Operations Support and Logistics (OSL) Officer at World Health Organization – Ukraine

The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking an Operations Support and Logistics (OSL) Officer for its Ukraine Country Office. This role is crucial for operationalizing WHO’s General Programme of Work (GPW14) and the European Programme of Work 2025-2029 (EPW2), focusing on strengthening health systems, improving access to essential services, advancing preparedness, and reducing health inequalities.

The OSL Officer will be instrumental in managing and implementing the country-level OSL strategy, annual work plans, business continuity arrangements, and emergency logistics plans, ensuring full alignment with WHO policies, standards, and priorities. Key responsibilities include coordinating supply-chain planning for health commodities, medical equipment, and operational supplies, encompassing demand forecasting, supply planning, requisition follow-up, and shipment tracking. The officer will also oversee importation, customs clearance, reception, transportation, warehousing, and distribution, resolving complex logistical constraints. Ensuring effective warehouse and inventory operations, including stock controls, traceability, cold-chain requirements, and timely disposal of unserviceable items, is also a core duty. Furthermore, the role involves coordinating national and subnational distribution plans, particularly for rapid deliveries to hard-to-reach and emergency-affected locations, and leading emergency logistics readiness and surge capacity through contingency stocks, framework arrangements, and field assessments. The OSL Officer will liaise with national authorities, UN agencies, and partners, representing WHO in relevant logistics coordination mechanisms.

['- Provide input to and manage the implementation of the country level OSL strategy, annual workplan, business-continuity arrangements and emergency logistics plans, ensuring alignment with WHO rules, policies, technical standards, programme priorities and available resources.', '- Coordinate supply-chain planning for health commodities, medical equipment and operational supplies, including demand forecasting, supply planning, prioritization, requisition follow-up, shipment tracking and coordination with procurement, finance and technical teams.', '- Oversee importation, customs clearance, reception, transportation, warehousing and distribution, resolving complex constraints and holding freight forwarders, transporters and other service providers accountable for contractual performance and service quality.', '- Ensure effective warehouse and inventory operations, including stock controls, traceability, storage conditions, cold-chain requirements, shelf-life monitoring, physical inventories, loss prevention, incident management and timely disposal of unserviceable or expired items.', '- Coordinate national and subnational distribution plans, including rapid deliveries to priority, hard-to-reach and emergency-affected locations, and support inter-agency convoys and common logistics arrangements where appropriate.', '- Lead emergency logistics readiness and surge capacity through risk-based contingency stocks, framework arrangements, scenario planning, field assessments and rapid identification of logistics capacity, needs, risks and gaps; recommend timely corrective and preparedness measures to management.', '- Liaise with national authorities, UN agencies, the Health and Logistics Clusters, partners and service providers; represent WHO in relevant logistics coordination mechanisms and negotiations with counterparts.']