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 organizations, 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 organization works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of National health systems, which helps to relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity.

Despite the remarkable improvements in the child survival rates, Nigeria still falls short of the Sustainable Development Goal target of no more than 25 deaths/1,000 live births. Safety and Antimicrobial Resistance of Mass Administration of Azithromycin in children (SARMAAN II) Project in Nigeria is a public health initiative focused on the mass administration of Azithromycin to 1 – 59 months children, a key intervention to reduce under-five mortality caused by three major childhood killer diseases: malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Logistics Assistant

Location: Jigawa
Employment Type: Temporary

Job purpose

• To assist the Supply Chain Officer and the state LMCU in the management of SARMAAN II commodities and medicines in Kaduna, Kebbi, Jigawa, Gombe and Adamawa State offices.

Scope of work

• The Logistics Assistant will be actively responsible for supporting an effective and efficient logistic management and inventory control system for SARMAAN II commodities and medicines in State office.
• 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 SARMAAN II 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 (AZM), implementation tools, training materials and visibility materials for each AZM round.
• Carry out the sorting, counting and documentation of AZM reversed to the CMS at the end of each AZM round.
• 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 empty bottles from unused ones and ensure they are clearly labelled.
• Support the conduct of post last mile distribution POD reconciliation.
• Assist in monitoring delivery of SARMAAN II commodities and escalate any discrepancies in the quantity of commodities delivered and any quality issues.
• Support the monthly stock status assessment of all SARMAAN II commodities at the state central medical store.
• Any other duty as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Expected Deliverables

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

Requirements

• A minimum of Senior Secondary Certificate Examination.
• Must be computer literate
• At least one year 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 pick and pack of public health commodity is an added advantage.
• Previous working experience with MC and in SMC are added advantages.

Application Closing Date
19th January, 2026; 5:00pm.