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Relevant Experience: Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D)  or Bachelor of Pharmacy (atleast 4 years professional education)

Valid registration with the Pharmacy Council of Pakistan .  Minimum 04 years of overall experience and 02 years in relevant field. 

Experience within a NGO is desirable

Job Description: 

Mission 1: Supporting the Nut and Health and Logistics departments in managing medical procurement

 The Pharmacist is in charge of:

• Supporting the Logistics and Nut/Health departments in medical supplies procurement
• Supporting the Nut/Health HOD in assessing needs & requirements and preparing purchase lines for each item
• Supporting the Nut/Health HoD in making decisions on the choice of molecular substitutions as part of the procurement process.
• Supporting coordination in defining procurement frequency
• Supporting Log and Health Dept in analysis of emerging needs
• Ensure coordination with DRAP and relevant authorities as needed
• Supporting the Log HoD and the Nut/Health  HoD in evaluating the local market and any possible emergency procurement

• Collecting information about suppliers
• Collecting information for any possible external audit of the local market
• Facilitating sourcing activities during procurement (selection of sources, etc.)

 Mission 2: Improving quality in the management and use of medical products

 The Pharmacist is in charge of:

• Ensuring/analysing data collection (stock, consumption) from the bases and from the Dispensation Sites, and inputting the data into the SFU Med or other Excel file.
• Analysing this data in order to optimise the management of drugs/medicines and medical equipment (needs assessment, cold chain, expiry dates, stock surplus/shortage, etc.)
• Ensuring the regular and appropriate use of management documents (stock sheets, delivery notes, computer tools, etc.)
• Working closely with the Nut and Health department to verify stock and consumption status against programme data (primary healthcare database) and assess the appropriateness of prescriptions.
• Being able to provide, in real time, all reliable stock data, consumption, use of drugs/medicines and health products for each project.
• Backing up all computer data at least once a month.

 Mission 3: Maintaining the physical integrity of the Central Pharmacy

 The Pharmacist is in charge of:

• Compliance with Good Storage Practices for medical products at ACF and Implementing partner level
• Spatial organisation of the Pharmacy stocks
• Physical integrity of the premises: security-protected entrances, no water damage, no cracks in the roof or walls, no rodents, etc.
• Hygiene of the premises: regular cleaning of floors and shelves, refrigerator maintenance, no food or sugary drinks, etc. 
• Twice-daily monitoring of temperature and humidity during working days through relevant staff
• Ensuring that everything possible is done to combat factors leading to the damage of medical products
• Classification of products according to the rules recommended by AAH
• Ensuring compliance with special storage conditions required for certain specific products (cold chain, products considered to be narcotics)

Mission 4: Supporting the Logistics department in the technical supervision of the partner Pharmacy/Pharmacies

The Pharmacist is in charge of:

• The technical supervision of storage warehouses at partner level in order to analyse the Pharmacy Officer’s compliance with Good Storage Practices
• Providing recommendations
• Monitoring the compliance of these recommendations
• Ensuring that the AAH's procedures and tools used by the partner programme and logistics teams are properly understood and applied.
• Providing technical support through necessary training on stock management

 Mission 5: Improving technical capacity at programme level

 The Pharmacist is in charge of:

• Providing technical support through training on stock management, rational use of medical products, critical analysis of consumption data
• Supporting the team of dispensors in pharmacy supervision

 Mission 6: Supporting the Nut/Health HoD in proposal writing and donor reporting

 The Pharmacist is in charge of:

• Providing technical support to the Nut/Health HoD in defining, quantifying and evaluating medical product needs in the framework of proposed donor projects
• Contributing to the preparation of donor reports specifically with respect to information relating to drugs/medicines on the mission.

Mission 7: Proactively support ACFs commitments to gender equality and child protection sensitivity

The Pharmacist is responsible for:

• Read and ensure a full understanding and promotion of ACFs Gender Minimum Standards & Child Protection Policies
• Implement all work related activities with a gender, inclusion and child protection lens, taking into account the different needs, concerns and ideas of our staff and beneficiaries
• Ensure and encourage the incorporation of gender equity principles in all policies and activities
• Help build an inclusive office environment where people do not feel disadvantaged or judged according to their gender or limited due to manageable disability.

Any other relevant tasks as assigned by the management.

This is a non-contractual document and it may evolve according to the needs of the mission

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