• Application Deadline: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Project Pharmacy Manager


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 4 - 5 years


• Location Kano


• Job Field Pharmaceutical 
  

Accountabilities / Responsibilities

• Ensures that narcotics, psychotropics and other controlled drugs are properly managed in the project according to national regulations and MSF protocols.


• Ensures physical inventories are conducted on a regular basis (partial inventory), and as a minimum before the preparation of each international order(full inventory).


• Ensures strict compliance to national guidelines and MSF procedures for the management, storage, handling and safety of expired and/or damaged medical items in the project.


• Follow up and ensure the proper management and regular update of any Emergency Preparedness Response Plan stock at the project level.


• To create proposal or new strategies to improve the stock management and follow up of medical stocks at the various end user units in the project.


• Supports MSF-WACA in the registration/renewal of the pharmacy warehouse license via use of his / her PCN license when the need arises.


• Ensures the proper security of and control over access to the pharmacy premises.


• Analyzes regularly the data produced by Isystock and anticipates the needs based on project activity.


• Check coherence between consumption and prescriptions for a list of vital and essential medical items, to be defined with the project medical referent.


• Collects information relating to any undesirable side effects of medicines and communicates it to the project medical referent and pharmacy coordinator.


• Collects and analyses pharmacy related data and indicators for reporting purposes (particularly donations, orders, problems, stock shortfalls, etc.).


• Advise the project medical referent appropraitely on all pharma related activities (old and new) in the project.


• With the project medical referent, draws up a standard list of products per type of consumption units/activity (health centre, hospital ward, etc.) to form the project medical standard list.


• Participates, along with the medical referent and the pharmacy coordinator, in drawing up, consolidating, planning and preparation of medical orders and annual planning of operations (ARO).


• Supervises the reception of international orders and/or Local purchase items in the project and recording of all data in Isystock (receipts and issue).


• Ensures that the approval process for orders from the different consumption units (departments, health centres, emergency boxes, etc.) is followed.


• Ensures archiving of all documents is properly done (pro-forma orders, packing lists, etc).


• Supervises the pharmacy supervisor, storekeeper, store keeper assistant and medicine dispenser.


• Defines the team’s training needs in accordance with project objectives and regularly organizes on-the-job training for team members and all staff managing drugs (ward supervisors, dispens-ers) concerning the pharmaceutical issues (storage, inventories, dispensary).


• Carries out individual reviews for the members of his/her team at least every 6 months.


• Organises and leads regular team meetings as well as sharing relevant information flow within his/her team.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Education: Pharmacy Degree (or equivalent 4-5 years diploma) is required.


• Mandatory licensing with Pharmacy Council of Nigeria.


• Experience: 2 years of demonstrated experience as a pharmacist is required.


• Experience in MSF or other NGO is desirable.


• Languages: Essential fluency in spoken and written English is required.


• Knowledge of Hausa is desirable.


• Knowledge: Computer proficiency in MS Word, advance excel, internet is required.


• Advance knowledge of Isystock is desirable.


• Competencies: people management and Development, Commitment to MSF principles, Behavioral flexibility, Result and quality orientation, Teamwork and Cooperation.

Remuneration

• According to the MSFW salary scale (Level 10) in Nigeria