Established in 1977, GOAL is an international humanitarian and development agency, committed to working with communities to achieve sustainable and innovative early response in crises, and lasting solutions to poverty and vulnerability. GOAL has worked in over 60 countries and has responded to almost every major humanitarian disaster. We are currently operational in 18 countries.

GOAL began operations in Syria in 2013 responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL's areas of operations include but not limited to Aleppo, Idleb and Lattakia Governorates, and is expanding to new governorates in Syria. Programmes focus on Food and Nutrition Security, WASH, Shelter, Livelihoods/ERMS and Emergency Response with an emphasis on cash and voucher modalities. GOAL Syria implements its programmes directly, with over 500 staff based in Syria, and through Syrian NGO partners. GOAL's programme works at the household and community levels to improve community resilience and household coping strategies.

**Job purpose:**

Provide overall leadership and strategic oversight for logistics functions across the Syria programme, ensuring systems, processes, and resources are fit for purpose, compliant, and aligned with programme needs and GOAL policies.

As logistic Coordinator is the head of department, she/he needs to ensure logistics operations are implemented in line with GOAL manuals, donor requirements, legal obligations, and industry best practice, with appropriate controls, monitoring, and risk mitigation measures in place.

**Duties, objectives and competencies:**

**Stores, Stock & Asset Management:** Ensure effective inventory control, asset tracking, and stock accuracy through compliant storage, documentation, audit requirement and regular reconciliation processes in accordance with GOAL Logistics Manual while embedding environmental sustainability and waste reduction principles.

**Premises Management:** Ensure safe, secure, and cost-effective premises management, overseeing maintenance, compliance, and timely resolution of operational and safety issues aligned with organizational standards.

**Fleet Management:** Provide strategic oversight of fleet operations, ensuring optimal fleet sizing, compliance, safety, and maximised vehicle utilisation and availability in a cost-effective manner aligned with programme needs.

**Reporting, Systems & Data Quality:** Strengthened logistics reporting systems through accurate data management, trend analysis, and timely reporting to support decision-making, compliance, and grant closure requirements.

**Budget Management & Forecasting**: Managed logistics budgets and forecasts, monitoring expenditure, identifying risks and implementing corrective actions to ensure efficient resource utilisation.

**Other Duties (Leadership & Coordination)**: Supervise logistics staff, strengthened team capacity, improve system and procedures, and support System director and SMT in enhancing operational efficiency and compliance, Moreover, enhance Coordination with external implementers and stakeholders improving wider coordination. Provide technical support to partner organisations as needed, including support to partner assessments and capacity building. Oversee import and export processes, ensuring required documentation, permits, approvals, and compliance requirements are in place and coordinated in a timely manner.

**Requirements (essential):**

- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject (such as Engineering, Public relation, Business administration, international trade, Supply chain, Logistics etc)
- At least 5 years previous work experience in logistics,
- At least 4 years professional experience in INGOs or NGOs.
- At least 3 years previous experience in team management
- Proven ability to develop staff and provide training on systems and procedures.
- Ability to understand and implement organisational and donor policies.
- Ability to manage and prioritise a varied workload in a in a rapidly changing work environment.
- Willingness and ability to undertake some travel for work purposes, as required.
- A flexible approach to work and willingness to take on extra duties, work additional hours or on weekends as required.
- Ability to work under pressure to pursue multiple tasks simultaneously to successful conclusions.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Trustworthy and honest.
- Fluency in English

**Requirements (desired):**

- At least two-year previous work experience as head of department
- Diplomacy and negotiation skills.
- Data Analysis skills, including knowledge of Power BI and advanced Microsoft Excel

**General terms and conditions**

**Safeguarding**

Children and vulnerable adults a must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

**Accountability within GOAL**

Alongside our safeguarding policy, GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has a set of integrity policies. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

- Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, Code of Conduct, health and safety, data protection and confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behavior protocols.
- Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
- Report any concerns about inappropriate behavior of a GOAL staff or partner.

*This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.*

**Thank you.**