🚨 Deadline: 30 April 2025 – 23:59 GMT+01:00 (Central European Time – Rome)
📍 Duty Station: Worldwide (Rostering Opportunity)
💼 Organization: World Food Programme (WFP)
📝 Job Requisition ID: JR111655

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations’ frontline agency fighting hunger globally, reaching over 100 million people in 120 countries each year. WFP is also a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, recognized for its life-saving efforts in emergencies and long-term support to conflict-affected communities.

WFP is not only committed to saving lives but also to building a pathway to peace, stability, and prosperity. With a focus on diversity, inclusion, and a strong values-driven culture, WFP is dedicated to creating an environment where its workforce thrives professionally and personally.

Learn more at wfp.org

🚀 Why Join the WFP Logistics Cluster Roster?

The Logistics Cluster, led by WFP under the IASC (Inter-Agency Standing Committee), plays a crucial role in coordinating and optimizing humanitarian logistics responses in emergencies worldwide.

Joining the Logistics Cluster Coordinator Roster means becoming part of a highly skilled pool of professionals ready to be deployed globally to support humanitarian emergencies. This is not an immediate job offer but a strategic entry point into impactful, on-the-ground leadership roles during humanitarian crises.

✅ Key Benefits:

• Join a global network of humanitarian logistics leaders

• Be deployed rapidly to global emergencies

• Lead coordination across UN agencies, NGOs, and governments

• Gain exposure to complex field operations

• Access professional development, training, and mobility opportunities

Join the Global Humanitarian Response: Logistics Cluster Coordinator Roster at WFP

🧭 Key Responsibilities

As a Logistics Cluster Coordinator, you’ll lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of humanitarian logistics operations in line with global best practices and IASC standards. Your role is central to ensuring that the humanitarian supply chain is efficient, collaborative, and responsive.

🌟 Leadership

• Design and implement logistics coordination mechanisms

• Lead Gaps and Needs Analyses (GNA)

• Mainstream global best practices into local cluster operations

🤝 Coordination

• Serve as the main focal point for logistics partners

• Facilitate communication between WFP, NGOs, UN agencies, and local authorities

• Represent the Logistics Cluster in inter-agency forums

📊 Information Management

• Collect and share vital logistics information

• Develop and maintain SOPs, maps, dashboards, and Concept of Operations (ConOps)

• Conduct performance monitoring and partner evaluations

⚙️ Operations & Resource Management

• Oversee implementation of common logistics services

• Identify storage and transport needs

• Draft budgets, mobilize resources, and support recruitment

📣 Advocacy

• Develop advocacy strategies for humanitarian logistics

• Represent logistics issues to humanitarian leadership and donors

🎓 Qualifications and Experience

🎓 Education:

• University degree in Supply Chain Management, International Relations, Crisis Management, or similar fields.

💼 Required Experience:

• 6+ years of progressive humanitarian logistics experience

• At least 2 years in a senior leadership or coordination role

🧠 Desired Experience:

• Familiarity with the IASC Cluster system

• Experience in humanitarian supply chains and inter-agency collaboration

• Previous roles within national or international coordination mechanisms

🧩 Key Skills & Attributes

• Strong leadership and strategic decision-making

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills

• Skilled in project management, monitoring, and evaluation

• Able to deploy on short notice, and thrive in challenging environments

• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools

🌍 Language Requirements

• Fluency in English (Level C) is mandatory

• Working knowledge of another UN language—especially French, Spanish, or Arabic—is highly desirable

🧳 Deployment & Working Conditions

• Willingness to deploy at short notice for a minimum of one month

• Ability to embed in ongoing operations or lead new responses

• Must be adaptable, proactive, and committed to humanitarian values

📄 Application Instructions

To apply, candidates must submit a CV and a detailed cover letter demonstrating how their profile matches the Terms of Reference (ToR) for this position.

Please apply directly through WFP’s career portal: https://www.wfp.org/careers

💬 Final Thoughts

The WFP Logistics Cluster Coordinator roster is an exceptional opportunity for experienced humanitarian logisticians to play a crucial leadership role in global emergency responses. If you have a passion for humanitarian service, thrive in high-pressure environments, and are ready to be deployed where your skills are needed most, this is your chance to make a global impact.

🔗 Apply by 30 April 2025 and be a part of a mission that matters.

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