Turkey: Administration, Procurement and Logistics Manager

Organization: CARE
Country: Turkey
Closing date: 31 Dec 2014

Work Location:**Turkey – Gaziantep**

Expected Travel: up to 40%

Language Requirement: Turkish, English (and Arabic if possible)

Employee Duration: Active Full-Time

Type of Post: Accompanied – Spouse only

Funding: Approved

Application Deadline: 30 January 2015

DESCRIPTION

CARE Turkey is working to provide humanitarian aid related to the crisis in Syria, through direct implementation cross-border and within Turkey and also through partners.CARE is looking for an Administration, Procurement and Logistics Manager who will ensure that CARE and its partner have strong skills and operating system in all aspects of supply chain management; specifically logistics for emergency relief projects in complex environments, including procurement processes, administration, and donor and government regulations. It is expected that the Administration, Logistics and Procurement Manager will be involved in providing oversight to the CARE field operations and to some extent the partners operations to maximize both the CARE and partner’s efficiency, effectiveness and accountability in implementing of the projects. An important part of the responsibility will involve the capacity building of the CARE staff to ensure better service delivery to the emergency projects and staff being able to work independently with minimum supervision. In addition this position will play a key role in the scale-up of any refugee response operations within Turkey.It is expected that the administration, procurement and logistics manager will spend at least 25% of his/her time working directly with partners and 25% of their time travelling within Turkey to field sites.

Responsibilities and Tasks

• Ensure effective, transparent and compliant procurement processes at CARE and partner organizations
• Support logistics of relief items transport, storage and distribution
• Build procurement and logistics capacity of Partner organizations
• Oversee CARE Turkey internal operations related to administration, procurement and logistics

Qualifications (Know-How)

• Related education and training and experience with managing procurement and logistics processes in an emergency context
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in Humanitarian Aid operations
• Experience managing administration, procurement and logistics operations in complex emergency contexts
• Knowledge of procurement regulations of major donors, in particular OFDA, EU and DFID
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Strong networking capability
• Ability to organize and facilitate training sessions
• Ability to develop capacity building frameworks and work plans
• Experience running field operational assessment

How to apply:

Interested and qualified candidates are requested to send an Application Letter, Curriculum Vitae to: care_turkey_hr@co.care.org