Logistic Assistant at Oxfam Great Britain
- Company: Oxfam Great Britain
- Location: Ethiopia
- State: Addis Ababa Jobs
- Job type: Full-Time
- Job category: Administrative/Secretarial Jobs in Ethiopia
Job Description
Oxfam is a global community that believes poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s rights activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers, and more.
And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.
Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation Oxfam.
OUR VALUES AND COMMITMENT TO SAFEGUARDING
Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organization.
OUR WORK IN ETHIOPIA
Since the early 1970s, we have been working to address the underlying causes of poverty and marginalization by focusing on developing sustainable livelihoods, providing water and sanitation, agriculture, climate research, gender, and humanitarian issues.
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| TEAM PURPOSE:
The Logistics Team is accountable for ensuring that all operation procedures of Administration and Logistics are adhered to and implemented in a manner that is compliant with Oxfam policies, standards, and procedures. In particular, the team provides professional, business focussed service on logistics, delivering proactive and solutions-based approach for resolving issues. The team will also ensure that the operational business requirements are effectively managed to deliver organisational results and support the achievement of programme outcomes. JOB PURPOSE: The main purpose of the Logistics Assistant is to work as part of the logistics team, managing all responsibilities related to supply, warehouses, and fleet as well as dispatching of goods. Logistics Assistant is responsible for ensuring quality in supply chain management support across the Ethiopia programme. Where appropriate, the logistics Assistant will provide support to field teams through assessment and accompaniment. |
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| POST HOLDER REPORTS TO | Camp Focal Person |
| JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST | Driver, Cook/Cleaner and Office Security guards |
| BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY | No |
| MATRIX MANAGEMENT | Senior log. Officer – based in Gambela |
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
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person specification |
Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam GB needs to be able to:
- Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, SOLIDARITY, COURAGE, AND EQUALITY
Our Values
- Equality: We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and opportunities.
- Empowerment: We acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them.
- Solidarity: We join hands, support, and collaborate across boundaries in working towards a just and sustainable world.
- Inclusiveness: We embrace diversity and difference and value the perspectives and contributions of all people and communities in their fight against poverty and injustice.
- Accountability: We take responsibility for our actions and inaction and hold ourselves accountable to the people we work with and for.
- Courage: We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes.
- THREE ORGANISATIONAL ATTRIBUTES:
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1. Be committed to equal opportunities: demonstrating sensitivity to culture differences and gender equality. 2. Be willing to learn and apply gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity and inclusion across all aspects of your work. 3. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible. - Ensure you actively ADOPT OXFAM’S FEMINIST LEADERSHIP APPROACH and applying the principles and twelve practices in your work. Read more about this here:
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For this role, we have selected two of the most relevant feminist Leadership practices for this role (which you can read more about here. 1 Self-Awareness
2 Mutual accountability
3 Strategic Thinking and Judgment
- SKILS, Experience, Knowledge & Competencies
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Essential - Bachelor (BA) Degree from a recognised university/college in supply and logistics Management or any other areas that can bring an added value to the post.
- Relevant Supply and logistics management experience of 2 – 3 years, in an international NGO like Oxfam.
- Ability to adjust to constantly changing situations while maintaining focus on delivery and follow-through supply and logistics requirements.
- Able to work with little supervision, being innovative and use initiative to a good degree.
- Strong interpersonal skills, sensitivity to cultural differences and ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts.
- Experience and training of supply and logistics management system soft wares.
- Technical skills of fleet management software/system like TrackPoint and GPS.
- Data management and reporting skills
- Competent in the use of computers and Microsoft Office applications including word-processing (Word) and Excel.
- Sympathy with the aims and objectives of Oxfam
- Commitment to humanitarian principles and action
- Commitment to Oxfam’s equal opportunity and gender policies. Demonstrated experience of integrating gender and diversity issues into logistics programmes
Desirable - Knowledge of the field of international development and human rights
- Knowledge of Oxfam systems in logistics
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