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26 Apr 2023

Warehouse Keeper – 2 Positions at Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

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Job Description


Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding. For nearly 60 years, CRS has taken the lead in responding to natural and man-made disasters affecting Ethiopia’s most vulnerable communities. Moving beyond emergency response, CRS’ disaster mitigation and recovery projects in drought and flood-prone areas have rebuilt individual and community assets through non-food aid in the form of agriculture, livestock, health, nutrition, and water and sanitation assistance. CRS’s humanitarian work in Ethiopia also provides livelihoods support to farmers and entrepreneurs, promotes equality and inclusion, and mitigates the impact of COVID-19.

As part of CRS family, you will join the more than 5000 strong and vibrant individuals working globally to accomplish the mission of CRS. CRS/Ethiopia invites you, the qualified candidate, to apply for the following position.

Band: IV

Department: Supply Chain

Employment Term: Definite (One year)

Reports To: Warehouse Officer

Country/Location: CRS Ethiopia/Hawassa
Job Summary:

You will support activities related to warehouse maintenance and goods receipt, storage handling, monitoring, and dispatch in support of the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable. You will help ensure goods entrusted to the organization by donors are maintained applying established standards and in compliance with CRS and donor regulations, and international and local supply chain accountability standards and requirements.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Support the maintenance of warehousing/storage facilities, conducting regular inspection and cleaning of facilities.
  • Preparation of the warehouse/storage facilities for goods receipt and dispatch and assists with loading and offloading activities.
  • To receive CRS food commodities to safeguard with proper handling at his/her custody.
  • dispatch CRS food commodities to different CRS partners, according to the allocation and complying the CRS receiving and dispatching procedure.
  • Ensure to sign on the waybills, Commodity Receipt Form, Dispatch form to acknowledge the receipt and dispatching of the food and submit the summarized daily report to Commodity clerk
  • Checks for possible sign of infestation every day and reports to the office immediately to get fumigation and spray service.
  • Ensures that bin cards are put on respective stacks and balance quantities stated on bin cards are equal to the stack and record any spillage collected in warehouse in the Bin cards
  • Prepare necessary documents for goods receipt, dispatch, damage, loss, and disposal, and file records per established standards.
  • Plan and supervise the work of casual laborers and cleaners

Job Requirements

Education and Experience

  • BA Degree in any Business-related fields from recognized university
  • Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience is required working in humanitarian organization
  • Knowledge and understanding of warehouse and inventory practices.
  • Able to use MS Office Excel and Word.

Personal Skills

  • Ethical conduct in accordance with recognized professional and organizational codes of ethics
  • Good communication and relationship management skills
  • Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented

Required/Desired Foreign Language – English

Travel Required (include percentage of required travel, if applicable) – N/A

Key Working Relationships:

  • Supervisory: None
  • Internal: Clerk, Commodity accounts, Logistics officer, Talley clerk
  • External: Transporter representative, daily laborer, drivers, surveyors

Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff):

These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

  • Trusting Relationships
  • Professional Growth
  • Partnership
  • Accountability




Method of Application

Submit your CV and Application on Company Website : Click Here

Closing Date : 5 May. 2023





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