Logistics Manager - Tanzania

About Imagine Worldwide

All children have immense potential, but hundreds of millions don’t have access to the learning they need. Imagine Worldwide’s mission is to empower millions of children across Sub-Saharan Africa with the literacy and numeracy skills they need to reach their full potential. We provide an innovative education technology solution and implementation model to the global literacy/numeracy learning crisis using the onebillion application and various toolkits and systems to support implementation. Nine Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) across multiple countries and settings have shown dramatic learning gains, increased school attendance, and gender parity, all for less than $7 per child per year.

Imagine Worldwide Tanzania has partnered with the Ministries of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) and Presidents’ Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PoRALG) of the Government of Tanzania, Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) of Zanzibar and other partners to scale up nationally an innovative Edtech program (MsingiTek) that is focused on improving literacy and numeracy skills among learners in standards 1-3 in all public primary schools in Tanzania and Zanzibar. To support this ambitious program, Imagine Worldwide Tanzania seeks to engage a Director of Programs to join a team to support MoEST, PoRALG, MoEVT and other implementation partners in the successful roll out of the program.

About the Role

The Logistics Manager will play an instrumental role in carrying out Imagine’s mission to scale tablet-based learning solutions that enable children in Tanzania to become literate and numerate. The successful candidate will play a key role in handling import clearance, inventory management, and distribution of supplies and materials for our programs.

They will be tasked with coordinating customs clearance, analyzing distribution and warehousing budgets, managing orders, planning routes, processing shipments and ensuring adherence to health and safety requirements. The candidate will join a highly committed and collaborative team that is working together to empower every child, to achieve their full potential. The position offers an international, flexible, learning environment to enhance individual career development and growth.

Key Responsibilities

The Logistics Manager will work closely with Imagine’s Director of Technical Services and local implementing partners to fulfil 2 areas of responsibility. Firstly they will take the lead in defining logistics routes to replenish stock in schools and implementation partners and secondly, they will lead inventory controls across all sites in Tanzania. This responsibility includes managing shipments and imports, logistics, and inventory management. The Manager will work with technical support partners to ensure timely deliveries of locally procured assets and scheduling of installations. The Logistics Manager’s responsibilities will include - but will not be limited to the  following:

Logistics

• Manage import requirements, and application of tax waivers to streamline customs clearance process.
• Coordinate with the government supply unit to arrange vehicles to distribute supplies and materials to schools. 
• Establish forward and reverse logistics to replenish stock with implementation service partners and return broken products from schools. Provide a monthly report of distribution costs. 
• Manage fleet, distribution costs and budgets. 
• Coordinate with technical service partners and vendors to ensure that all equipment is delivered on time and installations are timely. 
• Engage regularly with the Program team and local implementing partners for project planning and inventory requirements
• Secure insurance where relevant, warehouse, products in transit and manage relationships with insurance providers.
• Manage project risks with creative problem-solving and escalate as required

Inventory Management

• Manage inventory management systems to ensure visibility of equipment at school sites and maximize uptime and performance 
• Manage warehousing and storage of equipment.
• Implement 6s warehouse management protocols and other best practices in inventory management. 
• Manage inventory at the warehouse, with service partners and in schools and provide a monthly report on stock losses. 
• Develop tools to track inventory and logistics KPIs. 

Health & Safety and Responsibilities

• Implement health and safety policies for Imagine in Sierra Leone with clear physical safety precautions for electrical equipment, physical security of high-value items 
• Assess and mitigate risks of theft or loss of high-value items

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field:  Supply Chain and Logistics
• A minimum of 5 years experience in supply chain management 
• Experience using inventory management systems SAP, ERP or similar systems. 
• Good knowledge of computer hardware and software

Role-Specific Skills Required

Exceptional project management skills and proven experience that includes: 

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English 
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills 
• Ability to work effectively in multicultural environments and teams 
• Strong organization skills and superior attention to detail 
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines 
• Ability to proactively manage and resolve conflicts
• Experience in managing multi-site and multi-partner projects
• Ability to prioritize and display a high level of adaptability/flexibility while handling job responsibility

Location

The Logistics Manager must be based in Dar es Salam, Tanzania with travel to field sites as required. The Logistics Manager will frequently collaborate and coordinate with local staff from our Implementation Partner organizations and Imagine HQ.  

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis

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Imagine Worldwide is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.