Procurement Services & Logistics Officer

About this role

UNICEF Tanzania is recruiting a Procurement Services and Logistics Officer for its Supply and Logistics team in Dar es Salaam on a temporary NO-1 appointment, post 00138835. Reporting to the Supply and Logistics Specialist, the officer coordinates all transactional aspects of the Procurement Services portfolio and supplies procured for UNICEF programmes and operations. The work involves managing Procurement Services transactions for government partners so that supplies and equipment are procured, imported, cleared, stored and distributed on time, and following up supply financing needs linked to PS transactions with UNICEF's Supply Financing Centre through financing requests and monitoring of funding and repayment timelines. The role also covers import formalities and customs clearance through third party logistics providers, management of UNICEF controlled warehouses, support to national supply chain system strengthening, and dispatch to partners for programmes and emergency responses.

Supplies arrive from local vendors, offshore suppliers and the Copenhagen warehouse by air, land and sea and are stored in UNICEF warehouses in Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and Kasulu. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in supply chain management, logistics, procurement, pharmacy, public health, business administration, law, international trade, social sciences or a related field, plus at least one year of relevant experience in procurement, logistics, customs clearance, warehouse management, import and export, supply financing or health supply chains. Demonstrated capability in customs clearance, warehouse management, planning and cost estimation, knowledge of public procurement processes, strong negotiation skills and fluency in English and Kiswahili are required. Desirable attributes include knowledge of another UN official language, emergency logistics and health supply chain experience, vaccines supply financing, familiarity with Tanzanian regulatory authorities and government procurement, customs brokerage oversight, UNICEF Insight or VISION systems, and country-level work in fragile or humanitarian settings.

The Procurement Services mechanism makes UNICEF's procurement capacity available to partners. Applications go through the UNICEF careers portal and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.