Health Consultant - Nation Drug Distribution at Nina Jojer Limited

Nina Jojer Limited is a Pan-African consulting firm committed to empowering transformation in Africa by providing innovative solutions to businesses, governments, and organizations. Our core services include Policy Development, Strategic Advisory, Stakeholder Management and Advocacy, Digital Transformation, and Data-Driven Insights. We are dedicated to driving impact and fostering long-term growth for our clients.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Health Consultant - Nation Drug Distribution

Location: Abuja (FCT) 
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary
Background:

• The department of Food and Drugs Services of the Federal Ministry of Health has as part of her mandate to promote the health of all Nigerians through the formulation of national policies, development of guidelines and strategies and initiation of legislation aimed at ensuring that food, medicines & other health commodities, chemicals, cosmetics, medical devices and drinking water available in Nigeria are safe and efficacious and by ensuring provision of ethical pharmaceutical services in the public and private sectors of our health care delivery system nationwide.
• To ensure promotion of health through the distribution of health commodities in order to achieve universal health coverage, there is a need to develop the National Drug Distribution Guideline which aimed at establishing a well-ordered drug distribution system in Nigeria with an objective to ensure that all drugs in the national drug distribution system are safe, efficacious, effective, affordable, and of good quality.

Justification:

• The existing National Drug Distribution Guidelines (NDDG) was launched in 2016 during the pre-Strategy era. Since then, a significant number of the assumptions and approaches upon which it was developed have changed, thus the need to review and customize the document to align with the National Health PSM strategy (2021-2025) and its Blueprints. More importantly, NPSCMP will use the opportunity to also align the document with the National Supply chain transition plan to avoid conflicting implementation processes in the states and the FMoH level

Purpose:

• The objective of the consultancy is to support the DFDS to review and finalize the framework on NDDG which is a crucial document in the health supply chain system, and to ensure smooth running of operations are put in place.
• The framework for the operationalization of the central medical stores will articulate the governance system for the management of the network of the federal central, federal axial, state central and the state axial warehouses.

Job Details
Task Description:

• He/she will work with relevant officers of the Department of Food and Drugs Services and stakeholders to review and finalize the National Drug Distribution Guidelines (NDDG) through the outlined processes:
• Desk review the draft version 2.0 of the NDDG
• Support DFDS to organize a workshop for the review of the draft NDDG
• Harvest final stakeholders’ input
• Determine how the central warehouses will function effectively as hubs of distribution excellence for each state.
• Consolidation of stakeholders for finalization of the document
• Review and validate final draft of Document for final approval.
• Assess the organizational capacity of DFDS/FMOH staff using standardized tools.
• Build capacity of DFDS/FMoH staff

Responsibilities include

• Conduct in depth desk review of the 2016 NDDG and come up with a draft
• Prepare these agenda for the two times 5 days’ workshop
• Facilitate Stakeholder engagement workshop to Review the draft NDDG
• Using information gathered from the workshop and package the report to come up with the NDDG.
• Develop a comprehensive report on the activity and implementation plan.
• Perform any other assigned duties by the Director DVD/FDS/FMoH related to the above task to achieve the objectives of the consultancy.

Deliverables:

• Reviewed NDDG that will lead to reduction in the levels of adulterated and fake drugs in the market Implementation plan
• Comprehensive report on the activity

Requirements
Education:

• A Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy (B. Pharm) with 15 years post qualification
• Advanced degree in public health Pharmacy or a related field or Professional certification in supply chain

Language:

• English

Work Experience:

• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in warehouse management and distribution
• A minimum of Five (5) years’ experience in conducting organizational review and development of frameworks, SOPs, guidelines and policies.
• Working in both the private and public space is an added advantage
• Proficiency in development of distribution matrix and route plans
• Thorough knowledge and proven experience in programme evaluation
• Deep understanding of the Supply Chain programming in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate and work well with diverse people.
• Excellent English writing skills.
• Knowledgeable in PPP arrangement
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and to work effectively under pressure, including in a multi-cultural environment.

Application Closing Date
2nd July, 2025.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and cover letter to: careers.ninajojer@gmail.com using the job title as the subject of the mail.