Chief of Section, Supply Chain Management

Leads UNSOH’s integrated supply chain and service-delivery function, aligning plans, resources, budgets and performance controls across logistics and operational support while advising mission leadership and partners on resilient, cost-effective support to Haiti operations.

Department: Supply Chain Management Service

• Develop and implement integrated supply chain and service-delivery plans, forecasts and priorities
• Coordinate mission supply chain strategies and consolidate required human and financial resources
• Optimise critical supply chain processes, resolve bottlenecks and establish performance indicators
• Exercise managerial control over logistics, technical and operational support services
• Allocate budgets, personnel and assets across mission components and reprioritise resources when required
• Set supply chain policies, standards and controls for budgeting, accounting, procurement and asset management
• Advise mission leadership and coordinate support with headquarters, service centres and civilian, police and military components
• Lead senior staff performance, training, welfare, discipline and operational accountability

• Advanced university degree in supply chain management, business administration, management or a related field, or a first-level degree with two additional years of qualifying experience
• Ten years of progressively responsible experience across at least three supply chain areas
• Four years of supply chain management experience including two years managing international supply chain operations
• Experience managing complex supply chain operations in a conflict or post-conflict environment with scarce resources
• Experience planning, deploying or sustaining field operations
• English at UN Level II in reading, writing, listening and speaking

• Port-au-Prince is a non-family duty station
• Temporary deployment for three months pending formal funding and staffing approval
• Professional mission applicants cannot be nationals of the duty-station country