DART – Logistics & Supply Chain Management Personnel

DART Logistics & Supply Chain Management Personnel provide the necessary support to ensure effective responses. They oversee and implement the purchasing and procurement, warehousing, and transportation of goods, assets, and deliverables for responses. They serve along each stage of the supply line and deploy to crisis situations in some of the toughest locations around the world to serve those in desperate need in the name of Jesus. DART Logistics & Supply Chain Management personnel are logistically minded operations experts who are willing and able to step aside from their normal career for a minimum of 3 weeks at a time to answer the call to respond.

Do you have what it takes to be DART Logistics & Supply Chain Management Personnel?

The Samaritan’s Purse DART program is committed to meeting the critical needs of victims of war, poverty, famine, disease, and natural disaster. We focus on meeting needs in the areas of clean water, food, shelter, and medical care. We stand ready to respond at a moment’s notice whenever and wherever disaster strikes. The DART specializes in meeting physical needs while sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ.

As deployments occur with little or no warning, DART members must have a flexible schedule and availability to deploy. DART members can be deployed to dangerous places, the living conditions can be challenging and the work days long and hard. However, Samaritan’s Purse believes in being the first on the ground in order to serve and help those who have suffered through a catastrophic event in the name of Jesus Christ.

Applicable Careers and Career Fields (not exhaustive)

• Supply Chain Management

• Warehouse Management

• Purchaser/Purchasing Manager

• Purchasing Agent/Buyer

• Logistician

• Logistics Engineering

• Distribution Manager

• Inventory Control Specialist

• Transportation Manager

• Load Planner/Master

• Business Owner

• Humanitarian Aid

• Disaster Relief

• Non-Profit Management

Examples of roles you might fill on a DART deployment as Logistics & Supply Chain Personnel

• Logistics Officer

• Logistics Manager

• Sending/Receiving Manager

• Procurement Manager

• Procurement Coordinator

• Flight Operations

• Warehouse Manager

• Fleet Manager

How serving on the DART roster works

DART members are contracted employees. Their contracts are activated when they are deployed to a response and are deactivated when they return home. Practically, this means that they have careers and life circumstances separate from DART, but when Samaritan’s Purse initiates a response, we call available DART members to respond and deploy. While a DART member is deployed, Samaritan’s Purse provides compensation and covers their response-related living and travel costs.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must maintain a personal relationship with and be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, as well as able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ; is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ

• 3-5 years proven work experience in applicable career field(s) is required

• Experience in applicable career field(s) within the last five years is required

• Bachelor’s degree from 4 year college or university or technical training in specific field preferred

• Available on short notice for immediate 3-4 week deployment, 2-3 times/year

• Able to serve within a very fast-paced environment, 7 days/week for extended hours while on deployment

• Able to work as a member of a team, particularly cross-culturally

• Demonstrated travel, volunteer or work experience in developing countries

• Willingness to work in unstable, insecure areas

• Teaching experience desirable, but not required

Job Location: International
Type (Full-Time/Part-Time/Associate): Intermittent (On-Call)
Restrictions (Accompanied/Non-Accompanied): Non-Accompanied
Language Requirement: Fluency in Spanish and/or French, preferred

Samaritan’s Purse Mission Statement:

Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God’s love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.