Supply Chain Readiness Advisor - Emergency Response

CRS; Baltimore (MD); Sur place; USD 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

CRS seeks a Supply Chain Management Technical Advisor I to support readiness and rapid emergency response within the RAPID project. You will assist the Technical Advisor II, helping EMPOWER partners across five South American countries strengthen supply chains for in-kind, CVA, and multi-modality operations.

Responsibilities include planning, market analysis, contracting readiness, CVA protocols, warehouse and inventory assessments, and knowledge sharing to ensure compliant, efficient and safe

Responsabilités

• Support Technical Advisor II in implementing the multi-modality supply chain readiness process across the five target countries, working closely with partners and relevant CRS functions.
• Assist with planning, tracking, and documentation for the five priority focus areas: updated specifications, strategic sourcing, prepositioned stocks, open contracts, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain readiness tools, action plans, trackers, databases, and continuous improvement plans, and monitor progress against agreed actions.
• Conduct market, supplier, logistics, and service provider assessments, including data collection, market pricing, costing exercises, and verification of key assumptions.
• Support the review and development of relief item specifications, kit contents, packing requirements, and other supply chain readiness standards to ensure suitability for local contexts and anticipated hazard scenarios.
• Support the mapping, due diligence, prequalification, contracting readiness, and ongoing management of suppliers and service providers, including maintaining vendor databases, framework agreements, and supporting documentation.
• Support the assessment, contracting readiness, and activation protocols of financial and mobile service providers for cash and voucher assistance (CVA), including compliance, liquidity, data protection, reconciliation, complaints handling, and failed-payment procedures.
• Support assessments of partner supply chain systems, including procurement, contracting, warehousing, inventory management, transport, distribution, quality assurance, and readiness for safe and accountable emergency operations.
• Support analysis of warehouse requirements, inventory systems, storage practices, distribution readiness, transport options, and supply chain constraints, and assist partners in addressing identified gaps.
• Support partner coaching sessions, simulations, readiness tests, and technical working sessions, including preparation of materials, meeting coordination, documentation, follow-up actions, and consolidation of final readiness packages and supporting tools.

Description du poste

CRS seeks a Supply Chain Management Technical Advisor I to support readiness and rapid emergency response within the RAPID project. You will assist the Technical Advisor II, helping EMPOWER partners across five South American countries strengthen supply chains for in-kind, CVA, and multi-modality operations.

Responsibilities include planning, market analysis, contracting readiness, CVA protocols, warehouse and inventory assessments, and knowledge sharing to ensure compliant, efficient and safe