Entry Level UN Warehouse Assistant Jobs – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Job Title:        Warehouse Assistant
Organization: United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Job Number: 504899
Reports to: Deputy
Representative
Grade: P-5
About US:
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is mandated by the UN
general assembly to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help
meet their basic needs and expand their opportunities to reach their full
potential. Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories
to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on
reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all
children, everywhere.
Job Summary: The Warehouse
Assistant will support the United Nations UNICEF officer by taking charge of
the responsibility of receiving, storage and dispatch of all local and offshore
supplies from the UNICEF warehouse.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:  
  • The incumbent will receive and verify
    quantities, and quality of all incoming materials to the warehouse
    according to packing lists, waybills and or purchase orders and report
    discrepancies if any.  Also to
    ensure that supplies are appropriately stored for easy identification and
    retrieval.
  • Prepare and submit monthly inventory
    reports on stock status: receipts, issues and stock balances by project
    and commodity.
  • The jobholder will also ensure appropriate
    stores documentation for receipt and release of materials: stores
    requisitions, waybills, delivery notes and to keep record of same.
  • Compile monthly, debit notes for services
    provided by secondary contractors for payment: (ancillary staff etc.)
  • Carry out periodic physical inventory of
    stocks and report discrepancies if any.
  • Manage the logistics of loading and
    unloading supplies for distribution.
  • Ensure adequate security arrangements are
    in place for safety of supplies in the warehouse.
  • Supervise warehouse clerk and ancillary
    staff.
     
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The ideal candidate for the United Nations
    UNICEF Warehouse Assistant job placement should have completed secondary school
    education supplemented with a course in stores management.
  • At least four years working experience in
    store keeping in a large organisation.
  • Familiarity with emergency is considered
    an asset.
  • Good knowledge of English is required.
    Proficiency in local languages an asset.
  • Core Values (Required):
    Commitment; Diversity and Inclusion; Integrity
  • Core Competencies:
    Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results
  • Functional Competencies:
    Analyzing, Learning and Researching, Planing and Organizing, and Following
    Instructions and Procedures
NB: UNICEF is committed
to gender equality in its mandate and its staff; qualified female candidates
are strongly encouraged to apply. UNICEF is a smoke free environment.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested Ugandan Nationals who wish to
join the United Nations UNICEF in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to
apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 13th June 2017

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