Duration: 10 months
Location: Remote but must be willing to adapt to New York time zone for schedule
The Position:
The LMA process aims to monitor and strengthen the supply-chains used to safeguard and distribute these essential reproductive health supplies, through a multifaceted approach that allows UNFPA to:
- Increase its visibility of the adequate safeguarding, management, and use for intended purposes of family planning, maternal health, and other programme supplies UNFPA provides.
- Holistically quantify actual fiduciary and delivery risk, to allow for improved programming and better discharge fiduciary duty to the donors that provide the financial resources used to procure the supplies.
- Help UNFPA partners better manage the programme supplies entrusted to them, by identifying supply chain capacity gaps, preventing fraud, and minimizing waste and losses.
- Enforce accountability for the safeguarding, management, and use of the supplies by UNFPA partners.
Scope of Work:
- Quality assure the different LMA deliverables, including Programme Supplies Reports, Supply Chain Maps, and Supply Chain Management Risk Assessments.
- Prepare IP supply-chain management performance scorecards.
- Prepare summaries of issues requiring follow-up, share them with Country Offices and track actions taken.
- Manage consultants deployed to support on-site verifications (Spot-checks).
- Manage the contractual arrangements, budget, training, daily check-ins, and review of final deliverables for Spot-checks.
- Develop remedial action plans for identified problems.
- Answer country office queries related to LMA deliverables.
- Development of LMA reports in Canva highlighting key findings in the process.
- Provide feedback on LMA deliverables and enhance their operability.
- Other tasks as assigned by the LMA Team Lead.
Requirements:
Education
Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree a plus.
Experience
- 2 years of relevant progressively responsible experience in supply chain management, procurement, finance, public health, business, engineering, international development, pharmacy, or reproductive health.
- Fluency in English required. Proficiency in French, Spanish, or Arabic highly desirable.
- Innovative and entrepreneurial attitude – when confronted with problems, finds rapid and developed solutions to address them.
- Can balance the requirements of the LMA Process – ensuring that there is global compliance with UNFPA’s corporate requirements while simultaneously understanding the variety of challenges our country offices face.
- Takes initiative to complete tasks and resolve issues identified without micromanagement.
- Has strong attention to detail.
- Experience and success in managing relationships with a variety of partners, such as audit firms, Ministries of Health, NGOs, senior management etc. an advantage.
How to Apply:
Candidates can apply by sending CV and Cover Letter to mcmanus@unfpa.org with the subject titled "LAST NAME - Consultancy Application 2022"
Disclaimer
UNFPA does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Fraudulent notices, letters or offers may be submitted to the UNFPA fraud hotline http://www.unfpa.org/help/hotline.cfm
In accordance with the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, persons applying to posts in the international Professional category, who hold permanent resident status in a country other than their country of nationality, may be required to renounce such status upon their appointment.
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