Rations Operations / Quality Assurance Assistant

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Mission and objectives

Concerned with the security, humanitarian, human rights and political crisis in the Central African Republic and its regional implications, the Security Council authorized in April 2014 the deployment of a multidimensional United Nations peacekeeping operation, MINUSCA, with the protection of civilians as its utmost priority. Its other initial tasks included support for the transition process; facilitating humanitarian assistance; promotion and protection of human rights; support for justice and the rule of law; and disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and repatriation processes. The newly established mission subsumed the UN Integrated Peace building Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA). MINUSCA current uniformed personnel levels stand at 11,650 military personnel and 2,080 police personnel, and are tasked with the strategic objective of creating the political, security and institutional conditions conducive to sustainably reducing the presence of — and threat posed by — armed groups. See http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/minusca/.

Context

Concerned with the security, humanitarian, human rights and political crisis in the Central African Republic and its regional implications, the Security Council authorized on 10 April 2014 deployment of a multidimensional United Nations peacekeeping operation – MINUSCA, with the protection of civilians as its utmost priority. Its other initial tasks included support for the transition process; facilitating humanitarian assistance; promotion and protection of human rights; support for justice and the rule of law; and disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and repatriation processes. The newly established mission subsumed the UN Integrated Peace building Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA) on the date of the establishment and has been set to take over authority in military and police matters from the African Union-led peacekeeping operation – MISCA – on 15 September 2014. (http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/minusca/).

Task description

Under the direct supervision of Rations Officer the UN Volunteer Rations Operations Assistant will undertake the following tasks: • Ensure all requisitions are received in a timely manner from contingents. • Verify and validate the food requisitions received from contingents for accuracy. • Assist in verification of weekly inventory reports and ensure the contractor warehouse has required stocks available. • Ensure that troop strength reports are received in a timely manner from contingent locations and are summarized after cross verification with Memorandum of Understanding strength details. • Ensure the Composite Ration Packs (CRPs) consumed are deducted from the fresh ration entitlements of respective contingents. • Assist in preparing the final individual requisitions in a timely manner. • Cross verify the initial and final orders to ensure that there are no variations in items ordered by the troops. • Give recommendations on substitution request for the missing items. • Ensure proper filing of the troop strength reports, food requisition, troop movements and CRP and Bottled Water (BW) data. • To continuously monitor the Contractor’s warehousing activities ensuring that acceptable performance levels are maintained. • Monitoring implementation of the approved Quality Control (QC) plan and reviewing quality plans against the contractual requirements and recommending improvements. • Review the Contractor’s inspection procedures and practices. • Validate the F2 documents for customs clearance. • Verify that the food items imported by the contractor comply with applicable food safety codes and UN standards and coordinate with the Contractor for quality approvals when required. • Receive contingent receipt data in Electronic Rations Management Systems (eRMS) and generate redelivery requests, if required • Receive, review and analyze customer complaints and provide corrective actions to clients; • Participate in contingent location inspections. • Maintain strong working relations with Contingent Logistics Officers, Mission Support Centre, COE, and the Staff Officer Rations. • Provide training on rations matters to national staff and Contingent Logistics Officers. • Performs other related duties as required by the supervisor.