VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Plan Cameroon is an international Child Centered community Development Organization with no religious, political or governmental afficialtion working in Cameroon since 1996, We promote equal opportunity employment and pay special consideration to female candidates. Plan is a Children's organization with primary concerns on children rights, safety and well-being and has in its interest to create safe environments for children with more attention paid to child protection. All employees are therefore expected to comply with our Child protection policy.

within the context of Emergency Response to Refugees from Centra Africa Republic Plan Cameroon is urgently seeking to recruit experienced, enthusiastic, humanitarian-oriented and hardworking Cameroonian for six months duration to fulfill the positions below. While funding is only guaranteed for 6 months at the point of advertising, Plan is seeking longer-term funding and the operations in the East and Adamawa Regions will be operating for much longer than 6 months.

Title: One(01) Logistician to CAR Refugees-UNICEF

Duty Station: Bertoua

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the Emergency Response Manager, the Logistician will among many other tasks perform the following:

1. Ensure a proper warehousing of Foods and non-food items(NFIs)

• Ensure that the warehouses at the regional level, at the Health districts and at the Health areas are suited for proper and safe storage of food and NFIs;
• Ensure proper warehouse documentation is prepared and issuance procedures followed in the warehouse
• Coordinate loading and offloading ensuring optimum utilization of storage space and prompt/smooth daily warehouse operation and recommend actions for improvement;
• Conducts regular inspection of commodities under storage and reports any anomalies.
• Plan and participate in the distribution of items with the supervisors;

2. Ensure a permanent mastery of the stocks

• On daily basis, liaise with the M&E staff in order to issue warehouse consolidated daily reports.
• Initiate inventories and consolidate weekly warehouse inventory reports on materials/equipment items and ensure that all established warehouse internal control mechanisms are functioning and that all relevant records are maintained in accordance to warehouse management principles;
• Follow up the povement of materials/equipment or items for the project and operations
• Keep the Project Coordinator informed of any initiative of difficulties related to the office for attention/redress for the provision  or required support services for program implementation, and submit all document to his approval.
• Ensure Monthly Physical Inventory conducted in all warehouses. The physical Inventory should be reconciled and discrepancies rectified in the shortest time possible
• Assist the project Coordinator and Emergency Response Manager in handling, storing, safeguarding and distributing emergency stocks for both beneficiary distributions and operations.

3. Ensure compliance to the WFP operating procedures

• Ensure utilization of document validated by WFP for all warehouse transactions as per WFP rules and regulations(waybills, LTI, stock reports, loss reports, etc.)
• Facilitate regular visits to stores with the partner(WFP) in order to ensure conformity with regulations for storage of food and non-food items
• Monitor and supervise the activities of storekeepers, tally clerks and Community animators during warehouse operations

Qualification and Experience

• Degree in logistics, transport, shipping, law or other field relevant to the management of warehouses and commodities flow
• Three years of progressively responsible support experience including at least one year in the field of accounting, transport, insurance, statistics, operations or another related field and distribution management.
• Excellent knowledge and experience in using computer software applications(MS Words and Excel)
• Experience of working in zones where security issues is a concern
• Experience of working in emergency context

Skills & Behaviours

• Knowledge on the food assistance and nutrition
• Ability to speak, read and write English and French fluently
• Ability and experience of working in emergency settings
• Strategic thinker and innovative self-starter

Application procedure

All applicationns should include:

1. Cover letter;
2. Comprehensive CV;

Interested applicants should submit their applications no later than 30 June 2014 at 17 o'clock preferably in soft copies and by e-mail to the address: Plan-Cameroon.jobvacancies@plan-international.org with a subject title: Application for Logistician to CAR Refugees-UNICEF.

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted. The candidate finally selected should comply with the Child Protection Policy applied in the Organization.

NB: No application shall be admitted after the closing hour mentionned above