Overview
Provide strategic and technical support in planning, coordinating, reviewing, and strengthening election logistics systems and operational preparedness for the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE).
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in post-election lessons learned and operational review of the 2026 General Elections.
- Document key logistical successes, bottlenecks, and risks.
- Prepare recommendations for strengthening future logistics operations.
- Support preparation of post-election lessons learned reports.
- Facilitate internal debriefing sessions across departments.
- Lead the planning and coordination of election logistics operations for remaining and re-elections.
- Develop comprehensive logistics plans and implementation schedules.
- Assess readiness gaps and logistical requirements.
- Coordinate logistics requirements across all departments and regional offices.
- Manage development and finalization of election materials for the remaining and re-elections.
- Ensure timely availability and distribution of election materials and equipment.
- Support the planning and management of procurement activities related to electoral materials and equipment.
- Review and strengthen warehouse management procedures and systems.
- Support post-election retrieval and reconciliation of election materials.
- Strengthen institutional SOPs and logistical workflows.
- Support archiving and knowledge management systems.
- Support for the development of transportation and distribution plans for election materials and equipment.
- Identify efficiency gains and cost-saving opportunities.
- Review and improve last-mile delivery mechanisms.
- Establish contingency arrangements for emergency logistics requirements.
- Support institutional capacity development of NEBE operational staff.
- Participate in designing training plans and operational manuals.
- Strengthen logistical planning capacities.
- Deliver targeted operational training.
- Strengthen logistics information management systems.
- Improve reporting, tracking, and monitoring mechanisms.
- Develop logistics dashboards and performance monitoring tools.
- Support evidence-based planning and decision-making.
- Coordinate with government institutions, suppliers, service providers, and development partners on logistics matters.
- Facilitate regular logistics coordination meetings and progress reviews.
- Support partnership development and resource mobilization.
- Contribute to NEBE’s medium-term election logistics strategy and implementation framework.
- Support long-term logistics planning for future electoral events.
- Support logistics contingency and scenario planning for re-elections.
- Strengthen logistics risk management frameworks.
Required Experience
Minimum 5 years (with master’s degree) or 7 years (with bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible professional experience in project or logistics management, especially in election management, is required. Proven experience in: Election logistics, warehouse management and transportation coordination, including aviation logistics; Experience managing large-scale logistics operations; Stakeholder coordination in complex political environments.
Qualifications
Advanced degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Project Management, Operations, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Social Science or Related Field is required or; A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above fields in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
