Logistics Coordinator – Nigeria Full Time

Position Start Date: 01.02.2025.

Type of contract: CDM

Duration: 9 months

Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria

Status: Unaccompanied

Terre des hommes does not set closing date for this position. Recruitment is on-going until the position is filled

Tdh:

Terre des hommes (Tdh), founded in 1960, is an independent, neutral and impartial Swiss organization committed to bringing meaningful and lasting change to the lives of children and youth, especially to those most exposed to risks. To make a difference, we focus on the areas of maternal and child health, children and youth migration, and access to justice.

Context:

Nigeria is a multicultural country with great disparities between the southern regions of the country, which had experienced and still experiences growth and development and the northern regions, seriously affected after 13 years of violent insurgency, leading to massive humanitarian needs for millions of people and provoking terrible socio-economic inequalities in the region for an important part of the population. In the northeast, especially in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY states), the conflict stemming from the insurgency of non-state armed groups (NSAGs) in continues as intensely as ever. The attacks and insecurity have displaced millions of people, devastated agricultural production and other livelihoods, cut off essential services, and caused a crisis of protection. In 2022, some 8.4 million people of the BAY states will need humanitarian aid. Of these, 2.2 million are internally displaced; 1.5 million are returnees who lack essential services and livelihoods; and 3.9 million are members of communities affected by their hosting of IDPs. About 730 000 people are located in areas inaccessible to international humanitarian actors. Although some retain or have developed a degree of coping mechanisms, most rely at least in part on humanitarian aid.

Tdh has first been established in Abeokuta, in 2008, and implemented development programmes, such as Migration programs. Activities in the South of Nigeria have been closed in 2019. In order to respond to the Lake Chad Basin Crisis, Tdh has established a country office since mid-2017, in Maiduguri, Borno State. Tdh contributes to the crisis’ response by providing child protection services, education in emergencies, wash and nutrition assistance to most vulnerable children and their families.

Moreover, in the line of its expertise and programing positioning at the worldwide level, Tdh also analyzes the situation, as well as the potential response to the crisis on a mid-term basis, regarding the early recovery and nexus approach. Indeed, given its core competencies in term of deployment of a response for primary needs, implementation of development projects, support to the public services and community/social approach of the beneficiaries, Tdh thinks that the organization could have an added value on all the dynamics/programs related to the stabilization or the structuration in other regions of Nigeria.

In terms of Responsibilities:

Under the responsibility of the Country Delegate, the Logistics Coordinator guarantees the logistics performance of the delegation. S/he is in charge of:

• Designing and deployed the logistics strategy at the national level;
• Support programs and projects on all logistical aspects at the various stages of the project cycle (project writing, implementation, reporting);
• Implement and ensure respect of Tdh logistics framework (supply, fleet, equipment, stock, premises, IT…);
• Strengthen logistics capacities, to all Tdh staff and external partners, on Tdh logistics framework (induction, briefings, training in the capital and on bases);
• Coordinates the logistics activities of the delegation in close collaboration with the other departments.
• Providing logistics support to the various field bases, and ensuring the harmonization of practices across delegation;
• Define and implementing internal control mechanisms, processes, and measures to ensure adequate use of Tdh resources and assets.
• Ensure optimization, efficiency, and safety of logistics workflows (both physical and informative);
• Implementing an efficient monitoring system of logistics activities across the delegation.

In collaboration with the Country Delegate and/or the Security Advisor, s/he contributes to the development of the operational security strategy and ensure respect of the security SOPs on the delegation.

S/he hierarchically supervises the coordination’s logistics team and functionally all the delegation’s logistics staff.

The full job description will be shared with the candidates selected to start the recruitment process.

Conditions offered:

• Swiss contract
• Gross monthly salary between 5000 CHF and 5800 x13,36 months
• Insurances: sickness, accident, repatriation
• Annual leaves: 25 days/year
• Transport: Flights to duty station and back

Education :

Master in Logistics / Transport / Administration or any other relevant degree

Profile:

Proven experience as a logistician in an international NGO (minimum 5 years);

Experience in an emergency or unstable security context;

Experience in team management and experience in training/capacity building desired;

Mastery of logistics procedures;

Mastery of donor procedures (ECHO, OFDA, UNICEF, etc.).

Languages

English and local languages, French is an asset

IT Knowledge

Mastery of the usual tools

Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies:

• Fully complies with Tdh’s Global Code of Conduct and systematically reports any breach to the Code through the whistleblowing procedure, raises awareness within the Foundation on abuse and violence and the rights deriving therefrom, respecting the rights and dignity of children, members of the communities and our own Staff
• Commits to respecting Risk Management Policies including: Safeguarding Policies (Child Safeguarding Policy, Policy on the Protection against Sexual Exploitation and the Directive on Staff Misconduct at the Workplace), Safety and Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption and Prevention of the Financing of Criminal Activities Policies
• Commits to reducing the risk of abuse and harm by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we intervene in.

We offer an exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, in a team that wants to make a difference for vulnerable children.

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