Logistics Assistant at Malaria Consortium

Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit organizations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. The Head Office is in London, at Development House, 56-64, Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT, UK, with the Africa Regional Office in Kampala, the Asia Regional Office in Bangkok and the Nigeria Regional Office in Abuja.

Malaria Consortium, through funding from Philanthropic Fund, GF and KOICA supported NMEP and SMEP in Bauchi, Jigawa, Sokoto, Kano, Kogi, Plateau, Nasarawa, Oyo, Niger, Kaduna, Kano, FCT, and Kebbi 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: Kebbi
Employment Type: Temporary

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 Kebbi 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 as 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 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination.
• At least one year working experience in Commodity Logistics and supply management.
• Must be computer literate
• 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 pick and pack of public health commodity is an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
27th June, 2025.

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.
• Kindly note that applicants who do not follow this specification will be disqualified.
• Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Kindly note that 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.