Team Management and leadership:
• Promote a supportive, solution-oriented, respectful, and inclusive management culture within the Ops team and in Country Program in general.
• Implement personnel policies including regular one-on-one’s, ongoing coaching, performance evaluation, staff development & career pathways, and disciplinary measures.
• Ensure new OPS member receive well-structured orientation and onboarding.
• Ensure regular & reliable team meetings and maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable and empower staff to successfully perform in their positions.
• Ensure duty of care activities are regularly conducted within the team to promote staff well-being and keep morale high.
• Be mobile within the Country Program, visiting regularly field offices.
• Ensure active and constructive collaboration with other departments.
• Ensure new staff are briefed on Ops systems and processes.
• Maintain proactive internal communication on the progress and obstacles faced by operations.
Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: DDFM
Position directly supervises: Supply Chain Coordinator, Admin Manager, IT Manager, and Senior Data Processing Officer.
Other Internal and/or external contacts:
Internal: Regular relationships with HQ, regional and country Supply Chain coordinator and staff at all levels, Deputy Director of Field management, Supply chain, Country Director, DDF, Program department leads.
External: May serve as IRC Supply Chain representative in outside meetings, other non-governmental organizations, inter-agency groups and foundations, Logistics cluster.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business administration/logistics, 5 years or more of progressive Supply Chain professional experience or equivalent education and experience.
• Demonstrated success of 4 -5 years experience in in humanitarian or emergency response context with progressive responsibility.
• Hands-on field experience in crisis or post-crisis settings in high valuable, including experience in logistics, procurement, finance, and human resource within a humanitarian context.
• Experience managing teams and coordinating projects or operations, often in challenging or unstable environments.
• Proficiency in planning, executing, and evaluating projects, often under tight deadlines and within budget constraints.
• Strong ability in organizing resources, such as personnel, supplies, and equipment, often in locations with limited infrastructure.
• Effective written and verbal communication, capable of negotiating and working with diverse stakeholders including local communities, governments, and international donors.
• Comfortable working in volatile situations and capable of adjusting strategies as situations change.
• Ability to analyze complex data and make informed decisions quickly.
• Understanding of and sensitivity to diverse cultural contexts and practices.
• Able to work effectively in a highly matrixed structure.
• Excellent training and coaching ability.
• Fluency in English required, proficiency in Ukrainian or Russian is advantageous.
• Ability to travel to remote field offices.
Work Environment
There is active conflict in parts of the country and a possibility for further expansion of the conflict and violence into other areas. Staff must comply with all IRC security policies and procedures applicable to international staff. Security will be thoroughly discussed during the interview process.
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