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Job Title:  Store Officer (2 Vacancies)

Organisation: Action
Against Hunger

Duty Station: Uganda

Starting gross
salary: UGX 1,785,000

About us:

Action Against
Hunger is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against
the causes and effects of hunger. We save the lives of malnourished children.
We ensure families can access clean water, food, training, and health care. We
enable entire communities to be free from hunger. With more than 6,500 staff in
over 45 countries, our programs reached 14.9 million people in 2015.

 About the Programme

Action Against
Hunger began its work in Uganda since 1980 in response to famine conditions in
the Karamoja Region where we saved the lives of undernourished children while
building the capacities of the community. We have been continuously operating
in Uganda for the last 22 years delivering interventions in nutrition, WASH and
Food Security and Livelihoods. For the last three years and with the same aim
of saving lives and empowering the community, we have been working in the Northern
part of Uganda to save lives of refugees and host communities while providing
long term solutions to hunger. We are currently operating in and around
Bidibidi, Kyangwali, Adjumani and Kyriandongo refugee settlements. Some of the major donors we have
worked with include but not omitted to, ECHO, DFID, SIDA, WFP, UNCICEF, EUTF
and French Embassy.

Job Summary: The Store
Officer will  monitor community
Supplementary Feeding supplies under World Food Programme
grant.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Co-ordinate the supply of CBSFP and
  MCHN food at all distribution points
• Monitor CBSFP and MCHN food stores and
  ensure that the food commodities are stacked in anorganized manner. In addition, ensure
  good storage conditions for all food items including NFIs such as pallets
  are present in the food stores
• In liaison with nutrition officers,
  submit timely food requests to the DPM for verification and ensure that food is received and delivered at
  the different distribution sites
• Update stock cards regularly and ensure that the food tracking
  registers as well as waybills are well documented/filled and archived
  according to Action Against Hunger standards
• Assist to investigate losses where
  necessary, document findings, and submit reports on the losses to the managers or health facility in
  charges where necessary.
• Identify and propose training needs of
  storekeepers, food distribution assistants and other staffs involved in food utilization.
• Prepare weekly summary reports of daily
  food transaction/consumption indicating the number of beneficiaries (children, pregnant &
  lactating mothers and other clients) registered and provided with
  therapeutic supplies
• Actively engage in post distribution
  monitoring (PDM) assessments
• Contribute to reporting on project
  progress, success stories and lessons learned during project implementation.
• Actively participate in events
  organized in the refugee and host community setting and coordinate with other sections of Action Against
  Hunger and all other stakeholders in the response

Gender Equality Commitments

• Foster an environment that supports
  values of women and men, and equal access to information.
• Provide a work environment where women and men must
  be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance.
• Respect beneficiaries’ women, men,
  children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation, disability, religion, race, color,
  ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status.
• Value and respect all cultures.

Fiscal Responsibility

• Work closely with the program Manager
  in updating the project BFU in relation to the activity implementation plan on regular basis,
  ensuring that relevant documentation on agricultural activities is filed
  and archived.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this
  job, the employee is required to have field travels up to 60% interfacing with beneficiaries and
  partly the district agricultural officer/extension staff. 40% of the time
  will be spent sitting for long hours to concentrate on office work,
  including typing, and turn out heavy volumes of work accurately, within
  short time frames under stressful situations in the context of a
  moderately noisy office with many interruptions. Must be able to proofread
  own work accurately so that only minor corrections are needed on an
  infrequent basis.
• The physical demands described here are
  representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the
  essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to
  enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Working Conditions, Travel and Environment

The duties of the
job require regular job attendance five days per week. Must be available to
work outside normal office hours or on the weekends as required.

Must be able to
travel as required for standard domestic and international business purposes.
While performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee may be
exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and/or very basic
living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well as to infectious
diseases.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant must hold s Bachelor
  degree in food science/food processing technology, Store and records
  management, Nutrition or
  related field
• At least 3 years of work experience in IMAM,
  public health, nutrition, stores management
• Effective communication skills (written
  and oral) in English
• Knowledge of word processor,
  spreadsheet and software use like ENA, SPSS plus other programs advantageous
• Demonstrated experience and/or personal
  commitment to promoting gender equality within the work
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and
  make decisions independently
• Extremely flexible with the ability to
  cope with stressful situations
• Excellent reporting skills with good oral
  and written communication skills
• Knowledge of the local language is an added
  advantage
• Diplomatic and culturally sensitive

Our Core values

In this position,
you are expected to demonstrate Action Against Hunger-USA’s five core values

Respect- we
work with compassion and dedication, treating everyone the same way we expect
them to treat us.

Integrity-:
we believe that being honest and fair is integral to every aspect of our work. conducting
our work with a spirit of sincerity, truthfulness and transparency is
imperative.

Creativity-we
encourage new ideas, embrace innovative solutions, and create opportunities for
meaningful and exciting ways to do our jobs and provide solutions to address
the needs of the populations we serve.

Excellence–
we strive to provide services that meet and even exceed the expectations of our
stakeholders (populations in need, staff, communities and donors).

Empowerment-
we are committed to fostering an environment in which our staff, partners and communities
where we work have the space to grow, develop and feel confident about
participating.

What we offer

Action Against
Hunger values its employees and offers a comprehensive remuneration and
benefits package. These include but are not limited to:

• Health Insurance for you and your dependants
• Resettlement allowance (One off
  payment)
• Hardship allowance (Context Based )
• Starting gross salary UGX 1,785,000
• Paid annual leave (vacation)
• 13th month pay
• Group Personal Accident
• Training opportunities

 How to Apply:

All Interested
applicants should send their CV and cover letter to the following email
addresses, mentioning the position title in the subject

Adjumani:
hrofficer-adj@ug-actionagainsthunger.org

Kyangwali:
adminasst-ky@ug-actionagainsthunger.org

Please copy
recruitment@ug-actionagainsthunger.org

Deadline: 6th December 2019.

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