STOREKEEPER – Berbera

Vacancy Announcement

Job Title: STOREKEEPER

Contract Type/Grade: Service Contract (SC4)

Duty Station: Berbera

Contract Duration: 1Yr (initial)

Date of Issue: 21st June 2023 | Closing Date: 4th  July 2023

What will you do?

• Effectively receive/dispatch commodities including transhipment (truck to truck) against official approved documentation (e.g., waybills and/or delivery notes) ensuring accuracy in the physical count of commodities including the quality in compliance with the established standards.
• Coordinate inland, overland, and local dispatches within the agreed timeline and report any exceptions to the supervisor.
• Prepare, verify, and sign off warehouse and transport documents, and maintain confidential files and accurate warehouse transaction records to ensure immediate reporting on commodity movements in line with the corporate requirements.
• Conduct daily  warehouse  closing  reconciliation  and  accurate  inventory  checks supporting internal control systems in compliance with the warehouse management requirements.

• Perform daily inspections and prepare reports on the quantity and quality of the commodities received/dispatched and handled, detect promptly, and analyse reasons for stock discrepancies/damages, investigate the missing quantity and prepare warehouse loss reports recommending appropriate solutions, to enable informed decision-making.
• Manage Non-food items, issuance and receipt, inventory, and reporting of such items
• Implement appropriate measures to safeguard food and non-food commodities, to ensure quality control using standard preventive measures in line with WFP established procedures and authorization received from the supervisor.
• Monitor the condition of the warehouse and commodities and take appropriate actions, to support efficient warehouse space-planning and well-organized commodity storage following WFP warehouse standards.
• Support other areas of logistics operations including port operations when required by the supervisor.
• Provide guidance and on-the-job training to warehouse staff and contractors to contribute to their development and high performance.
• Any other task assigned by the supervisor