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WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.
ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to end global hunger. 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.
In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their shattered lives. Present in nearly 80 countries, the organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to nutritious food and contribute to the lasting solutions, especially in many of the world's most remote and fragile areas. We manage an operating budget of approximately $5.9 billion each year, distributing 12.6 billion rations to those most in need. We reach an average of 80 million people with food assistance in around 80 countries each year. The World Food Programme office in Johannesburg is a Regional Office coordinating and supporting the delivery of humanitarian assistance to 13 Southern Africa countries including, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana, Malawi, Madagascar, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Brazzaville, Tanzania, Angola.
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WHY WORK WITH US
This is an opportunity for an exciting and challenging position in a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary team, on a topic with high relevance. In addition, we offer:
xe2x9exa1xefxb8x8fMeaningful and impactful careers: Our day-to-day work makes a difference in the lives of the people we serve
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xe2x9exa1xefxb8x8fMulticultural and stimulating work environment: We encourage gender and cultural diversity to make our teams stronger
BACKGROUND
The Logistics Cluster enables global, regional and local stakehholders to meet humanitarian needs. Before crises, the Cluster works with the stakeholders in high risk countries and regions to strengthening national supply chain resilience, enhancing coordination and promoting a common methodology towards logistics preparedness among the humanitarian community. In crises, where these capacities have been exceeded, leadership, coordination, information and operational services are provided. The World Food Programme (WFP), as the lead agency, hosts the Global Logistics Cluster (GLC) Support Team in its headquarters in Rome, Italy, as part of the Humanitarian Logistics Services (HLS) in WFP Supply Chain Operations Division. HLS focuses on supporting and enabling other humanitarian and development actors.
The GLC Support Team is comprised of a diverse, multi-skilled group of logisticians and is mandated by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) to complement and co-ordinate the logistics capabilities of co-operating humanitarian agencies during large-scale complex emergencies and natural disasters.
The GLC Support Team facilitates the process of convening the Cluster community, supports the development of the strategy, including a strong preparedness component, and its implementation in accordance with identified objectives and priorities. The Support Team is accountable to the Logistics Cluster stakeholders and reports on the progress made against the strategy twice a year during the Logistics Cluster Global Meetings. The GLC Support Team also provides training, guidance, support and logistics surge capacity to the active cluster operations, reinforcing the capacity of staff on the ground.
JOB PURPOSE
The Information Management Officer (IMO) will contribute to the implementation of the GLC Work-plan and Logistics Cluster Strategy in Southern Africa by ensuring that Logistics Cluster activities at regional level (Regional Bureau, Johannesburg, RBJ) meet the expectations of partners and donors for logistics preparedness, training and operational support through information management. The IMO will contribute to GLC activities at regional level such as supporting the Logistics Cluster Community of Partners, partnership networks, information provision, trainings, and preparedness activities. The IMO reports to the RBJ's Regional Logistics Cluster Officer while maintaining close working relationship with the Regional Supply Chain Officer, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and technical liaison with Senior Information Management Officers and the Head of Information Management within GLC at Headquarters level.
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