Providing logistics oversight, leadership and coordination for the Humanity and inclusion South Sudan mission.

Provides strategic leadership and direction of all operations activities within eHealth Africa. Oversees, supervises, and coordinates all operation activities of eHA with other departments and outside agencies to ensure accurate, expedient and efficient delivery of services. S/he is responsible for administration, planning, coordination, and implementation of activities in the Operations Department and contributes to the development and implementation of organizational strategies, policies and practicesDevelops and maintains the Operations Department Strategic Plan. Determines and manages budgetary requirements and provides long-range planning for overall operations. Prepares, maintains and monitors the budget. Prepares reports on department operations, activities, and expenditures.Develops and implements policies, procedures and strategies. Establishes appropriate management structure, including respective roles and responsibilities. Establishes and maintains appropriate systems to monitor, evaluate and report on all operational activities.Oversees the development of operational strategy in cooperation with Executive Management. Oversees the planning of operation activities between Department/divisions within eHA, and external government and community organizations.Interfaces with eHA departments to ascertain and provides related technical guidance and assistance. Ensures that departments/projects/programs requests are resolved and communicated in a timely manner.Attends and participates in professional associations, meetings, seminars, conferences and trainings to stay abreast of new trends and innovations in the field of Operations.

1. Undertakes to assist the inProgress trainer by providing logistics and administrative support for and during training sessions of training project in Freetown2. Responsible for assisting the trainer in delivering the course with the written material and exercises provided by inProgress as a support and assistant instructor.3. Responsible to provide support in evaluating trainees during the practical workshops, with reference to evaluation questions that are provided by inProgress. Also responsible to collate and submit all evaluation grids to inProgress.4. Generally responsible to provide and ensure all requirements for the smooth running of trainings are provided and made available

As part of the senior management team, I am responsible to provide the team with efficient logistics capacity to set-up, implement, manage and co-ordinate logistics core competencies for the country of assignment; co-ordinating, managing and maintenance of professional and efficient logistics support services including training and capacity building of supervised staffs.

1. Programme and departmental Strategy Planning and effective execution of departmental functions2. Corporate Policies, Management Systems and Procedures development3. Financial Management & Accounting ensuring efficient budget management4. Team Management that includes national and international staff5. Personnel Management of logistics staffs6. External Relationships / Representation at various levels7. Logistics / Technical Sectors as follows:Procurement, Warehousing and Commodity Management, Distribution, Transport / Fleet Management, Communications / Information Technology management, Asset Management, Estate Management and Security management

Procurement & Warehouse Management:3. Fleet Management:4. Estate Management & Asset management5. Management of logistics human resource including identifying training and capacity building requirement and providing training, coaching and mentoring to ensure adequate staff capacity building for effective performance

1. Manages and supervise the procurement process2. Coordinate the supply chain within the programme3. Coordinate the Warehouse/ Stock control and management structure4. Coordinate the management of fleet within the programme5. Manage and maintained an up to date Asset database, also ensuring the programme assets are efficiently maintained6. Maintenance and management of communication equipments7. Security management

Set up a Logistics department with proper systems:As a result of the absence of a logistics department and systems, I was required to ensure that the department is set up together with its systems of management. I was also responsible to ensue that logistics structures are set up together with policies and procedures.Structures and policies are to be set op for the following arms of logistics:Procurement, Supply Management, Warehouse/ Stock control and management, Fleet Management, Asset Management and Security management Help set up efficient Administrative structures:I had a responsibility to support the Country Manager to set up efficient administrative structures and to ensure implementation.

GTZ-MLP/UNHCR: Responsible for the day to day management and operations of UNHCR humanitarian air service providing domestic and international servicesGTZ-MLP/BMZ: Responsible for all administrative functions including visas processing, work and stay permits, driving licenses, police clearance, organisation’s registration and other important personal documents for all international staffs.

 Procurement & Fleet Management Warehouse Management, Communication and IT maintenance