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Job Description

• Manage health and nutrition stock required by HNT in project locations in line with Medair guidelines and best practice.
• Set up pharmacy and nutrition dispensing station at mobile clinic sites.
• Prepare Stock Requests in coordination with HNT team to ensure no stock outs of essential medicines at clinic sites.
• Dispense medicines, medical supplies, and nutrition commodities to beneficiaries as per prescriptions provided by HNT clinical staff.
• Ensure the required HNT PPE is available and in use appropriately at clinic sites.
• Provide education to beneficiaries receiving nutrition supplies or medicines to ensure they know how to take in accordance with prescription. The PA will be familiar with health and nutrition job aids for routine nutrition rations and medication.
• Maintain required documentation, including pharmacy dispensing register and nutrition commodities records, tally sheets and upload daily for visibility on pharmacy dashboard.
• Organize preparation and loading of health facility supplies and equipment and return of supplies to logistics with required documentation.
• Report any problem with the quality of supplies available to logistics, HNT leader and line manager. Complete a loss report for any damaged items.
• Support to logs team as needed to implement Medair medicine stock management policies, including physical stock checks.
• Plan, manage and disburse CHNWs incentives and properly document payment details to ensure transparency while doing the entire process.

General:

• Implement, relevant policies and standards relating to health and nutrition service delivery including, national requirements and donor guidelines.

• Participate as requested in Medair internal workshops and distance learning sessions to keep up with new guidelines and best practices.
• Follow all health facility standard procedures for COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures.
• Support the HNT as needed to set up health facility clinic sites, ensure appropriate pharmacy location and waiting areas consider beneficiary safety in relation to COVID-19 IPC measures, environment.
• Dispense medicines and nutrition supplies to beneficiaries, according to prescriptions and standard rations.
• Provide beneficiaries with medicine information in accordance with prescription.
• Support the Project team to prepare list of medicines with the standard/required specification.
• Demonstrate that all beneficiaries have received the medicines prescribed.
• Record all pharmaceuticals dispensed in pharmacy registers for each patient and tally all medicine provided.
• Enter daily pharmacy data into ODK.
• Maintain record of HNT pharmacy and nutrition stock.
• Based on project need determine HNT needs in terms of storage, medicines, and project commodities and in coordination with HNT prepare stock requests
• Ensure medicines, medical supplies and nutrition commodities are prepared and loaded for transportation to clinic sites.
• On request, advise project staff regarding pharmacy management and alert team leader to any concerns/issues.
• Provide required information to the project team.
• Keep awareness and alert system on drugs batch recalls and failures.
• Support Logistics Department in procurement and supply of drugs and commodities.
• On request, provide any type of logistics support requested by line manager.
• Plan, manage and disburse CHNWs incentives and properly document payment details to ensure transparency while doing the entire process.
• Perform any other duties to support HNT and project implementation assigned by the line manager

Skills Required

• Management

Submission Guideline:

Interested applicants should apply and forward their applications through the online JOB APPLICATION FORM which could be found under the submission email. The link should be copied, pasted and opened in a new page.

Note: Please indicate the position tittle and vacancy number in your application letter. Applications received after the closing date or without the exact position title and vacancy number will not be given consideration. After submitting the online application, if some applicants do not immediately receive an automatic email from Medair, they shouldn't worry about their submission. When you open the link. please use the dropdown menu and choose the tittle of the position.

Note: 

Medair will provide the following benefits for the selected candidate:

• Competitive salary 
• Employment benefits such as (medical, transportation, economic hardship, food, Mahram and accommodation for non-residents)
• Annual leave, sick leave, maternity leave, and other types of leave as per Medair policy

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