Job Vacancy For Teaching Hospital Logistics Support Officer

TITLE: Teaching Hospital Logistics Support Officer





PROJECT: Ministry of Health/Global Fund Logistics Support Project





JOB DESCRIPTION





Teaching Hospital Logistics Support officers will primarily provide logistics and supply chain management support to the Teaching Hospital Medical Stores (THMS) and Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART) Clinics at the Sunyani Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Tamale Teaching Hospital and Ho Teaching Hospital to ensure product availability and accountability for effective service delivery; and to support visibility into public health commodity logistics data for decision-making.





The Teaching Hospital Logistics Support Officer will specifically support their respective Directors of Pharmacy, the Managers of the Teaching Hospital Medical Stores (THMS) and the ART Clinics on inventory management of program commodities, gathering and analysis of logistics data to inform supply chain decisions, bi-monthly central level distribution and implementation of national level supply chain reforms including the LMIS. The officer will also be required to support client medication refill and adherence counselling. He/She is also expected to prepare, share and report on program commodity status situation to relevant stakeholders.





TERMS OF REFERENCE





Teaching Hospital Logistics Support for GhiLMIS Related Activities.





Duties and Responsibilities:





• Support THMS/ART Clinic to conduct monthly physical counts for program commodities.


• Support THMS to prepare and submit accurate and timely inventory and stock status reports, via GhiLMIS, with key recommendations to Pharmacy Management and central offices for timely decision-making and conduct follow-up with central level authorities.


• Update and report on commodity consumption data and maintain health commodity logistics database.


• Contribute to THMS requisition process for receiving commodities from central level as part of the central level bi-monthly distributions and support input of product receipt and consumption data on GhiLMIS.


• Provide general technical logistics management support to THMS to prepare and implement action plans to address identified supply chain management issues.


• Participate in monitoring implementation of specific inventions by MOH/GHS Health Programs, GHSC-PSM and other IPs including activities aimed at improving logistics management practices in the facility.


• Any other duties assigned by the Supervisor





Qualification Required & Experience





• Bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical science, health or supply chain or business-related discipline.


• A minimum of 5 years’ professional experience in supply chain management including experience with order management, inventory management, warehousing/storage and product distribution.


• Data analysis, reporting and presentation skills.


• Good understanding of Ghana’s Public Health Value Chain.


• Excellent communications skills with ability to lead meetings.


• Resourcefulness and a desire to help others.


• Excellent diplomatic, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.


• Ability to work independently or in a team setting is necessary.


• Must be able to learn and support new and fast changing technologies.


• Ability to work under pressure.


• Must have a good command of the English language





Location:





• Cape Coast Teaching Hospital


• Tamale Teaching Hospital


• Ho Teaching Hospital


• Sunyani Teaching Hospital





Supervision





The employee will report directly to the Project Coordinator or his designee.





Location: Cape Coast. Tamale. Sunyani & Ho