General Summary
General summary:
The Pharmacy Logistics Coordinator will lead the design, coordination, implementation, and monitoring of strategies to ensure constant availability of medicines and supplies within IDI-supported regions in liaison with District structures, National logistics warehouses, Ministry of Health, and development partners.
Key Responsibilities
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- Provide strategic level planning, program design and implementation management support for the Logistics coordination portfolio of the project
- Collaboratively work with National Warehouses and the districts to ensure uninterrupted availability of key supplies including ARVs, antiTBs, Family Planning commodities and Opportunistic infection medicines at health facilities.
- Guide mentorship and training efforts to build capacity of district and facility teams to manage health logistics related to TB and HIV/AIDS care.
- Establish systems that support district and facility teams to routinely quantify and order for TB and HIV care commodities through national ware houses in a timely manner.
- Support implementation of standard stock monitoring and management practices including use of electronic inventory systems in order to minimize wastage and avert stock outs.
- Design and functionalize facility and community surveillance systems to detect and notify adverse drug reactions to drug regulatory authorities in a timely manner.
- Support design and implementation of appropriate differentiated ART service delivery models in line with national policies and the PEPFAR community framework.
- Lead coordination support for implementation of the Supervision Performance Assessment and Recognition Strategy (SPARS) within all IDI-supported regions
- Support development of SOPs to guide facility teams to appropriately handle HIV and TB commodities using standard inventory management tools.
- Guide District and facility teams to identify, implement and document continuous quality improvement activities along the logistics supply chain.
- Support health facilities to compile and submit accurate HMIS and programmatic reports according to project, donor and Ministry of Health timelines.
- Any other duties as may reasonably be assigned from time to time.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience:
- A Bachelors degree in Pharmacy
- A post graduate diploma in project planning and management
- Additional training in HIV/AIDS logistics and supply chain management
- Training in Public Health is an added advantage
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Experience and up-to-date knowledge of the national medical logistics systems
- Good communication, organization and management skills.
- Understands client confidentiality and exhibits high level of ethical conduct.
- Has basic computer literacy including word processing, excel, internet and power point.