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Organization: UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund
Country: Cameroon
City: Yaoundé
Office: UNFPA Yaoundé, Cameroon
Grade: P-3
Closing date: Monday, 28 November 2022
Job Identification: 6793
Locations: Yaounde, Cameroon
Posting Date: 11/07/2022, 03:03 PM
Apply Before: 11/28/2022, 10:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full time
Grade: P3
Vacancy Type: Fixed Term
Rotational/Non Rotational: Non-Rotational
Contract Duration: 1 Year with Possibility for extension
Education and Work Experience: Master’s Degree – 5 year(s) experience
Required Languages: English, French
Vacancy Timeline: 3 Weeks
Job Category: Administration/Operations/Support
Job Description
The Position: The Supply Chain Specialist plays a key role in ensuring the sustainability of national RHCS efforts to deliver quality reproductive health and family planning services, including uninterrupted supplies of products, with particular attention to reaching marginalized populations.
S/he will collaborate with national authorities, civil society organizations, private sector, and development agencies to provide technical support to increase demand for informed and voluntary Family Planning products for women and men of reproductive age and to secure availability of Reproductive Health commodities. S/he will report to the Representative, who will provide overall direction and supervision, and will work in close collaboration with the West Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO), the Commodity Security Branch (CSB), based on an approved annual work plan and with the Supply Chain Management Unit. As the Supply Chain Specialist for the RHCS and health systems, s/he will work within an integrated, coordinated, and systems strengthening approach that is fundamental for UNFPA overall strategy.
How you can make a difference:
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals
In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
Job Purpose:
The RHCS Specialist will provide leadership and technical support to the development and implementation of the national Reproductive Health program to ensure the mainstreaming of RHCS into policies and programmes. S/he will have the responsibility – in response to country requests, and within the broadly sexual and reproductive health, health system strengthening and financing – for the promotion, design, monitoring, and evaluation of all phases of equitable Reproductive Health commodity and family planning availability throughout all sectors (public, private, non-profit, subsidized, and commercial), as well as supply management system, guidelines, and standards. S/he will provide technical backstopping and support/conduct relevant research, analysis and training activities aimed at providing information and knowledgebase and readily useable methodologies to RH/FP planners, policy makers, programme managers and service providers. The incumbent will contribute to enhancing national capacity to mobilize and obtain social and political support for national policies and programmes in the field of Reproductive Health Commodity Security (RHCS). Such support will also contribute to overall health management and coordination, health system strengthening and HIV prevention efforts.
You would be responsible for:
- Technical support and advocacy
Improve commodities visibility management
Support and advocate for inclusion of RHCS in all national development frameworks (Global Financing Facility (GFF), Universal Health Coverage (UHC), etc.).
Provide technical support in development, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies, strategies, and programs related to RHCS and supply chain.
Collaborate with other UN Agencies to promote and provide integrated technical support for RH/RHCS within countries (particularly with WHO and UNICEF) and to carry out and implement findings of joint assessment of critical maternal health drugs.
- Capacity development and partnerships
Contribute to enhancing national capacity to develop and maintain reproductive health services and commodity systems. These tasks will involve design and facilitation of formal training and conducting informal, on-the-job training.
Identify IP’s strengths and weaknesses (in the areas of Supply Chain Map and required risk mitigation actions, including capacity-building efforts
Identify, develop and/or adapt training materials and manuals in the substantive area and ensure their availability for capacity development, and support their implementation.
Contribute to resource mobilization in the Reproductive Health Commodity Security sector
Lead and build capacity of stakeholders in commodity forecasting, inventory control systems, storage and distribution of RH commodities including contraceptives
Coach, monitor expert consultants, and facilitate working groups and task teams.
Develop capacity through coaching, mentoring and formal on-the-job training, when working with (including supervising) national staff or (non-) governmental counterparts, including Implementing Partners (IPs).
- Evidence and knowledge development and dissemination
Contribute to the identification, analysis and synthesis of technical knowledge and evidence-based information in RHCS.
Make significant contributions to analytic works aiming to collect and review lessons learned from implementation and to refine methodologies for effective RHCS within a decentralized planning and budgeting context.
Contribute to the successful execution of impact evaluations and provide support in developing a prioritized operational research agenda for UNFPA.
Remain knowledgeable and up to date on all technical and implementation issues that relate to RHCS as well as other components of Health systems development.
Support and build the capacity of the MOH experts in the collection, reporting, analysis, and use of logistics data for decision-making and for M&E (logistics indicators).
Promote UNFPA’s comparative substantive role and specific contribution in the changing development agenda.
Manage the provision of technical assistance in improving forecasting, warehousing, distribution, transportation, and logistics management information systems including in humanitarian settings
Leads substantive monitoring of procurement and supply chain for health products and proactively review the underperformance, bottlenecks and ensures the accountability for the timely implementation of corrective actions to ensure timely supply of health products to achieve the programme objectives.
Advocate for adequate lead times in ordering commodities, for adequate budgeting for donor coordination relating to commodity supplies and for procurement of cost effective and serviceable equipment.
Regularly monitor the level of RH commodities availability and stock-out levels at central and decentralized warehouses, as well as at service delivery points, through the review of information provided by the national coordination mechanisms; information from national Logistics Management Information System (LMIS); surveys; periodic on-site monitoring visits to the facilities; and other appropriate monitoring activities.
Overall responsibility for monitoring the timely ordering, clearance, receipt, safeguarding, handover, distribution and use for intended purposes of the goods, including the timely completion of all Last Mile Assurance (LMA) process activities, and for ensuring adequate remedial actions are taken by the appropriate roles in response to issues affecting the process.
Review Order Tracking System (OTS) and Shipment Tracker (ST) data to identify red flags indicative of problems in the processes (e.g., delays in shipments or customs clearance; shipping documents not sent or received; aged in-transit or static inventory; items approaching their expiration dates; missing handover documents) and ensuring adequate remedial actions are timely taken; and
Enforcing compliance with inventory management requirements such as timely submission of inventory certifications and completion of periodic stock counts.
Ensure that sufficient visibility and assurance is obtained over the adequate safeguarding, management, and use for intended purposes of programme supplies after their handover to partners or beneficiaries through the Last Mile Assurance (LMA) process and other appropriate monitoring activities
Coordinate and provide technical support in annual survey of availability of contraceptive, essential and Life Saving maternal health drugs in Service Delivery Points
Qualifications and Experience:
Education:
Master’s degree in public health, medicine, social sciences, pharmacy, or other related fields. Courses certificates in logistics, essential drugs, health system strengthening, and financing would be an asset.
Knowledge and Experience:
5 years’ experience in increasing responsibilities at the national level in SRH ideally, in logistics systems, public sector pharmaceutical supplies management of which 3 years’ experience should be in developing countries with direct experience relating to health and logistics systems and management of family planning programmes.
Knowledge of public sector pharmaceutical program management at national level, especially in policy & management, Selection, Access, Quality Assurance and Rational Drug Use is an asset.
Extensive knowledge of supply management: forecasting, warehousing, distribution, transportation, logistics information systems.
Health sector-specific experience, including Experience with Public Health systems in developing countries, Health Commodity Supply Market, Logistics, and inventory management related to pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, based on sound Supply Chain Management countries principles
General knowledge of the principles and operational aspects of integrated reproductive healthcare.
Familiarity with UN development programmes and working procedures, especially UNFPA policies and programming procedures, would be an asset.
Proven experience in managing complex programs and large-scale projects would be an asset.
Computer Literacy: Proficiency in the use of standard MS Office packages and the Internet.
Languages:
Excellent written and oral communications skills. Fluency in French and English is required.
Required Competencies:
Values:
Exemplifying integrity,
Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
Embracing cultural diversity,
Embracing change
Core Competencies:
Achieving results,
Being accountable,
Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
Thinking analytically and strategically,
Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships,
Functional Competencies:
Organizational Leadership and direction.
Strategically position UNFPA programmes in the country.
Providing conceptual innovation to support programme effectiveness.
Strengthening the programme and technical capacity of country offices.
Facilitating quality programmatic results.
Internal and external communication and advocacy for resource mobilization.
Managerial Competencies (if applicable):
Providing strategic focus.
Engaging in internal/external partners and stakeholders.
Leading, developing, and empowering people, creating a culture of performance.
Making decisions and exercising judgment.
Compensation and Benefits:
This position offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits as applicable.
Disclaimer:
UNFPA does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Fraudulent notices, letters or offers may be submitted to the UNFPA fraud hotline http://www.unfpa.org/help/hotline.cfm
In accordance with the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, persons applying to posts in the international Professional category, who hold permanent resident status in a country other than their country of nationality, may be required to renounce such status upon their appointment.
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