Bamako ( Mali )

Vacancy-Job Ref: JKMLWHO/2401/2024808
Rationale for the position
To serve as the WHO Focal Point for medicines and other health products (vaccines, blood, blood derivatives, medical devices including diagnostic tests, traditional medicines and nutritional products for therapeutic use) as well as for health laboratories, with the aim of supporting the country in ensuring their quality, safety, effectiveness, availability, accessibility and rational use.
Organizational context
The holder of the position in charge of the EDM program will work under the supervision of the WHO Representative in Bamako (WR) and in close collaboration and consultation with the other program managers of the country office, the technical clusters of the Regional office and seat.
She/He will be in permanent contact with the Supply Directorate, the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority, the Central Purchasing of Essential Medicines and other structures concerned with pharmaceutical research and development, local production, selection based on evidence, prices, financing of health products, supply, regulation/quality assurance, monitoring of availability and prices, rational use and monitoring and evaluation of national policies regarding medicines and other health products. He/She will facilitate and coordinate activities in collaboration with regional technical advisors, and in consultation with country program managers, national institutions, NGOs, partners, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and United Nations agencies.
The work of the EDM Program Officer will be based on relevant frameworks, resolutions and recommendations in this area, adopted at all levels of the Organization. He/She will be expected to take initiative and be innovative when adapting WHO guidelines, and perform well in planning, implementing and managing work plans, following the guidance contained in policy documents. of the WHO (notably the 13th General Program of Work and the Program Budget documents covering the different bienniums, among others).
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Under the supervision of the WHO Representative (WR), the EDM Program Manager will:
- Provide technical assistance for the development, implementation and monitoring & evaluation of policies , strategies and plans relating to pharmacy, medicines and other health products
- Support the Ministry of Health in the coordination of national actors and technical and financial partners in the pharmaceutical sector and facilitate communication between WHO, at country level , regional and headquarters, with the Ministry of Health as well as other technical and financial partners, professional associations, non-governmental organizations, universities, the private sector working in the pharmaceutical field
- Support the national party in the identification of priority interventions, develop work plans and ensure their implementation while ensuring proper execution of the funds made available
- Contribute to the strategy for strengthening human resources in the pharmaceutical sector
- Contribute to strengthening the capacities of players in the pharmaceutical sector in all relevant areas, and more particularly supply, regulation as well as selection, rational use, pricing policies, antimicrobial resistance, monitoring of availability, prices, quality , adverse effects of medicines and other health products
- Provide technical assistance for the adaptation of WHO norms, standards and guidelines relating to the pharmaceutical sector and their implementation as well as management procedures and tools
- Contribute to the strengthening the national pharmaceutical supply system, particularly with regard to the progressive integration of all supplies, the implementation of supply plans, the logistics management information system (SIGL) of pharmaceutical products and the improvement of management at the decentralized/peripheral level
- Contribute to the strengthening of the national pharmaceutical regulatory system and the implementation of regulatory functions to ensure the quality of products for the population
- Contribute to all activities related to the fight against substandard/falsified medicines and the fight against antimicrobial resistance
- Contribute to the development of operational research in the pharmaceutical sector, to the documentation and sharing of good practices as well as to the development of research for improved traditional medicines
- Provide technical support for the strengthening of medical biology analysis laboratories (infrastructure, standards, standard of equipment and methods) and the creation of a national laboratory network including reference laboratories
- Provide technical support for the strengthening the fight against antimicrobial resistance
- Provide technical and institutional support in order to operationalize the department dedicated to the laboratory within the structure of the Ministry of Health and Social Development.
- Provide technical support for the establishment of a poison control center in Mali as part of the management of health risks
- Actively participate in any cooperation and harmonization initiative in particular with the Regional Economic Communities and more particularly those carried out by UEMOA, ECOWAS/WAHO and both in the field of pharmaceutical regulation and other pharmaceutical fields including local production, supplies and training
- Contribute to the mobilization of resources, political dialogue and transparency and good governance in the pharmaceutical sector
- Interact dynamically with pharmaceutical advisors from other countries, AFRO regional office and headquarters
- Perform any other tasks within his competence as assigned by the WHO representative.

📌 ### 📌 Required qualifications

Hold a Pharmacist diploma or any other equivalent diploma

/>An additional diploma in public health and/or additional training in the field of supply management, pharmaceutical regulations or laboratories would be an asset .

📌 ### 📌 Essential Experience

### 📌 ### 📌 Have at least five (05) years of experience in regulatory, pharmaceutical supply and public health systems in resource-limited countries.

Have solid expertise in pharmaceutical management and in the field of quality assurance of health products

/>Have adequate knowledge of health laboratory development.
Have a good knowledge of health system strengthening and the policies and procedures of technical and financial partners usually supporting the pharmaceutical sectors.

📌 ### 📌 Practical experience in