Senior Technical Associate, Pharmacy and Supply Chain at Heartland Alliance

Job Summary

The Senior Technical Associate, Pharmcy and Supply Chain will support the Senior Technical Associate, Clinical Quality Assurance to implement high quality care and support activities with primary focus on  community based prevention, care and treatment activities through improving activities across the continuum of care – case finding for adults and paediatrics, genealogy testing scaling up cervical cancer screening activities as part of prevention services, PrEP, PMTCT, retention in care, viral load sample collection and suppression, differentiated models of care at the community, Support safe and ethical models of care both at the facility and community that would efficiently achieve results thereby maintaining program fidelity.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure all newly identified clients receive full counselling on drug medications side effects, adverse drug reactions etc.
• Ensure that before dispensing medications, all client's fears are allayed.
• Ensure all pediatric clients are weighed before drug dispensing and care givers literacy education is given.
• Ensure chronic care screening checklist is attached to clients’ records at the community before medications are dispensed.
• Ensure the 28 days adherence calendar is followed strictly for all newly identified clients linked to care.
• Support the roll out of pharmacovigilance services.
• Draw up systems for reporting of ADRs for both the community and facility structures.
• Ensure all clients are placed on optimal regimen.
• Support DSD models at all levels.
• Ensure availability of ARVs and support generation of CRIFFF report.
• Support /initiate community DSD models review meeting with stakeholders.
• Ensure proper documentations across all source documents and will support SI team during data validation.
• Perform other assigned responsibilities as occasion demands by Supervisor.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or competency required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy with 2 to 3 years relevant experience in clinical care with a sound understanding of HIV/AIDs programmatic implementation in resource constraint settings.
• Demonstrated skills to use data for program refinement and implement targeted interventions with highest degree of efficiency and impact.
• Familiarity with Nigerian public sector health system, NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of Nigerian clinical setting, including government and non-government settings.
• Proven ability in supervising staff.

Other Competencies:

• Time Management – Ability to prioritize tasks, manage time and complete projects in a fast-paced, changing environment with minimal supervision.
• Quality Management - Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
• Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; varies writing style to meet needs; presents numerical data effectively.
• Adaptability - adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
• Cultural Sensitivity – Respects cultural environment in which person is working and does not act in a manner that is outwardly offensive to the local community.
• Non-discriminatory- Does not discriminate persons based on sexual orientation or gender identity, age, preferred jobs, or behavioural habits.

Language Skills:

• Excellent oral and written English communication skills.
• Knowledge of Local Language preferred.
• Demonstrated competency in public speaking.

Computer Skills:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Outlook/Exchange, Windows operating systems, Power Point.
• Other software routinely used by Heartland Alliance.