Save the Children UK recruits 01 Medical Logistician (West and Central Africa)

Save the Children UK recruits 01 Medical Logistician (West and Central Africa)

Internationally Mobile

2 years Fixed Term Contract

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation which stands up for children? Then join us as Medical Logistician, supporting the set up and daily operations of the Emergency Health Unit including supervision and management of national medical logistics staff.  

In our Humanitarian department, we fight for children every single day. We integrate emergency and development work, through our country programmes. We increase our capacity to meet the assistance and protection needs of children and their families affected by crises. We go the extra mile – and we don’t rest until the work is done.

As Medical Logistician you will be regularly deployed and as such, be expected to support the set up and daily operations related to a response’s supply chain and medical procurement. You will also play a major role in supporting the strategic development of the supply chain function. In addition you will:

• Provide support to priority countries on scenario planning, including but not restricting local market assessments, partner meetings and planning, delivering CO training and mentoring
• Develop training materials and support the training of EHU clinicians and operations staff in medical logistics
• Lead on medical logistics aspects of the response to ensure successful set up, management and hand-over/close out of facilities including storage and medical tents, medical equipment and devices, cold chain supplies and equipment
• Ensure high quality standards of health commodity management are met including Good Distribution Practices – which will include warehousing, cold chain management, stock rotation and control, pipeline management, consumption monitoring and ordering
• Work with the logistics and medical team overseeing the reverse logistics of drugs and medical supplies and equipment.

To be successful you will have strong experience with international NGOs in humanitarian medical logistics with at least 2 years’ international experience working as a medical logistician. Qualified in medical logistics or pharmacy or with an equivalent relevant experience, you will have fluent written and spoken English whilst proficiency in a 2^nd language is desirable. In addition you will have:

• Experience of mass vaccination campaigns and strong knowledge of cold chain management
• A good knowledge of general logistics and a willingness to multitask
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Experience of supporting first phase, self-sufficient primary health care programmes
• Flexibility and be able to deploy to overseas locations at very short notice.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we’ll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date: 7^th March 2019