WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis. We are committed to promoting diversity and the principle of equal employment opportunity for all our employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of religion or belief, ethnic or social background, gender, gender identity and disability.
ABOUT WFP:
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:
The hunger crisis in Afghanistan is unfolding at a rapidly, with over half the country’s population of 40 million now facing acute food insecurity—the highest number the humanitarian community has ever seen in Afghanistan. Work opportunities are shrinking, with most households now reporting just one day of work per week. This comes on top of the worst drought in years, which is especially concerning for the 85 percent of the population who rely on agriculture for livelihoods.
Preventing and mitigating a drastic increase in hunger and malnutrition is the aim of WFP in Afghanistan which can only be achieved through the scaled up and sustained complementary food security and nutrition interventions, combined with a scale-up of resilience interventions to safeguard gains. WFP has embarked on a significant month on month scale-up of its crisis response and resilience programmes across the country, ensuring that the programme is delivered at the right scale and time, targeted to the right areas. WFP is also actively following up on evolving trends to pre-empt hotspots, while guaranteeing quality and maximum impact of the programme through the monitoring of these hotspots to be able to support continued donor advocacy.
The Role:
WFP requires two Logistics Assistant (FSQ) in Kandahar and Faizabad to deliver food safety and quality (FSQ) related support to Area office/Country Office supply chain and program team.
Key Accountabilities:
- Implement and monitor application of protocols to ensure that food safety and quality principles are followed across the supply chain.
- Visit producers/traders contracted by WFP to oversee the production operation ensuring compliance with WFP requirements.
- Perform Warehouse inspection to potential vendor as part of their technical assessment before inclusion in WFP roster.
- Conduct regular warehouse inspection in WFP facilities making sure that commodity management principles are followed.
- Conduct unannounced visits to suppliers’ production sites to verify the inspection activities of inspection company as per daily inspection reports/checklists.
- Visit Food Distribution Points/Cooperating Partners (FDPs/CPs) making sure that indoor food management/handling processes follow WFP Expectations/standards.
- Act as focal point for food incident management support in case of any query or support needed from Supply Chain or programme unit.
- Consolidate technical recommendations reports and follow up with supplier to implement these improvements within set time frame.
- Provide a set of standard business support activities, where required, to contribute to the effective functioning of business operations.
Education: Completion of secondary school.
Experience: Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and local languages (Pashto/Dari).
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:
This vacancy announcement is for Afghan nationals only and WFP encourages especially Afghan females and Afghans with disabilities to apply.
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