Food Distribution Supervisor- Gambella

• Location Type : Office
• Deadline : April 23rd, 2026
• Career Level : Junior Level(1-3 years)
• Employment Type : Contract
• Number of people required : 1

About the Job

Job Purpose: World Vision International (WVI) Ethiopia implements a large-scale food assistance programme in the Gambella Region, including Nguenyyiel and Terkidi refugee camps, to support South Sudanese refugees. The programme is delivered in partnership with key humanitarian actors such as the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS).
The Food Distribution Supervisor expected to plays a vital role in the effective planning, coordination, and monitoring of food assistance activities, ensuring distributions comply with WVI and WFP operational standards. Working closely with the camp-level commodity management team, the supervisor promotes proper commodity handling, storage, and distribution practices, strengthens warehouse and stock management systems, and ensures food assistance reaches beneficiaries in a timely, transparent, and accountable manner. The role also requires maintaining strong coordination and smooth working relationships with key partners, like RRS, WFP, UNHCR, and Refugee Central Committee (RCC), to support effective planning and implementation of program activities within the camp.

Major Responsibility

• Facilitate the distribution and implementation of all WFP activities of woreda by closely working with program team, commodity staff and stakeholders at woreda level.
• Ensure the best management of food commodities as per the minimum commodity management standards by communicating and acting with commodity team at head office and woreda level.
• Lead the planning and implementation of food distribution to project participants in a timely manner and to the best standard required by closely working with the commodity team at head office, regional and woreda level
• Supervise and lead the commodity team at woreda level to insure best commodity management practice in warehousing and distribution to project participants on timely manner.
• Provide written reports, data and etc. to WFP team and commodity staff at head office and regional level constantly in the course of WFP response program implementation. 
• Maintain a strong and smooth relationship with woreda and Kebele /Center level major stakeholders in planning and implementing the program
• Maintain and demonstrate a decent and respectful manner in serving the target community and in interacting with the society in general.

About You

Required Professional Experience

• Experience: Minimum of 2 years of experience in relief and/or any emergency response program interventions implementation 

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• BA/BSc Degree in Agric. Econ, Disaster Management, Rural Development, and Economics &Dev’s. Studies

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience in integrated project design, implementation and monitoring.
• Familiarity with major donor programs- WFP and USAID.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skill including influencing and negotiation.
• Good level of computer literacy (word, excel, power point and outlook).

Requirement Skill

• Communication