Country Procurement and Logistics Manager

We support people in overcoming emergencies and we strive to guarantee that everyone can have a decent and dignified life as well as opportunities and a better future. We work in more than 20 countries around the world, including in Italy, with more than 166 emergency, humanitarian aid and development projects. Our activities mainly involve women, girls and young people, actors of change in every community for a fairer and more inclusive world.

We operate in several natural and man-made crisis in various regions of the world. The emergency response is composed by multi-sectorial interventions comprising of WASH, EiE, CVA, Food Security, Protection, and others. We operate also in protracted crisis with provision of humanitarian aid through a prevention, emergency relief and rehabilitation approach. In the last 4 years we have strengthened the regions and the countries where we have been working, we have created new programs, developed new quality and compliance systems and now we need new people who want to join us to build the world we want in the coming years. We believe in a world where everyone has equal opportunities and rights and we work everyday to make it happens. Join us.

**Posizione**:
**Position**:Country Procurement and Logistics Manager** **- Roster Africa**

**Reporting Relationship**: Country Representative

**Location**: to be defined according to needs

**Type of contract**: Assignments may range from short-term to long-term, depending on organization needs (from 2 to 12 months)

**Starting date**: according to programme needs

**Application deadline**: 05/11/2025

**ROSTER**

**WeWorld has opened a Roster for Country Procurement and Logistics Managers with strong experience in humanitarian supply chain management.**

Being included in the roster does not guarantee immediate or future collaboration with WeWorld.

Assignments may range from a few months up to one year, depending on specific needs. Locations will primarily be those in Afrifa, where the organization is operating, though other destinations may also be offered (within or without the region).

**Purpose of the Role**

**The Country Procurement and Logistics Manager is responsible for coordinating mission procurement and logistics, ensuring compliance with organisational and/or donor rules and procedures, and providing optimal support to projects and programmes.**

The main responsibilities of the Country Procurement and Logistics Manager include:

- Defining, implementing, and coordinating the procurement and logistics strategy and activities
- Supporting the Country Representative in monitoring mission security
- Designing, initiating, and implementing a training plan for procurement and logistics staff, with a focus on progressive empowerment
- Managing international and national staff, as well as the budget under his/her supervision

**Main tasks and responsibilities**

General Responsibilities
- Ensures adherence to the Global Manuals and guidelines in Country
- Ensures the procurement and Logistics Department and its teams are involved and contributing to every step of the supply chain and project cycle to ensure efficiency
- Implement capacity building sessions for the procurement and logistics team through specific training plans based on periodic capacities assessment
- Ensures the Proc&Log HR setup is proactively and properly sized to the level of operations
- Ensures the team under his/ her supervision respects HR and ethical standards
- Ensures smooth collection and/or dissemination of relevant procurement and logistics information at mission level by maintaining optimal coordination routine system and tools (meetings, reports, situation points)
- Establish and maintain a pro-active inter-departmental communication and collaboration with Finance and Program
- Regularly participate to coordination meetings, workshops, and working groups related to Logistic conducted in Country or online; promote _ad hoc_ meetings with partners and other actors in Country
- Support the Country Representative in conducting Risk Assessment and tailoring Risk Mitigation Measures
- Supporting the implementation of the safety and security of the WeWorld staff and premises, under the supervision of the Country Representative or his/her delegate.
- Provide extended supervision to field offices
- Participates in audits processes, ensuring the logistics and procurement documents are timely available

Procurement
- Supervises and support the management of Procurement Procedures in accordance to WeWorld Global Procurement Manual and Donor Guidelines from the planning to the completion
- Supervise the creation and update of Project Procurement Plan by participating, in coordination with Programme team, in the definition of initial Project Procurement Plans and follow-up updates.
- Directly manages the high value procurement processes and all the other procedures in case of gaps or specific needs
- Establishes Contract Management routine throughout