza – including procurement, logistics, transportation, warehousing and commodity accounting – to ensure effective and efficient delivery of goods to those impacted by the war in Gaza. The Gaza Emergency Supply Chain Coordinator’s extensive knowledge and experience will allow them to anticipate and manage supply chain needs and challenges, and introduce improvement solutions, as the principles of stewardship, integrity, transparency, and accountability are applied.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

• In collaboration with JWBG Operations and Programming team, work with CRS Egypt, Caritas Jordan, GSCM and external partners to manage the pipeline and supply chain from Egypt and Jordan into Gaza as well as coordinate international procurements and freight forwarding.
• Guide and support the teams managing procurement in Egypt and Jordan in the determination of procurement and logistics service requirements, desired specifications and delivery schedules, and how sourcing strategies are defined, ensuring proper coordination and communication.
• Lead the design and implementation of a strategic sourcing and procurement process to identify, assess, select and contract suppliers that will deliver priority Humanitarian aid with a focus on speed, quality and the maximum value for money to the organization.
• Ensure accountability and transparency of all supply chain operations in compliance with CRS and donor regulations, international and local standards and requirements.
• Coordinate information flows surrounding supply chain across the three strategic locations; ensuring the appropriate staff are informed and brought into strategic decisions.
• In collaboration with Logistics and warehousing staff and strategic logistics structures, manage logistical infrastructure, storage facilities and transportation resources.
• Oversee inventory control and the management of comprehensive goods tracking and record keeping systems throughout the whole supply chain cycle, from time of request until time of delivery, with an eye on context appropriate commodity accounting practices. Ensure timely preparation and submission of various reports.
• Support programmatic and supply chain staff in the strategic expansion of supply chain driven programming inside Gaza focused on staff and commodity security and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate, coordinate and communicate with donors, INGO key sectoral working groups, the UN, and relevant local government on CRS Supply Chain from Jordan and Egypt, keeping abreast of changing needs and opportunities on the ground, to develop synergies, and to identify opportunities for efficiencies and growth.
• Create and maintain the proper conditions for learning. Establish a safe environment for the sharing of ideas, solutions, and difficulties and the capacity to detect, analyze and respond quickly to small deficiencies. Provide capacity strengthening guidance, which includes cross-departmental learning.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, International Development, International Relations or relevant field.
• Minimum of 5 years work experience working in emergency contexts, with at least two years in a related function.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Supply Chain, International Development, International Relations or equivalent experience strongly preferred.
• Strong familiarity with CRS procurement policy and procedures, related donor compliance, and multi-national procurement pipeline management.
• Demonstrated ability to represent the organization at coordination meetings with donors, local government, UN, and other international NGOs.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong knowledge of emergency guidelines and standards and procurement / supply chain best practices.
• Staff accompaniment and capacity strengthening experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment.
• Proficient in MS Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio) and information management systems. Experience with ERP systems is a plus.
• Strong strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to make sound judgment and decisions with limited or incomplete information and offer innovative solutions.
• Strong representation and relationship management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally.
• Ability to work long hours in a fast-paced environment and juggle multiple priorities.
• Able to live in an environment where everyday comforts are not ready available.
• Ability to function well in a stressful environment, stay focused, and maintain sufficient work life balance with limited options for downtime activity.
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented
• Ability to work collaboratively

Required Languages – Fluency in English, professional proficiency in Arabic a plus.

Travel – Travel between 25% and 50% to Egypt, Gaza, Amman, and other locations involved in the response