Logistics Assistant at Malaria Consortium - 5 Openings

Established in 2003, Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organizations specializing in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and underprivileged populations. We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions. We work in Africa and Asia with communities, governments, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure effective delivery of services, which are supported by strong evidence.

Malaria Consortium, through funding from Philanthropy Funding, supports NMEP and SMEP in Bauchi, Borno, FCT, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kogi, Nasarawa, Oyo and Plateau States to implement Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC). SMC involves the administration of monthly treatment courses of a combination of antimalarial drugs with the objective of maintaining therapeutic antimalarial drug concentrations in the blood throughout the period of transmission (rainy season) to prevent malaria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Logistics Assistant

Location: Plateau
Duration: 10 days for each 5 cycles

Job Purpose

• To assist the Supply Chain Officer and the state LMCU in the management of malaria commodities at the project offices and SMC Medicines and tools at the Central Medical Stores in Plateau State.

Scope of work:

• The Logistics Assistant will be actively responsible for supporting an effective and efficient logistic management and inventory control system for SMC drugs and commodities at the state level.
• S/he will work under the supervision of the Supply Chain Officer with the Admin Officer as dotted line Manager.

Key Working Relationships:

• The Logistics Assistant will be a member of the programme implementation team and report to the Supply Chain Officer in delivering the supply chain distribution work plan and deliverables for the SMC programme.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide support to the Supply Chain Officer and State Central Medical Stores (SCMS) and LMCU on program implementation.
• Carry out pick and pack of implementation medicines (SPAQ), implementation tools, training materials, visibility materials and PPEs for each cycle of the SMC round.
• Carry out the sorting, counting and documentation of SPAQ reversed to the CMS at the end of each SMC cycle.
• Support physical verification of commodities with vendors during receipt into the stores and before dispatch during LMD.
• Ensure delivery notes/waybills are signed and issued to vendors at the CMS during LMD
• Separates damaged blisters from useable ones and ensure they are clearly labelled.
• Support the conduct of post last mile distribution POD reconciliation.
• Assist in monitoring delivery of SMC commodities and escalate any discrepancies in the quantity of commodities delivered and any quality issues.
• Support the monthly stock status assessment of all SMC commodities at the state central medical store.
• Assist in the coordination of reverse logistics for SMC drugs from health facilities to the state central medical store.
• Any other duty may be assigned by the supervisor.

Expected Deliverables:

• Completes the pick and pack of SMC commodities latest 4 days to the commencement of LMD
• Collate and file CMS/duplicate copies of PoDs and all SMC transaction documents
• Reconciled post-distribution stock report for non-medicine SMC commodities.
• Presents and updated report of reverse logistics to the supply chain officer 2 days after each cycle’s reverse logistics at the state central medical store.
• Presents a filled timesheet that is approved by the line manager (supply chain officer), confirming the number of days worked.

Requirements

• A minimum of a Senior Secondary Certificate Examination.
• Must be computer literate
• At least one year of working experience in Commodity Logistics and supply management.
• Ability to work under pressure both in a team and independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work beyond normal working hours to meet urgent project deliverables.
• A collaborative and flexible style, with a strong service mentality.
• Experience in the pick and pack of public health commodities is an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
28th, May 2025, 5:00pm.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• For this position, previous working experience with MC and in SMC are added advantages. 
• Applicants who do not follow this specification will be disqualified. 
• Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and as a result, the process may conclude before the advertised deadline. Therefore, early applications are highly encouraged.
• Malaria Consortium does not accept or ask for payment during recruitment.
• We also would not accept hardcopy CVs; all applications should be sent through the above link.