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Job Description
Title |
Pharmacy officer |
Duty Station |
Mokha with frequent visits to Aden |
Reports to |
Health and Nutrition Program Manager |
Announcing Date |
19th May 2021 |
Closing Date |
28th May 2021 |
Contract duration |
5 months renewable with probation period |
General Information on the Mission |
PU-AMI’s strategy/position in the country |
Première Urgence - Aide Médicale Internationale (PU-AMI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilian victims of marginalization and exclusion, or those hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people in order to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency. The association leads in average 190 projects a year in the following sectors of intervention: Food Security, Health, Nutrition, Construction and Rehabilitation of infrastructures, Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Economic Recovery. PU-AMI is providing assistance to around 5 million people in 20 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and France. Yemen is one of the 30 poorest countries in the world with 54% of the population (2014 est.) living below the poverty line on less than two dollars a day. In parallel, since 2011 and the Yemeni revolution, the State is facing major humanitarian challenges. The transitional process failed to provide sustainable peace in the region. The country is now divided in two, with northern Yemen being under severe stress to provide for its population. In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition began airstrikes in support of southern based pro-government forces, leading to a very unstable situation and dire humanitarian needs. The armed conflict has spread rapidly throughout much of Yemen since mid-March 2015, with devastating consequences for civilians. Two years of violence has led one of the world's poorest countries into chaos. Around 70% of the population, or 18.8 million people, now depend on humanitarian aid (OCHA); 2.8 million people are displaced; Dozens of schools and hospitals were the target of attacks; 17 million Yemenis are food insecure and 3 million children and pregnant or lactating women are acutely malnourished. The lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation also affects 14 million people. 14.8 million people have no access to health care. A generation of Yemeni children is at risk, as nearly 2 million children do not have access to education because of conflict, poverty and discrimination. Yemen has turned into the number one humanitarian crisis in absolute numbers of people in need. |
History of the mission and current programs |
PU-AMI has been present in Yemen since 2007. From 2007 to 2011, PU-AMI supported the primary health system in Hodeidah Governorate. After a one-year stand-by in 2011 due to security reasons, the mission re-started in July 2012 with a nutrition project focusing both on emergency response and a longer term community-based approach in Hodeidah and extended its activity in Raymah Governorate. In 2019, PU-AMI extended its integrated approach of health, nutriiton, wash in HF and FSL in Taiz governorate In Hodeidah and Raymah governorates, PU-AMI works to contribute to reduce the impact and severity of nutritional challenges and to improve health status of most vulnerable populations, through supplementary nutrition integrated response based upon health, hygiene and nutrition education and capacity building (support to Health facilities, General Food Distributions, etc.). PU-AMI is responding to the ongoing nutrition crisis through the same activities as in Hodeidah (primary health care and management of acute malnutrition for children U5 and pregnant and lactating women), as well as running a Stabilization Centre for severely malnourished children with medical complications. In Taiz Governorate, PU-AMI started activities in 2019. The approach is similar to the above governorates, with an ongoing health and nutrition programming, including primary health care services, community-based management of acute malnutrition for CU5 and pregnant and lactating women. As part of this integrated approach in those three governorates, PU-AMI also implements food security and livelihoods activities, mostly consisting on general food distribution for households with SAM cases and some Food for Training activities (started in 01/2017). In addition, water, hygiene and sanitation is also part of PUI intervention in the focused area, with WASH being prioritized in the rehabilitation of health facilities to manage more effectively nutrition activities. In May 2017, PU-AMI started being a part of the Emergency Cholera Response in Hodeida and Raymah through the set up or Oral Rehydration Points and support of one Cholera Treatment Centre in Raymah. PU-AMI positioned itself in influencing positions, through effective participation to clusters and sub-clusters (health, nutrition; food security and livelihoods; WASH) and working closely with relevant government departments (MOPIC; MoPHP). The mission will explore opportunities for geographical expansion through developing and clarifying expansion criteria beyond the current Governorates and Districts. |
Job Description |
Overall Objective |
Under the overall supervision of the Program Manager, the pharmacy officer will be: 1. Direct responsible for management of base pharmacy (proper pharmaceutical management (procurement, storage, distribution, inventory, consumption, and data management) at respective base level. 2. Ensure the overall functioning of the PU-AMI pharmacies at base and project level (if any), securing an adequate and timely supply of quality medications, medical consumables, and medical equipment to PU-AMI projects. 3. Managing the pharmacy assistant at base and ensure that he/she does the work according to the job description. 4. Technical support to Pharmacists/dispensers at number of HFs/SC in the field (i-e Hodeidah and Mokha) through frequent visits and building capacity on management of health and nutritional stock at field level with respect of PU-AMI procedures. 5. Responsible on management of medical and nutritional supplies at base with support of health and logistic team to ensure the supply chain drugs, consumables and medical items is timely, reliable and well documented at all levels. 6. Technical supervision of storage conditions, management of stock, in and out and reporting for Aden medical store with the support of Pharmacy assistant and log team. |
Tasks and Responsibilities |
Reports: Ensure appropriate data collection, analysis, feedback and follow up through periodic reports and supervision of base and HFs’(Health facilities’) Pharmacy.
Supply management: Participate in need analysis, shortages, gaps and order of pharmaceuticals, medical and nutritional commodities. Lead on storage and distribution at capital pharmacy and follow up on bases’ pharmacy.
Stock management: Ensure Storage conditions, consumption, movement (in/out) and recording data as pharmacy management guideline at base pharmacy and follow up with pharmacy dispenser to imply similar protocols at HF/SC pharmacy.
Staff supervision/ Technical support: Provision of adequate technical guidelines and support to pharmacy assistant at base and dispensers at HF/SC on management of pharmacy through frequent field visits and training/on job coaching.
Others
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General organization of the work |
Hierarchical link
Manage
Work Schedule:
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Required Profile |
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Required knowledge and skills |
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Required |
Desirable |
Training |
Bachelor degree in Pharmacy |
Stock Management |
Professional Experience |
At least two years working experience in Pharmaceutical field |
Experience with NGO is desired. |
Knowledge & Skills
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Trained on Sagastock or any other stock management software or tool
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Languages |
Arabic and English |
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Software |
Advanced skills in Excel –Internet |
Sagastock for Pharmacy |
Required Personal Characteristics (fitting into the team, suitability for the job and assignment) |
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Other Regular movements to the Health facilities/stabilization centers and different base pharmacies and agrees to be based in field (Hodeidah/Mokha/Aden and other developed bases of PU-AMI in country) |
How to Apply
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