Movement Control Officer

The Movement Control Officer is responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing the transportation of military/police contingent deployments, rotations, repatriations, and United Nations owned equipment to and from peacekeeping missions and other clients. The role involves assessing transportation requests, developing movement plans, negotiating with stakeholders, and ensuring efficient and cost-effective delivery of transportation services.

Responsibilities

• Receives client requests for transportation of military/police contingent deployment/rotation/repatriations and United Nations Owned equipment and assesses and identifies most feasible and cost-effective solutions.
• Analyzes, plans, implements and manages transportation of personnel and equipment of countries contributing contingents and United Nations owned equipment to and from the United Nations peacekeeping missions and other DOS clients.
• Finalizes the plan by liaison, negotiation and coordination with the clients, the relevant Permanent Mission and directly with the National Government, where necessary, prior to implementation.
• Resolves any conflicts between these organizations and ensures rotation/deployment plans comply with guidelines and operational needs.
• Attends DOS meetings on allocated missions and any mission planning meetings and briefs attendees on movement-related matters.
• Offers expert guidance on transportation matters to clients and management.
• Develops and implements movement plans anticipating client’s transportation requirements and prepares cost estimates for budget purposes.
• Prepares requisitions or Letters of Assist for required movement ensuring accuracy and obtains funds availability certification.
• Develops Statements of Work (SOWs) reflecting transportation requirements and coordinates requisition process with Procurement Division.
• Ensures bid documents conform with operational requirements and attends bid openings when necessary.
• Reviews bid responses and conducts operational and technical evaluation and analysis to ensure offers meet requirements.
• Negotiates with Permanent Missions and/or National Governments to resolve Letters of Assist details within operational parameters and prepares submissions for Committee on Contracts.
• Keeps DOS, Permanent Missions and Peacekeeping missions informed of progress throughout the process.
• Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provides insights through data visualization methods.
• Coordinates movements of personnel and freight in support of client entities, implements movement plans, tasks contracted transportation assets/services, monitors delivery and performance.
• Liaises with clients to ensure service standards are met and builds on lessons learned for improvement.
• Establishes collaborative partnerships with service providers ensuring contractual terms are met and services are delivered cost-effectively.
• Maintains digital dashboards and uses accurate data to influence decision making for service improvements and efficiency.
• Supports other Units and activities within IMS as required by the reporting officer.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent degree) in supply chain management, business or public administration, transportation management or other relevant area is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A certificate in Dangerous Goods Transportation in accordance with the rules and regulations of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and/or the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and/or International Maritime Organization (IMO) is desirable.
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in administration and management of transportation is required.
• Experience in at least two modes of transport (air, sea, road, and rail) including the planning, coordination and executing of large-scale personnel and cargo movement operations at the international level is required.
• Experience in the assessment of contract proposals for movements in two modes of transportation is required.
• At least two years of experience in managing and tasking commercial freight forwarding services is required.
• Experience in using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as SAP, including supply chain modules such as a Transportation Management (TM) module or equivalent is required.
• Experience in handling dangerous goods cargo, including packaging and documentation is desirable.
• Experience working in, or in support of, an international organization's field presence (including peacekeeping operations, political missions, or specialized agencies, funds, and programs) is desirable.
• Experience in sourcing, cleaning and preparing data, selecting and developing visualization/metrics in transportation, procurement, and/or supply chain management is desirable.
• English is required at UN Level II for reading, writing, listening and speaking.
• Either French or Spanish is desirable at UN Level I for reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Skills

• Supply Chain Management
• Transport Management
• Dangerous Goods Transportation
• International Maritime Regulations
• Travel and Transportation Administration
• Cargo Movement Operations
• Personnel movement operations
• Contract Proposal Assessment
• Commercial Freight Forwarding
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• SAP
• Transportation Management Module
• Packaging and Documentation
• Data Preparation
• Data Visualization
• Movement Planning
• Stakeholder Negotiation

Languages

English, French, Spanish