SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATION MANAGER

Job Description

At CARE, we seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live with dignity and security. This has been our vision since 1945, when we were founded to send lifesaving CARE Packages® to survivors of World War II. Today, CARE is a global leader in the movement to eradicate poverty. In 2015, CARE worked in 95 countries and reached 65 million people with an incredible range of life-saving programs. We also put women and girls at the center of our work because we know that we cannot overcome poverty until all people have equal rights and opportunities. We seek dynamic, innovative thinkers to further our mission. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.

CARE is working in Syria to support vulnerable women, men, girls and boys affected by the ongoing civil war. We work both through partners and through direct delivery of humanitarian assistance across different parts of Syria. In addition, CARE supports livelihoods recovery and resilience programming across Syria. Most of our work is through cross border, remote-managed assistance modalities from neighboring countries, working closely with Syrian civil society organizations. Currently CARE’s core sectors in Syria are Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL), WASH and Protection, working with over 120 staff in hubs across the region.

CARE operates and manages a program in North East Syria (NES) with a strategic focus on provision of humanitarian assistance (FSL, WASH, NFIs, etc.) and resilience centered programming with a key focus on livelihoods and food security. The NES program provides emergency response with a mixed approach of directly implementation and providing managing food distribution program through a local service provider. On-going monitoring is being done by both by CARE staff and the local service provider contracted in locally in North East Syria. And CARE will continue and strengthen a mixed hybrid implementation modality.

CARE is seeking a Supply Chain Operations Manager to consolidate and build the capacity of CARE’s support team in Northeast Syria. The Supply Chain Operations Manager work closely with the existing logistics, procurement, admin and IT sections, mentoring and coaching the teams while at the same time ensuring that the NES Hubs programs are fully and efficiently supported to carry out their work. He/She will play a key role in refining and improving the Hub logistics, procurement and admin systems and ensuring that all Hub Staff become familiar with and understand the systems. He/She will participate in the Hub Senior Management team and contribute to the overall programmatic and operational strategy for the Hub.

The Supply Chain Operations Manager will initially be based in CARE’s hub office in NES. The Supply Chain Operations Manager reports to the NES Hub Area Director.

Responsibilities:

• Mentoring, Capacity Building and Management of the NES Hub supply chain sections
• Overseeing Supply Chain operations
• Facilities and travel Management
• Asset Management and Compliance
• Coordination and Overall Hub Management
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree, in Logistics, Business Administration, Management, International Economics, Engineering, International Development, Contract/Commercial Law or areas directly related to logistics operations. or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• At least 5 years humanitarian field experience in Logistics, Procurement and Admin
• Experience in developing or refining Logistics and procurement Policies
• Experience in protracted conflict environments
• Experience in mentoring and coaching national staff

About the Organization

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of disease, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.

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