Pharmacy Officer at Save The Children

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

General

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practices with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Ensures that Save the Children supply chain procedures and policies are implemented and adhered to.
• Management of Medical Storage and Supply Chain
• Manage the medical warehouse, optimizing medicine storage conditions and organization to ensure the safety and effectiveness of drugs and medical supplies.
• Responsible for ordering medical products and supplies from SCI-supported facilities in collaboration with the health and nutrition team.
• Ensure good storage practices of medical products across the SCI-supported health facilities.
• Coordinate with the health and nutrition team to ensure the rational use of medical products at SCI-supported health facilities.
• Ensures daily update of bin cards and stock cards; supplies are released with approved stock release formats and proper documentation.
• Ensures high-quality standards of health commodity management are met including Good Distribution Practices – which will include warehousing, cold chain management, stock rotation and control, pipeline management, consumption monitoring and ordering.
• Responsible for field-based consumption reporting is completed in a timely manner and advised on rational use of medicines based on this.
• Ensure accurate reporting of drug movement stocks and consumption.
• Responsible for safe disposal of expired drugs and medical supplies, working with the Regulatory Authority where applicable.
• Ensuring a safe and accurate dispensing process and patients are counselled on how to take prescribed treatment providing capacity building where required.
• Monitors medication safety across the primary health care teams and Stabilization centre.
• Oversees medication use in the field.
• Responsible for pharmacovigilance 
• Register the Pharmacy Warehouse with PCN using his/her License.
• Carry out any other tasks as required in line with the technical area.
• Specific management of the cold chain
• Assure the daily monitoring of the good storage conditions according to the SCI standards.
• Display the content on the Fridge door.
• Follow strictly the contingency plan in case of cold chain breakdown.
• Maintain the temperature between 2-8 OC.
• Ensure the strict respect of the packaging procedure for the transport in passive cold chain.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
• Ambition:
• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Essential

• Minimum of BSc in Pharmacy with a valid license to practice 
• Two years of related experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Experience of medical supply chain management
• Experience working with INGO.
• Flexible, positive, and proactive approach to work
• Written and spoken English.

Desirable

• Ability to work in and maintain a positive team dynamic in insecure environments.
• Demonstrate ability to work in a multi-cultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships both within and outside the organization.