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Latest job opportunities (June 11, 2010)

Michael Keizer — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:19:00 +0000

Crown Agents are looking for senior procurement specialists for their office in Arlington VA (USA) and Malawi; procurement specialists for Mongolia and Malawi; an ARV logistics officer for Botswana; a procurement consultant for Tanzania; a supply chain operations manager for Malawi; an SCMS deputy country director for Rwanda; a logistics assistant for their office in London (UK); public procurement advisors for several countries; and a team leader for Malawi
Save the Children is looking for an operations director, a senior procurement specialist and two roving logistics specialists for Haiti; a senior manager procurement, contracts and compliance for the West Bank/Gaza; and two senior logistics specialists to be based in Washington DC (USA).
Maxwell Stamp is looking for a project costing and procurement specialist for Laos
UNICEF is looking for a procurement assistant for their office in Geneva (Switzerland), a contracts officer for their office in Copenhagen (Denmark), and a supply and logistics specialist for North Korea. Sorry, no links, they still hide their vacancies behind a registration process.
DanChurchAid is looking for a field logistics officer for Katanga (Congo DRC).
Merlin is looking for deputy logistics coordinators for Côte d’Ivoire and Congo (DRC); a logistician for Congo (DRC); logistics managers for South Sudan, Kenya, Pakistan, Congo (DRC), and the Central African Republic; a logistics/administration officer for Gode (Ethiopia); senior logisticians for Grand Kru and Montserado (Liberia); and a surge logistics officer for South Sudan.
JSI is looking for a deputy chief of party SCMS for Nigeria.
Concern Worldwide is looking for a transport manager for Haiti; an assistant country director systems for Afghanistan; and a general systems manager and a logistics and administration coordinator for Zambia.
The IRC is looking for logistics managers for Congo (DRC) and Haiti.
The IFRC is looking for a trainee logistics delegate for based in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), an operation coordinator for Guatemala, a head of support services based in Panama City (Panama), a procurement delegate for Haiti, and a senior procurement officer based in Geneva (Switzerland).
MSH are looking for a senior program associate – supply planning/MIS/M&E for Bangladesh.

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Latest job opportunities (May 12, 2010)

Michael Keizer — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:01:00 +0000

Mary’s Meals are looking for a logistics manager for Malawi.
Oxfam GB is looking for a logistics coordinator and a procurement manager for Haiti; and an HSP supply and logistics coordinator (based in their HQ in England).
IMC is looking for a logistics manager for Haiti, an operations manager for Sudan, and a logistics coordinator for Congo (DRC).
UNICEF is looking for a logistics manager for Haiti.
MSH are looking for a technical deputy director for Bangladesh.
UNFPA is looking for a humanitarian logistics specialist, based in their HQ in New York (USA).
ACTED is looking for a country logistics manager for Sudan, country logistics & security managers for Chad and Iraq, a logistics intern for Chad, and a pharmaceutical procurement manager for their HQ in Paris (France).
JSI is looking for a deputy chief of party SCMS for Nigeria, and a supply chain advisor intern.
Solidarités are looking for a logistics coordinator for Kenya/Somalia; a logistics support officer and a logistician for Haiti; and a flying logistician based in their HQ in France.
Merlin is looking for a supply chain manager for Pakistan.
Creative Associates International is looking for a procurement manager for Sudan.
The British Red Cross is looking for logistics and procurement delegates for Bangladesh and Haiti.
PSI are looking for an associate procurement & logistics officer, a procurement & logistics officer, and a voluntary pooled procurement & logistics officer, all for their HQ in Washington, D.C. (USA)
The PNG Advisory Support Facility is looking for a procurement manager and operations advisor.

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Latest job opportunities (May 4, 2010)

Michael Keizer — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:01:00 +0000

UNDP is looking for a supply chain management consultant and a procurement advisor, both based in their HQ in Copenhagen (Denmark); and for a procurement specialist for Sudan.
The Mine Advisory Group is looking for a support services manager for Iraq.
MERLIN is looking for a deputy logistics coordinator for Congo (DRC); logisticians for Haiti and Congo (DRC); and logistics managers for the Central African Republic, Pakistan, Haiti, and Congo (DRC).
Marie Stopes International is looking for a senior procurement and logistics manager for their HQ in London (UK).
Crown Agents are looking for a procurement coordinator and a procurement specialist for the USA; an ARV logistics officer for Botswana; a procurement specialist and a senior procurement specialist for Malawi; a procurement consultant for Tanzania; a supply chain operations manager for Malawi; and an SCMS deputy country director for Rwanda.
A non-specified global health charity is looking for a finance & operations director for the UK.
ShelterBox is looking for an operations manager for the UK.

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Latest job opportunities (November 19, 2009)

Michael Keizer — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:53:00 +0000

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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Coordinating logistics

Jurgen Hulst — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:36:19 +0000

Editor’s note: As a first on this blog, I have asked Jurgen Hulst, a colleague for which I have tremendous respect, to write a guest post on coordination of logistics. Jurgen started in 2000 with humanitarian work in South America. Since then he has been doing various work always with a health logistics focus in several humanitarian emergencies worldwide. In 2005 he made the switch from an NGO to logistics work at a big UN agency. He is currently active in supply chain improvement and emergency logistics coordination, through the cluster approach. Jurgen can be found on Twitter as @NFIGuy.

The private sector acknowledged that creating partner networks to improve collaboration can improve supply chain efficiency and save millions. The United Nations, mindful that a collective effort could strengthen a humanitarian response in emergencies, in 1991 established OCHA to improve coordination.

Easier said than done. Do you need to be coordinated?

Right, until 2005 it was business as usual, until an independent review identified long-standing gaps: weak partnerships and insufficient accountability.

As a result in 2005 the IASC, a “unique forum involving the key UN and non-UN humanitarian partners”, started the Humanitarian Reform, using the cluster approach as a new, improved, way of creating partnerships and improving collaboration.

What does this mean for logistics during a humanitarian emergency? It means that in recent new emergencies such as in Pakistan and Gaza and in ongoing humanitarian crises, a Logistics Cluster, supported by WFP, can provide a platform for local and international NGO’s, government and UN agencies to improve logistics collaboration; and consequently improve the overall humanitarian response.

If you are actively involved in logistics in a humanitarian crisis:

Visit http://www.logcluster.org/ to find out if your country has a Logistics Cluster. If so, this site will be good source for up to date maps, road, air, sea transport and contact information. If not, it is still a useful resource for Logistics toolkits & links.
Participate in the next local Logistics Cluster meeting, because you can meet colleagues and find solutions for customs issues, increased transport prices and shortages of warehouse space, to name a few frequent problems.
Participate even if your organisation has well established operations, because your knowledge can help newcomers, while others agencies may offer supplies and services which you can use immediately.
Turn to WFP as a ‘provider of last resort’ for logistics. This means that WFP, as the lead agency for Logistics, accepted the commitment to do their utmost to fill critical gaps in the logistics operations during a humanitarian response.

Logistics and supply chain management in the private sector evolved from doing it yourself, to outsourcing parts of it (third party logistics or 3PL), into using companies which provide integrated supply chain solutions (fourth party logistics or 4PL).

Similar to 4PL the Logistics Cluster provides a unique opportunity for the humanitarian community to share assets and competencies, in order to reach integrated solutions. However, contrary to 4PL, a Logistics Cluster or lead agency does not attempt to run logistics operations on behalf of your organisation.

Does it work, or is it just another talk shop? I invite commenters to provide their own experiences.

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Latest job opportunities (24 May 2009)

Michael Keizer — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:27:51 +0000

Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) are looking for an administration, finance and logistics officer for Uganda.
ACTED are looking for a country logistics manager for Pakistan, a logistics intern for the Central African Republic, and a logistician/security manager for Haiti. They also seem to have extended their deadlines for the vacancies for an HQ logistics support intern and a country logistics manager for Chad, which I posted earlier.
The American Refugee Committee International (ARC) are looking for a logistics and security manager for South Sudan.
A vacancy that is a bit out of the ordinary, but which I am very happy to see (for obvious reasons): Oxfam UK is looking for a learning and development manager (logistics and supply).
Terre des Hommes is looking for a logistician-administrator for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and an administration and logistics coordinator for Afghanistan.
Merlin is looking for a logistician for Ivory Coast, and for logistics coordinators for ‘Africa’ (I’m not making this up!), Afghanistan, and Congo (DRC).

Latest job opportunities (5 April 2009)

Michael Keizer — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:47:04 +0000

ACTED is looking for a logistics support intern at their HQ, a logistician/security manager for Afghanistan, and country logistics managers for Chad and Congo (DRC).
The Population Council is looking for a regional coordinator commodity/logistics for Nigeria (note that this vacancy is not confirmed on the Council’s own web site, and that I am not exactly sure how reliable a site called ‘Confabee’ can be…).
A similar issue with this vacancy: logistics coordinator for Medair in Kampala (Uganda) — not to be found on Medair’s own website.
As with this one: Médecins Du Monde is looking for a logistics coordinator for Darfur (Sudan). However, I give ReliefWeb slightly higher points for likely reliability than the previous two.
Action Against Hunger (AAH or ACF) is looking for a logistics coordinator for Pakistan, and for logistic officers for various locations.
Tear Fund is looking for an area logistics officer for the North of Afghanistan.
And one that is a bit out of the ordinary: the rpc Group is looking for an aviation general manager based in Sudan.