Career Opportunities: Assistant Storekeeper / Assistant Storekeeper SC3 – Bamenda & Maroua (172958)

JOB TITLE: Assistant Storekeeper/ Assistant Storekeeper
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Service Contract
GRADE:SC3
DUTY (City, Country):Bamenda & Maroua, Cameroon
DURATION:12 Months
NUMBER OF POSITIONS:2

 

 ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Program is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger. WFP’s mission is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lives. Every day, WFP works around the world to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, especially women and children, can have access to the nutritious food they need.

 

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ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

In Cameroon, the WFP Country Strategic Plan [CSP2G] (2022 – 2026) strives to ensure that targeted vulnerable and food-insecure populations benefit from more sustainable food systems. These systems will also need to be inclusive and more resilient to shocks to meet their food and nutritional needs. In line with this strategic plan, WFP will design and implement interventions to address food and nutrition security challenges, from production to consumption.
In line with the CSP, WFP will apply its vast comparative advantages, including its experiences in providing food assistance to hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable people. to: a) strengthen national systems and capacities to ensure food and nutrition security; (b) contribute to greater effectiveness of crisis response interventions; (c) ensuring access to nutritious food rather than supply while strengthening national capacities and systems for social protection, emergency preparedness and response, and government-led programs and services; and d) increase resilience by focusing on food systems rather than food access,

 

This position is located in the WFP warehouses in Maroua, and the incumbent will work under the close supervision of the Logistics Associate.

What are you going to do in this position?

Based in Kousseri, you will assist with receiving/sending and verification of commodities to

maximize the quality of warehousing operations and mitigate losses, and help apply

inventory management best practices in accordance with standards and related WFP guidelines.

Why work with us?

WFP provides food aid to more than 86 million people in 83 countries, including Cameroon. Your work will have a positive impact on the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people.

You will join a diverse team of professionals and have the opportunity to share your experiences with your colleagues and continuously learn from each other.

WFP invests in the training and development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, mentoring and other programs as well as international mobility opportunities.

Our team is growing nationally and internationally and the timing to join us couldn’t be better!

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (indicative and non-exhaustive list):

In this position, you will have to:

Efficiently ensure the receipt and dispatch of goods, including their transhipment (between trucks) and refer to approved official documents (waybills, delivery notes, etc.) so as to guarantee the accuracy of the physical count of goods, including checking that the quality meets established standards.

Establish, verify and validate storage and transport documents. Manage confidential files as well as data on warehousing operations, in order to establish timely reports on the movement of goods in accordance with WFP requirements.

Perform daily, at the opening and closing of the warehouse, reconciliations and verifications between information system data and physical inventory, in accordance with warehouse management requirements.

 

Regularly carry out daily inspections on the quantity and quality of goods in stock, received/sent and handled, quickly detect stock discrepancies or damage to stocks and analyze the reasons for them, investigate missing quantities and produce reports on warehouse losses by recommending suitable solutions, in order to allow informed decision-making.

Apply appropriate food and non-food item management measures using standard preventive measures in accordance with established WFP procedures. And put in place measures to minimize losses in stores;

Monitor the condition of the warehouse and the goods and take the appropriate measures, in order to help to plan the storage space in an efficient way and to store the goods in a methodical way according to the standards established by the WFP in this regard.

Provide guidance and on-the-job training to warehouse staff members to help them develop and be efficient.

Plan the reception of local purchases (DAP) at the store level, ensure the availability of spaces, human resources (handlers) and materials.

For each Loading Order received from the logistics assistant, Check the availability of Stock in the stores and according to the loading plan received from the carrier, plan the handling teams, carry out the loading operations and issue the waybills from the database WFP food management.

After having physically received the foodstuffs, update the WFP database management system (LESS -Logistics Execution Support System) in accordance with the “Real Time” principle and archive the documents.

Produce daily reports on all activities carried out in the warehouse; QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Education: High school diploma. Desired experience: Three years of professional experience in a similar field. Knowledge and skills: Experience in monitoring various aspects related to logistics operations. Experience in supporting warehouse management. Experience supporting inventory management. Experience with data entry and periodic reporting. Knowledge of the work area would be an asset Language skills: Mastery of French (level C) with knowledge of English.