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Regional Supply Chain Advisor

Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
📍 Yaoundé 🇨🇲CDI🗓️ 22 days ago

Job Description

Yaoundé
CDI

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Responsabilités

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Regional Supply Chain Technical Leadership and Coordination (90%)

Localisation

Lead and coordinate MSH technical assistance to strengthen health commodity supply chain systems in the selected Region (duty station/work location), in close collaboration with regional and district public health authorities, regional funds for health promotion, health facilities, and implementing partners. Support regional authorities to collect and review health facility orders and organize routine order-validation meetings, ensuring that decisions are documented and followed through. Support preparation, validation, and use of inventory, stock-status, consumption, distribution, and stock-reconciliation reports for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other priority health commodities supported by the project. Work with relevant technical working groups and project technical staff to monitor regional forecasting and quantification assumptions and identify emerging supply risks. Support the revitalization and effective functioning of regional supply chain coordination mechanisms, including planning meetings, action tracking, and engagement of relevant stakeholders. Plan and coordinate regional supply chain assessments and data-quality assessments; analyze findings and work with counterparts to develop and monitor practical improvement actions. Provide technical assistance to optimize warehouse capacity and strengthen inventory management systems, good storage practices, stock control, expiry management, and accountability for commodities. Support the design and implementation of commodity distribution and last-mile delivery strategies, including appropriate safety-stock levels, delivery-route optimization, stock redistribution, and collaborative distribution arrangements.

Formation / DiplĂ´mes

Strengthen the quality, completeness, timeliness, visibility, and use of logistics data, and promote routine use of approved logistics management information systems and reporting tools for decision-making. Coordinate supportive supervision, mentorship, and on-the-job coaching for regional, district, warehouse, and health facility staff to improve consistent implementation of supply chain standards and procedures. Plan and facilitate training workshops and other capacity-strengthening activities in collaboration with project technical advisors and government counterparts; follow up on application of learning in the workplace. Support appropriate public-private collaboration and other locally relevant approaches that improve commodity availability and supply chain performance at regional level. Participate in project performance reviews; support collection and validation of data for project indicators; and monitor progress against regional workplans, targets, and agreed corrective actions.

Présentation du poste

Prepare clear technical reports and contribute to project reports, technical documents, presentations, learning products, abstracts, and documentation of results, good practices, and lessons learned.

Coordinate closely with the Technical Director, central-level supply chain advisors, regional project staff, and operations teams to ensure that regional activities are aligned with approved project plans, budgets, donor requirements, and MSH standards. Additional Responsibilities (10%) Prepare routine activity updates, field visit and supervision reports, meeting documentation, and other reports requested by the Technical Director. Represent MSH in relevant regional technical and coordination meetings when authorized and follow up on agreed actions with responsible stakeholders. Provide technical guidance and support to regional supply chain staff and consultants, as assigned, and promote consistent quality standards across regional activities. Comply with MSH policies, donor requirements, safeguarding standards, ethical standards, and mandatory training requirements. Perform other duties consistent with the position as assigned by the Technical Director.

QUALIFICATIONS

REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION

Required: Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, medicine, public health, supply chain management, logistics, pharmaceutical systems, or a related field. Preferred: Master’s degree or advanced professional training in health supply chain management, pharmaceutical management, logistics, or health systems strengthening.

Expérience

Bachelor’s degree with four to six years of relevant professional experience; master’s degree with two to four years of relevant experience; or doctoral degree with one to two years of relevant experience in health commodity supply chain management, pharmaceutical management, logistics, or implementation of public health programs. Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance and working with regional, district, or facility-level supply chain stakeholders. Experience with HIV/AIDS and malaria commodity programs, last-mile distribution, supportive supervision, and data-quality assessment is preferred.

Strong knowledge of Cameroon’s public health system and health commodity supply chain functions at regional, district, and health facility levels. Technical knowledge of forecasting, quantification, supply planning, order management, warehousing, inventory control, good storage practices, distribution, and last-mile delivery. Ability to analyze logistics and commodity data, assess stock status and supply risks, and translate findings into practical corrective actions. Experience with logistics management information systems, electronic reporting tools, data-quality assessments, and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel. Strong skills in technical leadership, stakeholder coordination, facilitation, coaching, supportive supervision, report writing, and problem-solving. Ability to work effectively with government counterparts, regional coordination bodies, donors, and implementing partners. Professional fluency in French or English is required, with working ability in the other language preferred. Familiarity with the selected Region (duty station/work location) and relevant local languages is an advantage.

COMPETENCIES

Technical leadership, collaboration, and accountability. Strategic and analytical thinking, sound judgment, and practical problem-solving. Clear communication, adaptability, initiative, and commitment to quality and results.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Frequent travel within the selected Region (duty station/work location), including visits to regional warehouses, health districts, and health facilities. Occasional travel to Yaoundé or other locations in Cameroon may be required.

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