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Role at Kapoeta field office, focusing on logistics, warehousing management, and procurement coordination. Requires NGO experience, local language proficiency, and onsite presence. Eligibility unclear due to ambiguous local-only restrictions.
Last checked: 2 hours ago
Closing date: Friday, 26 June 2026
Country: South Sudan
Duty station: South Sudan
Contract type: Professional
Grade: Not specified
Applicant eligibility: Not explicit in source
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TITLE: Supply Chain Assistant-Warehouse TEAM/PROGRAMME: South Sudan Country Office Program Operations-Team LOCATION: Abyei GRADE: 5
CONTRACT LENGTH: (6 months with possibility of extension)
CHILD SAFEGUARDING: (select only one)
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting the country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE: The Supply Chain Assistant will provide overall day-to-day management responsibility support for the administrative, logistics, and transport of the Kapoeta field office Supply Chain Department (Warehousing).
The Supply Chain Assistant has the responsibility of ensuring the stock at the transit warehouse is managed in line with the stock management guidelines and that records are properly maintained.
S/he will also support the Kapoeta field office in managing administrative functions including office management, security property management, stores, and other related support functions. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Supply Chain Officer
Staff reporting to this post: None
Direct: drivers, security guards
Indirect :
Budget Responsibilities: None
Role Dimensions: The Role holder will be exposed to suppliers and partners like WFP UNHAS, WHO, UNDP, INGOS,…etc and therefore expected to exhibit high-level professionalism while representing SCI.
Warehousing
Ensuring that all incoming and outgoing stock is controlled according to SCI procedures and that all appropriate paperwork is in place.
Making proper arrangements for receiving and dispatching commodities
Ensuring that regular stock reconciliation is carried out and any discrepancies are properly investigated and reported to the budget holders.
Ensuring that all incoming and outgoing stock that are targeted for beneficiary distributions and program use and all GIK are captured into TIM by the Supply Chain Assistant
Endorsing for approval stock movements that have been captured in TIM
Ensuring that stock in TIM and Physical inventory are properly reconciled and are always balancing.
Managing the causal workers during loading and unloading and ensuring their payment is done on time
Ensuring that all procurement is carried out in line with appropriate processes, procedures and documentation in line with Save the Children policies and where required to do so donor rules.
Making sure that order schedules and delivery lead times are met, if not, informing in advance all those that may be affected by the delay.
Ensuring that approved suppliers and framework agreements are used at all times during procurement of goods
Developing and maintaining price lists of all commonly used program supplies
Ensuring that Procurement Requisition have all the necessary information filled including charge code and required signatures.
Ensure procurement is conducted through Prosave.
Providing support and direction to the head driver in transport management and ensuring that they are executed in line with SCI guidelines
Maintaining and updating all required records and paperwork for vehicles and drivers.
Managing fuel and maintenance contracts as needed.
Ensuring that a planned preventative maintenance is carried out on both vehicles and generators to a high standard with minimum disruption to program activities.
Ensuring that all drivers are briefed on and adhere to Save the Children policies and procedures.
Ensuring that fleet report is prepare on time and submitted to line manager for review
Ensuring that the office asset register is well maintained
Ensuring that all assets have been issued a unique identification number and tracked on Asset Register
Regularly updating the asset register whenever transfers, disposal, changes in condition and procurement take place with details of that transfer, disposal etc.
Coordinating a full physical verification of asset register at least once a year to verify that the assets are in place and their condition.
Submitting Monthly Assets verified list to supply Chain coordinator
Human Resources
To be able to organize casual workers when required at the warehouse, and to provide overall supervision and training of other warehouse trainees and casual labour, and ensure that staff assigned to the various stores, keep records of the items offloaded/loaded at the warehouses.
To Assist and coordinate the off-loading of goods on vehicle from or to the warehouse and stacking of the supplies, follow-up tracking of the commodities in pipeline and report to the appropriate personnel.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values
holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners, and supporters
values diversity, and sees it as a source of competitive strength
approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS
Diploma in Public or Business Administration or related Discipline
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
1-3 years of progressive responsibility in Supply Chain and Administration 2 of which are spent in an international development organization
Good organizational and management skills including problem-solving;
Good verbal and written skills in English;
Willingness and ability to work in a collaborative and inclusive manner;
Self-motivated and creative;
Desirable
Representational skills;
NGO experience an added advantage
Knowledge of the local language spoken in an asset.
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience as assigned his line manager.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
JD written by: Date: JD agreed by: Date: Updated By: Date: Evaluated: Date:
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