Pharmacy Officer at Save the Children Nigeria

Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children’s lives, fight for their rights and help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Pharmacy Officer

Location: Yobe

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.

Requirements
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.

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.

Application Closing Date
29th May, 2024.