[Hiring] Supply Chain Officer @World Food Programme

Role Description

The purpose of this consultancy is to provide dedicated operational and coordination support to the management of WFP Afghanistan’s food operations routed via Jebel Ali, ensuring timely, compliant, and cost‑effective movement of food commodities from arrival at port through onward delivery to Afghanistan.

The consultant will serve as focal point for the Afghanistan–Jebel Ali pipeline, supporting planning, execution, monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting of food movements, while strengthening coordination between WFP Afghanistan CO, UNHRD Dubai, and relevant internal and external stakeholders.

The assignment is critical to help Afghanistan CO prevent pipeline breaks, reduce demurrage, detention, and avoidable costs, strengthen accountability and visibility over high‑value food movements, allow Afghanistan CO to maintain focus on in‑country delivery and programmatic priorities.

Qualifications

• Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, International Relations, Business Administration, or a related field (A first‑level university degree with additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree).
• Minimum 5 years of experience in humanitarian logistics, supply chain operations, or emergency response.
• Proven experience dealing with international supply chains, preferably involving multimodal operations, working with or managing freight forwarders relations or key accounts.
• Demonstrated experience working with UN agencies, and familiarity with WFP/UNHRD operations is a strong asset.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of humanitarian logistics, contracting, and freight forwarding.
• Very good analytical and organizational skills, with attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure, manage competing priorities, and respond rapidly to operational changes.
• Ability to work with different stakeholders both internal and external to the Organization.
• Proficiency in standard WFP systems and reporting tools is an asset.
• Fluency in English required; knowledge of other UN working languages is an advantage.

Benefits

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• We offer an attractive compensation package.