Location: Dollo Ado, Ethiopia
Organization: Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Deadline: June 25, 2025, 07:30 AM
Job Description
Role and responsibilities
The purpose of the Logistics Team Leader position is planning, organizing and coordination of the logistics and procurement duties, functions and responsibilities to ensure efficient and effective delivery of goods and services in support of programme implementation in NRC.
Generic Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with NRC policies, guidelines and standards.
- Specific technical responsibility for implementation of the support functions
- Provide specific technical support and capacity building towards support staff.
- Monitor the progress of team activities and ensure they are implemented according to standards.
- Implement complex systems and procedures in line with NRC policies, SOP’s, and handbooks.
- Line management of Logistics team
- Compliance with and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and handbooks and donor/auditor requirements
- Responsible for ensuring quality support to project implementation effectively and efficiently.
- Ensure proper filing of all logistics documents and the implementation of SSD Policy (Securing Support Documents) including programme reconciliation of deliverables.
- Responsible for technical capacity building of Logistics staffs
Specific Responsibilities
- Ensure the NRC asset list is up to date and accurate at both area and field level.
- Oversee all logistical procedures are followed by the projects.
- Check all logistic folders and documents before signature to ensure they are in line with NRC regulation and with donor’s regulation Record personal location tracking for both national and international, leave records.
- Check all logistic-related contracts are in line with NRC guidelines and procedures.
- Ensure that transparency and accountability are always met within our procurement procedures and within logistic procedures.
- Setup Long Term Agreement (LTA) or Framework Agreement (FWA) in area and field level as required and feasible
- Schedule and ensure maintenance, refurbishment and property repairs for premises rented by NRC.
- Respond fully to spot checks on transactions and have a particular responsibility towards maintaining transparency and accountability within logistics and procurement.
- Ensure quality and cost efficiency for procurements at area and field level.
- Prepare and submit logistic related reports in line with donor’s requirement in timely manner. Assist Logistic Coordinator in preparing reports for donors and audit purpose when required.
- Regular field visits for logistics compliance spot check and to provide necessary trainings.
- Ensuring quality supports to project implementation analyzing all logistical supports and data, monitor all support functions and prepare appropriate reports for same.
- Develop and maintain a database of records to ensure smooth delivery for all projects
- Ensure proper filing of all logistics documents in all offices as well as on NRC’s cloud-based filing tree storage system O365
- Other additional task assigned by line manager.
Qualifications
- Competencies
(i) Professional Competencies
- Minimum 5 years of experience of logistics and supply chain in humanitarian sectors
- Bachelor Degree in logistics or supply chain management
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Documented results related humanitarian logistics management and supply chain system
- Local context knowledge of private & public services network
- Sufficient in English language proficiencyin both written and verbal
Context/Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
- Initiative/Innovative skills and sufficient ICT knowledge
- Ability of contextual skills, analytical skills and problem solving skills
- Organizational management skills and efficiency of handling multi-tasks
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision
- Knowledge on standard safety and security concerns, local contexts, and geographic locations
Behavioural Competencies
- Planning and delivering results through others
- Managing resources to optimize results
- Empowering and building trust
- Performing and prioritizing well under pressure
- Communicating with impact and respect
- Handling insecure environments
About Us
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.
Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world’s most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.
At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.
Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to:
• treat everyone with respect and dignity
• contribute to building a safe environment for all
• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH)
• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH.