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Job Overview

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Pharmacy Supervisor

Based in ZUWARA – LIBYA

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an International Humanitarian Organization providing medical aid to populations in distress, victims of natural and man-made disasters, and victims of armed conflict, regardless of race, religion, and political belief. For more information, visit our Arabic website, http://www.msf-me.org.

Main purpose:

Ensuring general functioning of the pharmacy and supervising pharmacy supply chain processes in accordance with MSF standards, protocols and procedures, in order to ensure its efficiency and operating availability.

Responsibilities:

Ensuring storage, stock management and supply processes, as well as hygiene and security procedures, tools, and protocols (controlling pests and rodents), implementing appropriate quality controls and records, in order to ensure good storage conditions (temperatures, humidity and light exposure) and availability of drugs and medical material, according to MSF protocols, national regulations and in cooperation with the logistics department.
Coordinating the delivery, reception and recording of international and local orders, in close coordination with the logistics department, updating stock files and informing line managers on their status (shortfalls, over-stocking, expiry dates), in order to permanently ensure security stock levels and ensure efficient management of stock.
Supervising orders of medical and drug material in order to ensure an efficient and appropriate consumption pattern under budget constraints.
Supervising the supply of drugs to patients, according to medical prescriptions, informing them on consumption patterns and keeping conditions in order to ensure their therapeutic progression
Ensuring efficient supply to other pharmacies managed/supported by MSF according to orders and stocks, and using cold chain when needed. Monitoring and analysing orders of depending pharmacies in order to avoid ruptures of stock or having expired drugs.
Supervising, with the HR department, the associated processes (sizing, staff shifts, recruitment, training, performance evaluation, development and internal/external communication) of the pharmaceutical team and the nursing staff, in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required and to improve their dispensing capabilities.
Recording all items received and issued in computer (Isystock) and reporting on drug consumptions and medical equipment dispensed according to protocols, informing on unusual patterns as well as forecasting future needs, in order to rationalise the budget and to ensure availability.
Assisting in training of nursing staff regarding dispensing of drugs and their side effects

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS REQUIREMENTS

Languages : Arabic and English (oral & written) are mandatory as you will perform your daily work in English.

Education : Essential degree of pharmacy management or nursing related studies or medical profile.

Experience : Professional experience minimum 3 years.

Required 1-year certified work experience in pharmacy management.

Other : Legal capacity to work in Libya

Competencies

· Willing to work in the humanitarian field: offering assistance to population in distress

· Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)

· Flexibility : capacity to adjust to changes in the job profile/location due to instability of context

· Teamwork : ability to work with multidisciplinary team but in autonomy most of the time

· Willing to deal with numbers and administrative tasks on a daily basis, very rigorous and methodical

JOB ADVANTAGES:

Medical health policy + Regular salary and regular working hours + Paid leaves policy

WORK LOCATION:

ZUWARA with some travels in the other locations of the project, the candidate has to be based in ZUWARA.

WORKING HOURS:

Full-time job / 48 hours per week / Fixed-term contract 3 months. Beginning of contract October 2021

Note:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Each person interested in this position must send his CV, cover letter, diplomas, and work certificates by e-mail titled “ZUWARA Pharma ” : msff-nafusa-recruitment@paris.msf.org