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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Delegation in Ethiopia is looking to hire an experienced, highly motivated and qualified person to fill the position of Supply Chain Admin/Customer Service Desk Officer 2, based in Addis Ababa.

PURPOSE

Supply-Chain Administrator 2 (in the Synergy system environment) or Customer Service Desk Officer 2 (in the OSCAR system environment) ensures that all requests are handled efficiently and effectively to meet needs in the field. S/he also makes information available to stakeholders.

 GENERAL DUTIES

• Understands and adheres to the seven Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

• Understands and adheres to the ICRC Code of Conduct

• Understands the roles of the components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

• Respects and observes staff regulations and security rules at all times

• Represents the ICRC in a professional manner at all times

• Develops and maintains a pleasant and conducive working environment with colleagues and line managers

• Performs all duties with the highest level of confidentiality in the interest of the employees and the ICRC

• May be asked to perform tasks not covered in this job description and to provide support to other departments when necessary

 ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Processes requisition orders according to the ICRC’s logistics and financial procedures.

• Analyses the requests received, identifying priorities and proposing alternatives if necessary.

• Recommends partial deliveries or ways to consolidate orders.

• May act as a statistician and brief staff requesting logistics services on tools and processes.

• Ensures that the priorities set by the Logistician are followed.

• Keeps those requesting services regularly informed about progress on their requests.

• Records and files documents pertaining to the ordering process; registers and transmits claims and remarks from those requesting services.

• Regularly analyses the supply-chain workload and proposes potential improvements, including to the customer service policy.

• Updates logistics dashboards, analyses trend and provides statistics.

• Contributes to supply-chain support for an assigned geographical area or specific group of products.

• Supervise and appraise one or several Supply-Chair Administrators 1 and forecaster.

   

Supply Chain Administration/Customer Service Desk and Planner

• Receives, plans and prioritizes orders (all Sx, OPs) from departments, sub-delegations and other sites and ensures a good electronic and hard filing of the SR's.

• Creates a ticket in STM for those SRs created in JDE and Oscar Light and sends for validation to the concerned unit when necessary and requested

• Decides procurement mode in collaboration with Purchasing, Warehouse, IMPEX, Transport, LOG SCA GVA, LOG SCA LON and the requester: Local Procurement Request, Stock Requisition, Requisition Order to GVA or LON, IT or admin stock

• Acknowledges reception of SRs, indicating sourcing and approximate time of delivery. Keep on informing requesters on the status of their SRs, on an ad hoc/request basis or regularly, once every two weeks.

• Ensures all the duties, responsibilities and activities of planner are executed

• Operates all the necessary activities of a planner like generating Material Resource Planning (MRP)

• Ensures MRP are generated, all types Orders are released to purchasers and related activities are taken place.   

• Follows up procurement with purchasers to make sure deadlines are met; Informs requester in case of problems.

• Liaises with Dispatch and Transport to decide on Transport mode and prioritize dispatch of cargo.

• Follows up acknowledgement of reception of goods and services are done by all requesters in Oscar Light.

• Communicates with GVA and LON concerning Orders status report.

• Makes sure financial rules are applied (Petty Cash, HOD validation, PO, AoE…)

• Collaborates with Statistician for any requested information.

• Follows eventual problems and suggests improvement in any part of the supply chain.

• Replaces customer service desk and forecaster in their absence.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES

• Follows up on all work-related messages and correspondence with the relevant contacts and departments

• Is aware of the delegation’s objectives and has a good knowledge of the Movement and other contacts relevant to the position

• Collects and shares information to improve the ICRC’s understanding of the environment and humanitarian trends and responses

• Represents the ICRC in an appropriate way during activities, in meetings and in the field, and avoids any activity that may reflect negatively on the ICRC’s image

• Takes responsibility for their own professional learning and development

• Contributes to the analysis of the security, socio-economic, cultural and political environment relevant to the ICRC and share relevant information with colleagues.

• Reports events and changes within the region that could have an impact on ICRC's activities and hence provides sound elements to the Delegation that allow to establish objectives and priorities.

• Will be engaged in any duties and responsibilities assigned by ICRC when requested and necessary.

• Technical degree in logistics, administration or equivalent.

• Good command of spoken and written English and the local working language.

• Computer literacy; good knowledge of Microsoft Office.

• Knowledge of enterprise resource planning software an asset.

• Technical knowledge of products and services used by the ICRC.

• 6 years overall professional experience, including three years’ successful experience in a supply-chain/logistics department or similar.

• People-management experience an asset.