Medical Supply Chain Strengthening Specialists (Samburu) at Save the Children

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Collaborate with Ministry of Health at County, Sub County, Health facility and Community Health unit levels of health care to promote sustained delivery of Health and Nutrition interventions.
• Provide regular technical support and guidance to the department of health county, Sub County and Health facility managers and Health service delivery staff to address logistics system problems to ensure consistent supply of commodities.
• Work closely with the County Health Management Team (CHMT) to support supply and management of pharmaceuticals and non-pharmaceutical including coordinating CHMT support for the sub-counties, facilities and community units
• Collaborate with County Department of Health at all levels of health care to ensure availability of commodities in public and private health facilities, and community health unit level.
• Gather data, analyze and address medical supply chain system bottlenecks to ensure sustainability and accountability.
• Build the capacity of health staff on commodities and supplies management through supervision, coaching, mentorship and support to teams in the implementation of activity plans.
• Advance innovations and use of technology in requisition, utilization, and monitoring of health commodities and supplies for the private and public health sector.
• Build the health teams capacity in inventory management 
• Work with other project staff to help identify resource and/or performance improvement needs to advance the goal of commodity security.
• Prepare and present quarterly technical reports and presentations as necessary.
• Participate in the County Commodity security committee meetings, County health services performance review meetings, technical and partner meetings as required.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team takes responsibility for their personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Fully-orientated thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree or higher in pharmacy, Nursing, Nutrition, or related field. 
• Minimum of eight years of experience with progressively increasing responsibility managing designing and implementing large and complex public health programs, ideally in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
• Experience leading a highly successful health systems strengthening program in Kenya or in a similar setting. 
• Demonstrated understanding and knowledge of decentralized nutrition and health delivery programs within Africa
• A minimum of three years of experience managing health commodities and supplies
• Proven experience building capacity of programs with local NGOs and government bodies in-country and working collaboratively with partners and/or key stakeholders. 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.  Fluency in English required. 
• Proven experience and skills in research and advocacy and influencing institutional, private and/or corporate donors and writing up high quality donor reports
• Experience of working with local/national governments and capacity building of systems, partners and staff
• Willingness to be based in Turkana County, with frequent travel to project offices and field sites within the Turkana and Samburu Counties. 
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international and matrix management environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required
• Demonstrates Save the Children’s core values of accountability, collaboration, integrity, ambition, and creativity.