Job opportunity: Technical specialist at UNFPA

• Contribute to enhancing national capacity to develop and maintain reproductive health services and commodity systems. These tasks will involve design and facilitation of formal training and conducting informal, on-the-job training.
• Identify IP’s strengths and weaknesses (in the areas of Supply Chain Map and required risk mitigation actions, including capacity-building efforts
• Identify, develop and/or adapt training materials and manuals in the substantive area and ensure their availability for capacity development, and support their implementation.
• Lead and build capacity of stakeholders in commodity forecasting, inventory control systems, storage and distribution of RH commodities including contraceptives

C. Evidence and knowledge development and dissemination

• Make significant contributions to analytic works aiming to collect and review lessons learned from implementation and to refine methodologies for effective RHCS within a decentralized planning and budgeting context.
• Remain knowledgeable and up to date on all technical and implementation issues that relate to RHCS as well as other components of Health systems development.
• Support and build the capacity of the MOH experts in the collection, reporting, analysis, and use of logistics data for decision-making and for M&E (logistics indicators).

Duration and working schedule:

Initial two (2) months from 15 August to 15 October 2022

Place where services are to be delivered:

Yaoundé, Cameroon

Delivery dates and how work will be delivered:

• Validation of the COMPACT of commitment: August (wk4)
• MOU between DSF, DPML et DSF, UNFPA, and CENAME: September (wk2)
• Pricing circular with accountability document: September (wk2)
• SCM Post training supervision held: September (wk4)
• National Procurement Plan (further to the Quantification): October (wk1)
• Logistics Technical Working Group (LTWG): October (wk1)
• Monthly progress reports submission (in hard and soft copy): one (1) in September (wk2) and one (1) in October (wk2)
• Progress monitoring meeting minutes: Two reports in September (one in wk2 and one in wk4) and one (1) report in October (wk2)
• Technical report and handover note submission (end of the consultancy): October (wk2)

Monitoring and progress control, including reporting requirements, periodicity format and deadline:

• Monthly Progress Report
• Progress monitoring meeting every two weeks

Supervisory arrangements: Report to the Deputy Representative

Expected travel: Travel in provinces (areas of intervention of UNFPA)

Required expertise, qualifications, and competencies, including language requirements:

Education:

• Master’s degree in public health, medicine, social sciences, pharmacy, or other related fields. Courses certificates in logistics, essential drugs, health system strengthening, and financing would be an asset.

Knowledge and Experience:

• 5 years’ experience in increasing responsibilities at the national level in SRH ideally, in logistics systems, public sector pharmaceutical supplies management of which 3 years’ experience should be in developing countries with direct experience relating to health and
• logistics systems and management of family planning programmes.
• Knowledge of public sector pharmaceutical program management at national level, especially in policy & management, Selection, Access, Quality Assurance and Rational Drug Use is an asset.
• Extensive knowledge of supply management: forecasting, warehousing, distribution,
• transportation, logistics information systems.
• Health sector-specific experience, including Experience with Public Health systems in developing countries, Health Commodity Supply Market, Logistics, and inventory
• management related to pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, based on sound Supply Chain Management countries principles
• General knowledge of the principles and operational aspects of integrated reproductive healthcare.
• Familiarity with UN development programmes and working procedures, especially UNFPA policies and programming procedures, would be an asset.Proven experience in managing complex programs and large-scale projects would be an asset.
• Computer Literacy: Proficiency in the use of standard MS Office packages and the Internet.

Languages:

• Excellent written and oral communications skills. Fluency in French and English is required.

Services to be provided by UNFPA

• Office space, Local mobile phone sim card, and Access to the Internet.

Application files

Applications (in French or English) must bear the title of the position and be sent by email to [email protected] no later than 31 July 2022. They must be complete and contain a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, P11 form of the United Nations, copies of diplomas and certificates. The files must be sent as a single attachment (PDF format only)

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