JOB DESCRIPTION

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

27 July 2025-23:59-GMT+02:00 Israel Time (Jerusalem)

WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP”s values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

To learn more about WFP, visit our website: https://www.wfp.org and follow us on social media to keep up with our latest news: YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok.

WHY JOIN WFP?

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

Job Title:  Logistics Assistant

Grade: SC L5

Type of contract: Service Contract                           

Duration:  12 Months

Renewal of contract: Subject to WFP needs, staff performance and the availability of funds

Duty Station: Ashdod

The recommended candidates should perform their duty in “Ashdod“.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world”s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.  Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

WFP, through its dual mandate in humanitarian and development, provides life-saving food assistance to the most vulnerable and food insecure non-refugee Palestinians and works to safeguard livelihoods, build resilience, and reconstitute food systems in vulnerable areas. WFP also lends its technical expertise to support national institutions by strengthening their capacities in responding to shocks and building an inclusive social safety net.

To further strengthen the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, WFP is providing climate-smart agricultural assets such as hydroponics and wicking beds to households to increase their calorie intake and enable them to generate income. WFP also scaled up its resilience-building activities to include greenhouses, vegetable farms, sheep, poultry, and technical and vocational trainings for youth and people with disabilities. These projects reduce people’s vulnerability to external shocks, serve as a safety net, and support livelihoods.

In response to the urgent needs of Palestine, where protracted conflict and economic stagnation have led to widespread food insecurity, WFP delivers life-saving food assistance to the most vulnerable non-refugee Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. To address the ongoing crisis, WFP also focuses on strengthening livelihoods through resilience-building projects such as climate-smart agriculture and vocational training. Additionally, WFP supports national institutions by enhancing their capacity to respond to shocks and build inclusive social safety nets. By extending its systems to humanitarian and development partners, WFP contributes to broader efforts within the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.

JOB PURPOSE

To implement well-defined standard logistics/supply chain processes and activities to enable effective delivery of goods and services for all delivery modalities.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Provide support to ensure the timely facilitation and management of the customs process for WFP food commodities and non-food items as well as coordinate with the concerned WFP staff and stakeholders to ensure customs clearance of commodities.
• Provide support to logistics operations and activities, following standard processes and facilitating, directly or indirectly, the effective delivery of food assistance to beneficiaries.
• Assist in management of commodity accounting data quality and integrity.
• Process documentation for execution of logistics operations (e.g. customs clearance, invoice verification), take appropriate actions to resolve operational issues escalating various issues to the supervisor.
• Liaise with internal and limited number of external stakeholders to support efficient logistics operations management.
• Support the monitoring of WFP trucks including but not limited to reporting of truck and commodity details and cargo status for trucks and commodities crossing through the different border crossings into Gaza and/or support the monitoring of commodities at WFP warehouses including receipt of trucks, counting of WFP commodities received and commodities stored at the WFP warehouses.
• Ensure the Cart Note and/or relevant documentation is completed with correct and accurate information and is passed onto the required stakeholder.
• Identify and report on any supply chain challenges identified at the crossing including but not limited to missing documentation, challenges with monitoring of trucks and commodities and cargo status including any damaged or missing commodities.

* Short Description

• Monitor and follow up with Transporters until safe and timely delivery of WFP cargo is ensured;
• Take pre-emptive action on operational issues;
• Ensure adequate number of trucks for Ashdod shunting operations by timely notification of carriers;
• Consolidate information on daily incidents and notify it to the supervisor and other concerned parties.
• Follow up on the status of individual shipments to ensure compliance with agreed commitments.
• Take corrective action to meet target dates.
• Ensure availability of appropriate documentation.
• Forecast ETA of consignments and prepare timely commodity and truck allocation tables and distribute the information for WFP Field Offices to ensure their timely follow up action

STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area.

Completion of BA degree in Business Administration, project management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, or and related disciplines is desirable.

Experience:

5 years’ work experience in logistics assessments and management, and/ or as a Logistics Assistant, or similar relevant work experience in a private company, humanitarian organization, and dealing with logistics operations, or in any related field of work.

* Desired Experiences for Entry in the Role

• Experience using corporate systems to monitor ongoing shipments, pipeline information, insurance claims, and food stock.
• Experience analyzing data (on commodities, funds, etc.) and drafting reports.
• Experience in measuring service providers’ performance against set KPIs.
• Experience in assisting the preparation of contract documentation.
• Experience in providing technical business support in corporate systems.
• Experience in managing customs procedures and processes.

Language:

– Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Arabic.

– Preferable to have Hebrew language.

** Please add a table to the 1st page of your CV with the following information:

-Place of Residency

-Company/ Organization Name

-Position Title

-Date from-to

• Any application without this table may result of disqualify your application.

** Note: All candidates are requested to fill out their application completely and correctly: to provide full and correct years of experience and obtained educational degree/s, in Workday platform; in the requested fields, in addition to attach the updated and correct CV in English. Any incomplete application will not be considered.

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