2 Store Officer NGO Job Opportunities – Action Against Hunger
Job Title: Store Officer (2 Vacancies)
Organisation: Action Against Hunger
Duty Station: Uganda
Starting gross salary: UGX 1,785,000
About us:
Action Against Hunger is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. We save the lives of malnourished children. We ensure families can access clean water, food, training, and health care. We enable entire communities to be free from hunger. With more than 6,500 staff in over 45 countries, our programs reached 14.9 million people in 2015.
About the Programme
Action Against Hunger began its work in Uganda since 1980 in response to famine conditions in the Karamoja Region where we saved the lives of undernourished children while building the capacities of the community. We have been continuously operating in Uganda for the last 22 years delivering interventions in nutrition, WASH and Food Security and Livelihoods. For the last three years and with the same aim of saving lives and empowering the community, we have been working in the Northern part of Uganda to save lives of refugees and host communities while providing long term solutions to hunger. We are currently operating in and around Bidibidi, Kyangwali, Adjumani and Kyriandongo refugee settlements. Some of the major donors we have worked with include but not omitted to, ECHO, DFID, SIDA, WFP, UNCICEF, EUTF and French Embassy.
Job Summary: The Store Officer will monitor community Supplementary Feeding supplies under World Food Programme grant.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Co-ordinate the supply of CBSFP and MCHN food at all distribution points
- Monitor CBSFP and MCHN food stores and ensure that the food commodities are stacked in anorganized manner. In addition, ensure good storage conditions for all food items including NFIs such as pallets are present in the food stores
- In liaison with nutrition officers, submit timely food requests to the DPM for verification and ensure that food is received and delivered at the different distribution sites
- Update stock cards regularly and ensure that the food tracking registers as well as waybills are well documented/filled and archived according to Action Against Hunger standards
- Assist to investigate losses where necessary, document findings, and submit reports on the losses to the managers or health facility in charges where necessary.
- Identify and propose training needs of storekeepers, food distribution assistants and other staffs involved in food utilization.
- Prepare weekly summary reports of daily food transaction/consumption indicating the number of beneficiaries (children, pregnant & lactating mothers and other clients) registered and provided with therapeutic supplies
- Actively engage in post distribution monitoring (PDM) assessments
- Contribute to reporting on project progress, success stories and lessons learned during project implementation.
- Actively participate in events organized in the refugee and host community setting and coordinate with other sections of Action Against Hunger and all other stakeholders in the response
Gender Equality Commitments
- Foster an environment that supports values of women and men, and equal access to information.
- Provide a work environment where women and men must be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance.
- Respect beneficiaries’ women, men, children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation, disability, religion, race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status.
- Value and respect all cultures.
Fiscal Responsibility
- Work closely with the program Manager in updating the project BFU in relation to the activity implementation plan on regular basis, ensuring that relevant documentation on agricultural activities is filed and archived.
Physical Demands
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have field travels up to 60% interfacing with beneficiaries and partly the district agricultural officer/extension staff. 40% of the time will be spent sitting for long hours to concentrate on office work, including typing, and turn out heavy volumes of work accurately, within short time frames under stressful situations in the context of a moderately noisy office with many interruptions. Must be able to proofread own work accurately so that only minor corrections are needed on an infrequent basis.
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Working Conditions, Travel and Environment
The duties of the job require regular job attendance five days per week. Must be available to work outside normal office hours or on the weekends as required.
Must be able to travel as required for standard domestic and international business purposes. While performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well as to infectious diseases.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal applicant must hold s Bachelor degree in food science/food processing technology, Store and records management, Nutrition or related field
- At least 3 years of work experience in IMAM, public health, nutrition, stores management
- Effective communication skills (written and oral) in English
- Knowledge of word processor, spreadsheet and software use like ENA, SPSS plus other programs advantageous
- Demonstrated experience and/or personal commitment to promoting gender equality within the work
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently
- Extremely flexible with the ability to cope with stressful situations
- Excellent reporting skills with good oral and written communication skills
- Knowledge of the local language is an added advantage
- Diplomatic and culturally sensitive
Our Core values
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate Action Against Hunger-USA’s five core values
Respect- we work with compassion and dedication, treating everyone the same way we expect them to treat us.
Integrity-: we believe that being honest and fair is integral to every aspect of our work. conducting our work with a spirit of sincerity, truthfulness and transparency is imperative.
Creativity-we encourage new ideas, embrace innovative solutions, and create opportunities for meaningful and exciting ways to do our jobs and provide solutions to address the needs of the populations we serve.
Excellence– we strive to provide services that meet and even exceed the expectations of our stakeholders (populations in need, staff, communities and donors).
Empowerment- we are committed to fostering an environment in which our staff, partners and communities where we work have the space to grow, develop and feel confident about participating.
What we offer
Action Against Hunger values its employees and offers a comprehensive remuneration and benefits package. These include but are not limited to:
- Health Insurance for you and your dependants
- Resettlement allowance (One off payment)
- Hardship allowance (Context Based )
- Starting gross salary UGX 1,785,000
- Paid annual leave (vacation)
- 13th month pay
- Group Personal Accident
- Training opportunities
How to Apply:
All Interested applicants should send their CV and cover letter to the following email addresses, mentioning the position title in the subject
Adjumani: hrofficer-adj@ug-actionagainsthunger.org
Kyangwali: adminasst-ky@ug-actionagainsthunger.org
Please copy recruitment@ug-actionagainsthunger.org
Deadline: 6th December 2019.