Assistant Technical Officer - Essential Drugs (ED) at Nigerian Red Cross Society

DUTY STATION

Calabar, Cross River State

LINE MANAGER

Technical Officer - Clinical Services

Job Purpose 

Under the direct supervision of the Technical Officer-Clinical Services, the Assistant Technical Officer - Essential Drugs (ATO-ED) willsupport the implementation of sustainable essential drugs supply component of delivering health and nutrition intervention to the Cameroon refugees and host communities in Calabar operations office.

Job roles and responsibilities

• Provide Logistics support to the outreach team and PHCs focusing on reporting, distribution, storage, and warehousing of PHC essential drugs and commodities.
• Support the PHC on product selection, quality assurance, receipt of commodities and efficient storage and distribution systems including laboratory logistics.
• Work with the team in developing, maintaining, and improving a logistics management information for PHCs
• Ensure establishment and strengthening of Performance Based Financing and Drug Revolving Fund systems committees for health facilities through engagement of host and refugee communities.
• Support coordinated systems for NRCS to transport health commodities report and forecast delivery times, transport costs and performance to reduce stock-outs, eliminate wastes and lower costs.
• Ensure that all documentation for health commodities in the team is complete and compliant to established standards.
• Monitor disbursements of Medications, drugs and consumables to health facilities.
• Coordinate the PBF intervention including independent monitors contract, deployment, facility gains and follow up on challenges reported by the facilities
• Ensure PHC utilize the PBF gains for sustainable DRF according to the project plan
• Support PHC to generate essential drug list based on NPHCDA minimum standards and ensure linkage of PHCs to vendors for procurement of commodities.
• Liase with other ATO for commodity distribution to other locations
• He/ She shall also provide mentorship and guidance to health workers in PHCs on LMIS.
• Support the team in the development of Terms of References for planned activities such as capacity building, missions, meetings, stakeholder engagements etc.
• Review the teams weekly, monthly and quarterly project reports
• Review retirements and other financial documents before submission to NHQ
• Submit reports of Project activities to the NHQ

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy
• Must be registered with Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria
• Must possess a valid practicing license
• At least two years’ experience in clinical work or humanitarian settings.

Knowledge, Skills & Attributes

• Ability and willingness to stay at the project sites is required
• Ability to respect and maintain medical secrets and confidentiality at all times
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions like long distance walking to distribution sites.
• High level of integrity
• Excellent written and oral proficiency in the local language.
• Excellent Advocacy skills
• In-depth Knowledge of PHC services in Nigeria
• Excellent report writing
• Coordination and team-building skills
• Strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to multitask and work with minimal supervision
• Excellent MS Office skills (including Word, Excel, Power-point etc.)