Warehouse and Transport Officer (Logistics Assistant) at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), is an impartial, neutral and independent organisation whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Yola Sub Delegation is looking for a suitable candidate to fill the vacancy below:

Job Title: Warehouse and Transport Officer (Logistics Assistant)

Location: Yola, Adamawa

Main Responsibilities

• Ensuring proper storage of all goods (protection from heat/water/dirt/vermin, FIFO/FEFO, by group/family, by PO/batch/expiration date) and with up-to-date bin cards
• Be alert on expiration date and report any item (soon to be) expired to the Logistician
• Ensure the clean and safe unloading of arriving consignments, checking for complete accompanied waybills and packing lists, verify number of parcels, signing delivery forms, transferring items into stock, update FSS and bin cards.
• Performing a complete entry inspection and informing Logistician of any discrepancies between packing list, PO, RO and physical consignment
• Ensure to put goods into stock (separately according to batch number, expiry date and Purchase Order reference (number)) together with the respective Bin Cards
• Ensures all consignments are packed and marked appropriately (including transport instructions or warnings and packing of cold chain items in appropriate cold boxes with sufficient ice packs according to the equipment instructions).
• Ensuring all packed consignments are accompanied by accurate and complete packing lists and issuing of a waybill upon loading
• Assist Internal Customers in packaging their shipment for transport by air.
• Ensure all air cargo is properly packaged, labeled and weighted.

Required Qualifications

• Degree or recognized training in Logistics or Administration
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a similar field
• Good command of spoken and written English and Hausa
• Good computer skills (Word and Excel), including the ICRC standard computer systems
• Excellent knowledge of Financial Rules and purchasing procedures

Personal Attributes:

• Proactivity and Flexibility
• Capacity to carry out complex activities
• Good rigor, method and analytical skills
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to work independently and sense of initiative
• Capacity to integrate the ICRC logistics procedures
• Strong sense of responsibility and adaptability
• Willingness and ability to learn

Application Closing Date
16:30 h; 26th January, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their application letter, Curriculum Vitae and contact details of three referees to: [email protected]

Note

• Please clearly indicate "Warehouse and Transport Officer YOLA" as the subject of your application
• Application intended for this role without this subject will not be treated. Late application will not be considered
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
• However, ICRC will not request for any monetary payments from applicants at any stage of the recruitment process