Job Title:  Tally Assistant 

Job Level: SC-2 (Service Contract) / National Position

Number of openings: 02

Unit/ Division: Supply Chain

Contract duration: 12 months

Duty station: Mutengene

About WFP

Assisting almost 100 million people in around 83 countries each year, 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.

Our mission is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.

Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Organizational context

In Cameroon, the WFP Cameroon Country Strategic Plan [CSP] (2018 - 2021 endeavours to ensure that targeted food-insecure and vulnerable populations benefit from more sustainable and inclusive food systems and increased resilience to shocks to meet their food and nutrition needs. Under this CSP, WFP will design and implement interventions to address food and nutrition security challenges, from production through to consumption.

In line with the CSP, WFP will apply its vast comparative advantages including experiences in delivery of food assistance to hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable in timely, innovative, cost effective and sustainable ways, its deep field presence, logistics and supply chain, partnerships and relationships with national and regional authorities to; a) strengthen national systems and capacities to deliver food and nutrition security; b) contribute to greater efficiency in crisis response interventions; c) ensure access to nutritious food rather than provision while building the national capacities and systems for social protection, emergency preparedness and response and government-led programmes and services; and d) increase resilience by focusing on food systems  rather than access to food, through development of integrated solutions that can be scaled up by Government and the private sector. 

World Food Programme Cameroon implements operations in different regions of the country including South-West and North-West Regions. In the South-West region, WFP has a Field Office located in Buea (Fako division) and is responsible for operations in the region. WFP is providing food assistance to about 80,000 beneficiaries assisted through General Food Assistance, Nutrition and Cash Based Transfers under COVID19 support. To better position it to serve the population assisted, WFP has established a warehouse at Mutengene for storage of food from the Douala corridor and to facilitate dispatches in the whole region.

What will you do?

This job is found in WFP warehouse in Mutengene. Job holders report to the Warehouse Manager/Storekeeper, Assistant/Associate or the designate. Job holders are exposed to all phases of the warehouse operations and work under supervision.

Why work with us?

• WFP provides food assistance to more than 86 million people in 83 countries, including Cameroon. Your work will have a positive impact on lives of the world’s most vulnerable people.
• You will join a diverse team of professionals and will have an opportunity to exchange your experiences with your colleagues and continuously learning from each other.
• WFP invests in the training and development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, mentorship and other programs as well as through international mobility opportunities.
• Our team is growing nationally and internationally and the timing to join us cannot be better!

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Key Responsibilities (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):

The following are the key deliverables:

• Tally receipt/dispatch of commodities including transformation of commodities during internal milling operations, identify and report to the supervisor any anomalies, to support accurate and effective commodity management in the warehouse.
• Implement and maintain accurate stacking and assist in conducting periodic physical inventory checks following the established guidelines and standards, to support compliance with internal control procedures and systems.
• Prepare accurate tally reports including efficient preparation and distribution of tally sheets to relevant parties, to ensure consistent and prompt accountability for commodity movement from/to and storage in the warehouse.
• Supervise the warehouse cleaning after loading/unloading and reconstitution exercises, to ensure WFP warehouse meets the established standards.

Qualifications and Key requirements

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A certificate in the related functional area (Supply chain, etc.) with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.

Experience:  2 years of work experience in logistics, supply chain or relative business stream.

Knowledge& Skills:

•   Experience in conducting basic logistics activities.
•   Demonstrated competence in use of spreadsheets, data presentation and reporting skills.
•   Experience in stock receipts and dispatches is desirable.

Language:

• Excellent knowledge of English and/or pidgin. Practical knowledge of French is desirable.

Deadline for application : Date: 8th November 2021 at 11:59 PM

This position open to Cameroonian citizens only.

Terms and Conditions

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting an inclusive work environment in which diversity is valued and where no form of discrimination is tolerated. We aim to achieve parity in our teams in West and Central Africa.

Qualified female applicants are especially encouraged to apply.

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate based on HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.