HI in Uganda is currently implementing development and humanitarian interventions in six sectors/thematic areas: Livelihood, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), Physical and Functional Rehabilitation, Inclusive Education, Inclusive Health, and Inclusive Humanitarian Action (IHA) to improve access and quality of services to the most vulnerable people including persons with disabilities promoting a more inclusive and harmonious society.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsibility 1: Management

• Manager as a role model: embodies HI’s values on a daily basis.
• Manager as coach for meaning: understands the strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for his or her team, leads the necessary changes. Gives meaning to each management action. Encourages inter and intra departmental exchanges of practice. Encourages innovation and risk-taking.
• Operational manager: organizes the operational management of his or her team, structures the work around identified processes, steers performance and facilitates the resolution of problems.
• Manager 1st HR& Coach: contributes to the development of his or her staff, creating the conditions for their commitment, professionalism and attachment to HI. Ensures compliance with the code of conduct of institutional policies, the state of mind and the expected individual and collective behaviour.

Responsibility 2: Participates in drafting the Procurement section of the StratOP and implements its action plan

• RISKS: produces and updates the risk map for his or her area of responsibility and proposes and implements corrective mitigation measures;
• INCIDENTS: drafts the incident reports for his or her area of responsibility;
• INDICATORS: produces, compiles and analyses the data in the procurement dashboard for his or her geographical area;

Responsibility 3: Deploys HI’s standards and contributes to its expertise and accountability within his or her remit:

• STANDARDS: ensures compliance with and application of HI standards for his or her entire professional field with regard to policy, processes and tools;
• INTERNAL CONTROL: supervises internal control in his or her fields of activity;
• ACCOUNTABILITY: guarantees compliance with and the application of internal rules and the rules of institutional donors in his or her fields of activity;

Responsibility 4: Operational implementation of logistics:

• Design phase – Resources planning:
• Helps establish the project’s procurement schedule;
• Launch phase – Procurement planning
• Takes part in defining the procurement strategy;
• Implementation phase – Coordination:
• Helps adjust the procurement plan after every project review;
• Closure phase
• Contributes to the preparation of financial reports.

Responsibility 5: Facilitates the Logistics profession’s development and contributes its development across the organisation

• Participates in the facilitation of the profession sector in his or geographical area (community of practice)

Responsibility 6: Emergency Preparedness and Response Responsibilities

• Leads the emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian imperative, in order to ensure HI’s quick and efficient response.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Logistics and Or Supply Chain Management
• At least five (5) years’ working experience in a similar role in a non-governmental organisation
• Must be proficient in procurement management, Emergency response handling, and humanitarian response handling
• Practical experience in supply planning and purchasing
• At least three (3) years’ experience in team management
• Knowledge of stock management