Job Description
STATEMENT OF DUTIES TO BE PERFORMED
Program Management
- Serves as‘a COR/AOR and/or Activity Manager for health logistics and supply chain programs/projects/activities awarded through the Health Office, providing financial and programmatic oversight to ensure contracts and grants achieve anticipated results, and are linked to and enhance attamment of the Health Office, Mission, and USG objectives.
- Conducts. site visits as. required in. order to monitor progress, and to provide technical and programmatic recommendations to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and judicious use of U.S. Government (USG) funding.
Technical Guidance and Leadership
- Stay abreast of state-of-the-art knowledge, programming and best practices related to supply chain management and utilize this information to improve host country supply chain management.
- Coordinate exchanges and sharing of best practices among USAID, USG and other stakeholders to. strengthen health logistics.and supply chain systems improvement.
- Provide technical guidance and leadership to the host country government in coordiiating health supply chain systems support. supply: planning, forecasting, quantification and programming.
- Guide USAID and host country government on strategic decisions and policy formulation to strengthen supply chain management, including transparency and accountability
- Provide technical guidance and coordination to Health Office colleagues to-ensure development of key systems that effectively integrate. across the entire health portfolio.
- Provide guidance to Health Office colleagues to monitor the achievement of milestones of IPs supporting health fogistics and supply chain system implementation.
- Support host country efforts: to ensure health supply chain systems fully integrate with key commodity management and information systems that will allow end to end data visibility.
Representation and Reporting
- Represents the Health Office, Mission, and USG at national and/or international technical and programmatic meetings, within various working groups, and in consultations with other social sector donors, government officials, and IPs.
- Represents supply chaii issues to senior host country officials to ensure strong coordination and accountability by all relevant actors in the supply chain system.
- Provides technical and strategic leadership in the preparation of key annual and mid-term planning reporting documents including the Country Operational Plan, Operational Plan, Congressional Budget Justifications, Quarterly, Semi-Annual and Annual Progress Reports.
- Prepare ad hoc reports.as required for the Mission, USAID/Washington, Office of Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), donor coordination groups. and others.
- Drafts talking- points and/or speeches for the Office Chief, Mission Director, Ambassador and others, as required, and prepares briefing papers. presentations, and coordinates site preparations for VIP site visits.
- Coordinate with USG agencies in on HIV and related commodities. management to guide and oversee procurement via the current USG supply chain mechanism. This includes forecasting, quantification, and procurement of commodities, such as antiretroviral and anti-tuberculosis medicines, male circumcision kits, devices and supplies, and HIV test kits, as needed for the implementation of the overall health portfolio and to ensure adequate stock monitoring-at site and above-site levels.
- Participate in workshops, special committees, and other fora as a.technical advisor on logistics and supply chain management.
The contractor is eligible for travel to the U.S., or to other locations abroad, for training, for temporary duty, of to participate in the “Foreign Service National” Fellowship Program, in accordance with USAID policy.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION
a. Education: Completion of a US-style University Master’s Degree in a field related to social science. statistics, mathematics, mathematics, economics, computer science, epidemiology, health informatics, public health, infectious disease, zoonotic disease, biology or other quantitative discipline, or the local equivalent.
b. Prior Experience: A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible. professional- level experience in developing. implementing. and/or monitoring and evaluating health supply chain performance improvement activities. including supply chain management. logistics, health commodities management. rational drug use. and/or other closely related area. Experience collaborating with and/or working for key donors. development partners. or NGO.
c. Language: English and Amharic at Level IV.
DEADLINE: 08/27/2024, no later than 5:00 p.m (EAT) (close of business).
