Supply Chain Officer at Jhpiego, April 2024

Overview:

Supply Chain Officer needed to oversee intake and distribution of drugs for an upcoming UNITAID project to expand access to preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women in Nigeria. This project aims to scale up an innovative, community-based approach to expand coverage of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), with quality assured sulfadoxine-pyrimithimine (SP), for pregnant women. The Supply Chain Officer will develop and implement strategies to ensure appropriate levels of IPTp drugs and supplies at the facilities.

This position is contingent upon award from UNITAID. Nigerian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities:

Oversee the intake and distribution of drug, quality assured SP, from national to regional to district and community level.
Work with procurement agent as principal local counterpart.
Collaborate with the Program Officer to resolve supply-chain bottlenecks.
In coordination with the Program Manager, work with Malaria Medicines Venture, as needed to ensure effective registration of quality assured SP for IPTp in DRC.
Coordinate with vendors to procure equipment and training materials for activities.
Provide technical assistance to oversee the development of drug supply management system, including the recording and reporting of CHWs, CHW supervisors, supply managers and pharmacists
Adopt integrated approaches to increase effective recording, reporting, logistics, supplies management, storage and waste management at all levels.
Coordinate with all relevant officers to ensure that the procurement process for IPTp drugs and supplies operates smoothly, and that all parties receive the necessary information in a timely manner
Support refinement and management of the in-country procurement process conducted for IPTp and other commodities, and supervise the operation of the appointed storage and distribution agent
Build local capacity to monitor the medicine stock and usage levels, and prepare regular reports on the stock status and forecast usage scenarios
Build local capacity to prepare and submit medicine rationing reports if stock position is forecast to be insufficient for projected usage
Provide inputs relating to commodity management into the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) development process
Participate in the planning and delivery of commodity management training programs targeted to pharmaceutical/commodity management staff
Support pharmaceutical and commodity management staff at target service delivery facilities in the application of pharmaceutical SOPs to ensure the effective ordering, storage, distribution, and use of pharmaceuticals and commodities in support of the supplies delivery program
Collaborate with staff at the district and health center level to ensure that a management information system is established according to adopted SOPs and that the system of reporting to the district and national level functions properly
Coordinate as appropriate to ensure that both the district health system and the central department of pharmacy are fully engaged in a commodity management supervision/feedback system
Analyze the existing supply chain data and identify, design and implement interventions to improve supply chain processes and procedures including the following areas:
- Transportation and distribution
- Warehouse management
- Inventory management
- Quantification
- Logistics management information systems
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Supply chain implications of product selection decisions
- Financing
- Resource mobilization and donor coordination
Identify and analyze the constraints to improve product availability in the policy, regulatory and health systems environment
Identify opportunities for supply chain innovation. including the introduction of private sector best practices
Ensure compliance with UNITAID, Jhpiego and JHU operational policies and regulations.

Required Qualifications:

Advanced Degree in international public health, business administration or related field or equivalent experience
Experience in coordinating international donor financed projects
Familiarity with international donor policies and administrative procedures, UNITAID preferred
5+ years’ of experience in drug supply management for international health projects
Ability to interact skillfully and diplomatically with numerous counterparts such as networks of senior level international health professionals, donors, universities and other partners
Familiarity with Democratic Republic of Congo health management information system
Experience and understanding of malaria prevention, care and treatment
Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple projects/tasks, short deadlines, competing deadlines and intense pressure to perform
Appreciation for socio-cultural differences in countries, preferably having lived and worked in one or more low resource settings
Awareness of, sensitivity to, and experience in working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural staff and groups
Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations worldwide
Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams
Proficiency in word processing and Microsoft Office
Fluent in written and spoken English preferred
Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills
Ability to travel nationally

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation, holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education assistance plan and more.

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

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Jhpiego

Our History

Responding to the Changing Needs of Women and Families Worldwide

Since its founding in 1974, Jhpiego has been innovating to save the lives of women and families worldwide. From the first day, Jhpiego has been asking the question: How can we make lifesaving services available and accessible to the people who need them—all over the world?

Dr. Theodore M. King, an early innovator and champion for women’s health, was the moving force behind the founding of Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1970s, King recognized the need to make physicians, nurses and administrators from developing countries aware of reproductive health breakthroughs, such as laparoscopy (a procedure used to inspect internal reproductive organs for infertility or to provide contraception by closing off the fallopian tubes) and modern contraceptives. Originally known as the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics, the organization was funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Under King’s leadership, as a founder, trustee and later president of Jhpiego for 14 years, the organization conducted a steady stream of programs throughout the developing world.

How Did We Get from There to Here?

Early on, Jhpiego established itself as a leader in reproductive health training. Beginning in 1974, Jhpiego held training sessions on family planning/reproductive health for doctors and nurses in the USA In 1979, Jhpiego started its first in-country training programs in Tunisia, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand and the Philippines. From 1987 through 2004, Jhpiego conducted three global Training in Reproductive Health Projects, funded by USAID. Beginning in 1993, Jhpiego published learning materials on long-acting family planning methods.

Over the years—to respond more effectively to the needs of individual countries—Jhpiego became increasingly field-based and established its first field office in Kenya in 1993. Today, Jhpiego has field offices in more than 30 countries worldwide. Similarly, Jhpiego’s programming areas have expanded to meet changing needs in the field. In addition to family planning and reproductive health, Jhpiego now has expertise in maternal and child health, infection prevention and control, HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases.

Jhpiego’s work has also expanded to address reproductive health policy and guidelines and to support health systems strengthening. For example, in 1996 in Brazil, Jhpiego launched a performance and quality improvement approach, now known as Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R), which has since been implemented in 30 countries. SBM-R empowers health workers and facilities to improve the performance and quality of their services by providing them with the tools and methods they need to make decisions, solve problems and innovate at the local level.

Innovations in Training Methods and Technologies

In 1986, Jhpiego pioneered a competency-based training (CBT) approach that emphasizes learning by doing. CBT focuses on how the participant performs and promotes the trainer’s ability to encourage learning. Jhpiego also introduced the use of anatomic models for “humanistic training.” To minimize risk to clients, learners first practice on models until they achieve competency. In 1995, a clinical training skills manual—the cornerstone of Jhpiego’s training approach—was published. Using a systematic “training of trainers” approach, Jhpiego has created a global network of qualified physician, nurse and midwife trainers.

As early as 1984, Jhpiego collaborated with the University of the West Indies to deliver reproductive health courses, via satellite, to six islands in the Caribbean. In 1987, Jhpiego sponsored a global meeting on reproductive health education and technology with the World Health Organization (WHO) and introduced computer-assisted instruction to simulate clinical situations in several of its US-based courses. In 1995, ReproLine, an online source for reproductive health information, was launched. Today, Jhpiego continues to explore new learning technologies: mobile phones in Afghanistan, a computer-based learning management system in Ethiopia, computer-based training in Ghana, a distance learning program in Zambia.

Practical Solutions for Low-Resource Settings

Since the 1992 publication of its international reference standard Infection Prevention for Family Planning Service Programs, Jhpiego has been at the forefront in promoting evidence-based practices that can protect health care professionals, staff and clients from potentially life-threatening infections. To this end, Jhpiego has tested and introduced practical, low-cost infection prevention procedures that can be implemented effectively in settings with limited resources.

In developing countries, cervical cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. In 1995, Jhpiego began research with the University of Zimbabwe to find a low-cost alternative to the Pap test that could make cervical cancer prevention a reality in low-resource settings. Based on the results of this research, Jhpiego helped form the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention in 1999 and received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its cervical cancer program. Since that time, Jhpiego has developed and piloted the single visit approach in which women are screened and treated during the same visit.

In 1995, Jhpiego began addressing HIV/AIDS and its integration with family planning services. Six years later, Jhpiego began work in HIV voluntary counseling and testing with a USAID-funded project in Jamaica. In 2002, Jhpiego received its first funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for work in HIV/AIDS and, the following year, developed a global learning package on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV—with CDC, WHO and university partners—to enable global scale-up. Also in 2003, Jhpiego began work on male circumcision for HIV prevention in Zambia. In 2008, Jhpiego developed a global learning package on male circumcision for HIV prevention with WHO and UNAIDS.

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Overview:

This position is contingent upon award from UNITAID. Nigerian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities:

Oversee the intake and distribution of drug, quality assured SP, from national to regional to district and community level.
Work with procurement agent as principal local counterpart.
Collaborate with the Program Officer to resolve supply-chain bottlenecks.
In coordination with the Program Manager, work with Malaria Medicines Venture, as needed to ensure effective registration of quality assured SP for IPTp in DRC.
Coordinate with vendors to procure equipment and training materials for activities.
Provide technical assistance to oversee the development of drug supply management system, including the recording and reporting of CHWs, CHW supervisors, supply managers and pharmacists
Adopt integrated approaches to increase effective recording, reporting, logistics, supplies management, storage and waste management at all levels.
Coordinate with all relevant officers to ensure that the procurement process for IPTp drugs and supplies operates smoothly, and that all parties receive the necessary information in a timely manner
Support refinement and management of the in-country procurement process conducted for IPTp and other commodities, and supervise the operation of the appointed storage and distribution agent
Build local capacity to monitor the medicine stock and usage levels, and prepare regular reports on the stock status and forecast usage scenarios
Build local capacity to prepare and submit medicine rationing reports if stock position is forecast to be insufficient for projected usage
Provide inputs relating to commodity management into the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) development process
Participate in the planning and delivery of commodity management training programs targeted to pharmaceutical/commodity management staff
Support pharmaceutical and commodity management staff at target service delivery facilities in the application of pharmaceutical SOPs to ensure the effective ordering, storage, distribution, and use of pharmaceuticals and commodities in support of the supplies delivery program
Collaborate with staff at the district and health center level to ensure that a management information system is established according to adopted SOPs and that the system of reporting to the district and national level functions properly
Coordinate as appropriate to ensure that both the district health system and the central department of pharmacy are fully engaged in a commodity management supervision/feedback system
Analyze the existing supply chain data and identify, design and implement interventions to improve supply chain processes and procedures including the following areas:
- Transportation and distribution
- Warehouse management
- Inventory management
- Quantification
- Logistics management information systems
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Supply chain implications of product selection decisions
- Financing
- Resource mobilization and donor coordination
Identify and analyze the constraints to improve product availability in the policy, regulatory and health systems environment
Identify opportunities for supply chain innovation. including the introduction of private sector best practices
Ensure compliance with UNITAID, Jhpiego and JHU operational policies and regulations.

Required Qualifications:

Advanced Degree in international public health, business administration or related field or equivalent experience
Experience in coordinating international donor financed projects
Familiarity with international donor policies and administrative procedures, UNITAID preferred
5+ years’ of experience in drug supply management for international health projects
Ability to interact skillfully and diplomatically with numerous counterparts such as networks of senior level international health professionals, donors, universities and other partners
Familiarity with Democratic Republic of Congo health management information system
Experience and understanding of malaria prevention, care and treatment
Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple projects/tasks, short deadlines, competing deadlines and intense pressure to perform
Appreciation for socio-cultural differences in countries, preferably having lived and worked in one or more low resource settings
Awareness of, sensitivity to, and experience in working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural staff and groups
Ability to develop productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations worldwide
Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams
Proficiency in word processing and Microsoft Office
Fluent in written and spoken English preferred
Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills
Ability to travel nationally

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