The Regional Supply Chain Advisor ("the Advisor") leads and coordinates Management Sciences for Health (MSH) technical assistance to strengthen health commodity supply chain systems in the following regions in Cameroon: Adamawa, Central, East, Far North, North, Littoral, Northwest, South, Southwest, and West, with an initial focus on HIV/AIDS and malaria commodities. Reporting to the Technical Director, the Advisor works with regional and district authorities, health facilities, regional warehouses, and implementing partners to improve commodity availability, inventory management, data visibility and use, warehousing, distribution, and last-mile delivery.
The Advisor provides technical leadership for regional supply chain assessments and improvement initiatives; supports forecasting, quantification, order validation, stock-status monitoring, data-quality assessment, and supportive supervision; and coordinates practical corrective actions with government counterparts. The position also strengthens regional coordination mechanisms, builds counterpart capacity, and contributes to project performance monitoring, reporting, learning, and documentation of results.
One (01) Advisor will be hired in each of the follow regions: Adamawa, Central, East, Far North, North, Littoral, Northwest, South, Southwest, and West). Candidates with familiarity with the region for which they are applying, and its public health supply chain context, preferred.
Candidates must indicate in their application their preferred region(s) for work.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Regional Supply Chain Technical Leadership and Coordination (90%)
- Lead and coordinate MSH technical assistance to strengthen health commodity supply chain systems in the selected Region (duty station/work location), in close collaboration with regional and district public health authorities, regional funds for health promotion, health facilities, and implementing partners. Additional Responsibilities (10%) QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION Required: Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, medicine, public health, supply chain management, logistics, pharmaceutical systems, or a related field. Preferred: Master’s degree or advanced professional training in health supply chain management, pharmaceutical management, logistics, or health systems strengthening. REQUIRED MINIMUM EXPERIENCE
- Support regional authorities to collect and review health facility orders and organize routine order-validation meetings, ensuring that decisions are documented and followed through.
- Support preparation, validation, and use of inventory, stock-status, consumption, distribution, and stock-reconciliation reports for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other priority health commodities supported by the project.
- Work with relevant technical working groups and project technical staff to monitor regional forecasting and quantification assumptions and identify emerging supply risks.
- Support the revitalization and effective functioning of regional supply chain coordination mechanisms, including planning meetings, action tracking, and engagement of relevant stakeholders.
- Plan and coordinate regional supply chain assessments and data-quality assessments; analyze findings and work with counterparts to develop and monitor practical improvement actions.
- Provide technical assistance to optimize warehouse capacity and strengthen inventory management systems, good storage practices, stock control, expiry management, and accountability for commodities.
- Support the design and implementation of commodity distribution and last-mile delivery strategies, including appropriate safety-stock levels, delivery-route optimization, stock redistribution, and collaborative distribution arrangements.
- Strengthen the quality, completeness, timeliness, visibility, and use of logistics data, and promote routine use of approved logistics management information systems and reporting tools for decision-making.
- Coordinate supportive supervision, mentorship, and on-the-job coaching for regional, district, warehouse, and health facility staff to improve consistent implementation of supply chain standards and procedures.
- Plan and facilitate training workshops and other capacity-strengthening activities in collaboration with project technical advisors and government counterparts; follow up on application of learning in the workplace.
- Support appropriate public-private collaboration and other locally relevant approaches that improve commodity availability and supply chain performance at regional level.
- Participate in project performance reviews; support collection and validation of data for project indicators; and monitor progress against regional workplans, targets, and agreed corrective actions.
- Prepare clear technical reports and contribute to project reports, technical documents, presentations, learning products, abstracts, and documentation of results, good practices, and lessons learned.
- Coordinate closely with the Technical Director, central-level supply chain advisors, regional project staff, and operations teams to ensure that regional activities are aligned with approved project plans, budgets, donor requirements, and MSH standards.
- Prepare routine activity updates, field visit and supervision reports, meeting documentation, and other reports requested by the Technical Director.
- Represent MSH in relevant regional technical and coordination meetings when authorized and follow up on agreed actions with responsible stakeholders.
- Provide technical guidance and support to regional supply chain staff and consultants, as assigned, and promote consistent quality standards across regional activities.
- Comply with MSH policies, donor requirements, safeguarding standards, ethical standards, and mandatory training requirements.
- Perform other duties consistent with the position as assigned by the Technical Director.
- Bachelor’s degree with four to six years of relevant professional experience; master’s degree with two to four years of relevant experience; or doctoral degree with one to two years of relevant experience in health commodity supply chain management, pharmaceutical management, logistics, or implementation of public health programs. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance and working with regional, district, or facility-level supply chain stakeholders. Experience with HIV/AIDS and malaria commodity programs, last-mile distribution, supportive supervision, and data-quality assessment is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of Cameroon’s public health system and health commodity supply chain functions at regional, district, and health facility levels.
