Supply Chain Project Coordinator – Regional Capacity Strengthening

Job Description

Supply Chain Associate (Capacity Strengthening) SC6 | World Food Programme

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at the World Food Programme, located in Bridgetown, Barbados. The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, focused on saving lives in emergencies and building pathways to peace through food assistance. This role supports the WFP Caribbean Multi-Country Office in coordinating and implementing regional supply chain projects, strengthening capacity to ensure effective and timely humanitarian assistance and preparedness across the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Short-Term, Service Contract Level 6
• Location: In-person Bridgetown, Barbados
• Pay: $6025 monthly
• Mission: To coordinate and support the implementation of regional supply chain projects and activities to enable the effective and timely delivery of project outcomes and operational objectives.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Capacity Strengthening: Support the planning, implementation, and monitoring of supply chain capacity strengthening activities in collaboration with partners, aligning with agreed objectives.
• Solution Development: Analyze country and regional supply chain contexts to identify operational challenges and contribute to developing practical solutions for improved efficiency.
• Initiative Implementation: Assist in the implementation of new supply chain initiatives, tools, and approaches, ensuring coordination with core activities and stakeholders.
• Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to identifying best practices and lessons learned from various sectors, and support knowledge-sharing activities.
• Reporting: Support accurate and timely reporting on supply chain activities, including data consolidation, analysis, and preparation of reports and dashboards.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Post secondary certificate in Supply Chain Management or a related function area, focusing on supply chain, logistics, capacity strengthening, or project coordination.
• Experience: Minimum of six years of relevant experience, including planning, coordinating, and implementing supply chain/logistics capacity-strengthening initiatives and in data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Skills: Coordination, data analysis, stakeholder engagement, organizational skills, ability to manage multiple workstreams, and fluency in both oral and written English.
• Bonus: A post secondary certificate in Project Management or Training and Development, experience in supply chain systems analysis, documenting and sharing best practices, and working in multi-stakeholder environments.