• The Clinton Foundation is looking for a manager access and supply chain for India, procurement analysts for India and the Dominican Republic (volunteer position), a supply chain analyst for Liberia, a logistics analyst for the Dominican Republic (volunteer position), a supply chain manager for the Dominican Republic, and a senior research associate for their operations research team.
• GOAL is looking for logistics coordinators for Haiti and Sierra Leone.
• Solidarités are looking for logistics coordinators for Congo (DRC) and Liberia, a logistician for Congo (DRC), and a logistics support officer for Zimbabwe.
• Merlin is looking for a deputy logistics coordinator for Congo (DRC) and a logistics manager for Haiti.
• Mercy Corps is looking for a director of the Supply Chain Consortium, an organisation set up by Care International, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps and World Vision International to streamline and coordinate their supply chains. This position is based in Singapore.
• UNICEF is looking for a child survival and development (logistics) specialist for Kenya.
• The Malaria Consortium is looking for a field logistics officer for Sudan.

[Image: Job opportunities by Coffeechica. Some rights reserved.]

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• Oxfam is looking for a regional logistics & administration coordinator for the Horn, East & Central Africa region and a logistics coordinator for Congo (DRC).
• MSF-Spain is looking for country logistics coordinators for various countries (but why, oh why do they advertise this on Reliefweb but not on their own site?).
• GOAL is looking for an assistant regional logistics manager, based in Nairobi (Kenya)
• Médecins du Monde is looking for a logistics coordinator for the NWFP (Pakistan); an admin/finance/logistics coordinator for Congo (DRC); and a logistician-administrator for Eastern Djebel Mara (Sudan).
• Medair is looking for a logistics support officer for their HQ in Switzerland.

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• MERLIN is looking for a logistician for their programmes in Kenya and Somalia (based in Nairobi) and a logistics coordinator for Sudan. They’re also still looking for logistics coordinators for ‘Africa’; perhaps somebody should explain to them that Africa is not a country.
• Solidarités is looking for logistics coordinators for Kenya/Somalia, Chad, and the Central African Republic; a base manager/logistician for Bunia (DRC); an administrative/logistics coordinator for Zimbabwe; and a base manager/logistician/administrator for Walikalé (DRC).

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The regular logistics job postings on A Humourless Lot always draw a predictable amount of steady attention. Obviously, none of them gets as much attention as, say, the post on pandemic contingency planning, but if you add them all up, they are responsible for a large chunk of traffic on the site. I think it is safe to say that there are quite a number of people out there looking for a (new) job in logistics for health and aid.

I think it is also clear that there are quite a number of organisations that are desperately short of qualified, experienced staff. So why on earth do they make it so difficult for people to find their vacancies?

Some of the worst practices I have seen over the last couple of months:

• Posting vacancies late (less than a week before closing). In one case I even saw a vacancy being posted on ReliefWeb after the closing date^[1] .
• Posting incomplete vacancies: no submission details, no person to contact for further information, nothing about the further process, incomplete or missing requirements or even details of job content… the list is endless.
• Spelling mistakes that make finding jobs a lot more difficult. One ‘interesting’ example was how Goal Ireland managed to consistently spell ‘logistics’ as ‘logisitics’ in the titles and descriptions of a whole slew of their vacancy postings – so if anybody had searched for ‘logistics’ vacancies on their site, they would never have found them.
• Posting vacancies that are not really vacancies. We all know them: those job openings for which the ideal candidate is actually already selected, and are only posted for form’s (or internal regulations’) sake. Don’t do it: the word will go around, and your next opening will not get candidates from the people in the know, who will all have heard about your despicable behaviour, but from the poor newbies who haven’t heard – exactly the people who you want to apply for you high-level logistics management position, right?
• Only posting on your own site. You think that everybody has the opportunity to go and make regular visits to every single site? Be smart: post your job openings on the main inter-agency sites.

So next time when you complain about the lack of qualified candidates for your logistics positions, just first look at your own job publication practices

Footnote

Back to post [1] That particular posting was later removed. A pity, I would have loved to name and shame.

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• Concern Worldwide is looking for a logistics coordinator for Afghanistan.
• Goal Ireland is looking for an emergency programme regional logistics manager for Ethiopia.
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