Pharmacy Officer (National Only)

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Job Description

General Duties

- Provide support supervision to the pharmacy technicians and dispensers at field sites to ensure proper management and reporting of medical drugs and supplies, and ensure a quality-assurance system is incorporated into the health facilities and medical stores

Specific Duties:

- Oversee the medical drugs and supplies quantification within their province and ensures that all procured items are in the Afghanistan Essential Drug List. S/he will ensure drug consumption data is collected at health facilities, aggregated, analyzed, and used for forecasting needs of the program, and fed upwards to the country Pharmacist. - Monitors the availability of medical products to avoid stock-outs and financial losses generated by expired items; Collaborates with the provincial health managers to define stock security levels in IRC’s directly or partner implemented facilities. - In close collaboration with the Warehouse officers, develops stock levels alert (based on an average monthly consumption AMC and morbidity data); gathers stock indicators, analyze them, and discuss with to the Country Pharmacist to avoid stock-outs and the financial losses generated by expired items. - Participates in implementing the pharmaceutical supply chain standard operating procedures. - Applies Good Distribution Practices (GDPs) for pharmaceutical products at storage level, and Good Dispensing Practices in end user units. These include:

- Documentation verification: - - Conduct systematic checks of all medical goods purchased locally and for direct shipments, and control their details correspond to the requested specifications and the received documentation (Certificate of Analyses) - Check conformity of the received goods with the PO (Purchase Order) and the PL (Packing List) (strength, origin, manufacturer, batch number) - Transportation and storage: - Ensure transportation of medical goods (including any dangerous goods and cold chain) is done in an appropriate manner and following national regulations. - Conduct GDP self-assessment for the provincial warehouses with the assistance of GSC Pharma QA Manager, and follows up on Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA) implementation - Handle cold chain products according to the recommendations of the manufacturer - Ensure that cold chain equipment is working properly, and that daily temperature monitoring of cold chain items is in place - Report to Country Pharmacist any cold chain breach (fills the cold chain breech report), who will advise on releasing the products - Ensure controlled drugs are managed according to national regulation - Ensure stock rotation according to FIFO (First in First Out) and FEFO (First Expiry First Out) - Support in conducting monthly and annual physical stock counts and provide reports upwards to the Country Pharmacist. - Disposal and returns: - Ensure disposal of health care products is done according with national regulations/or IRC Waste Disposal SOP, and that a disposal file is maintained - Organize return or exchange of rejected goods with the SCC - Supervise the store release, distribution, and transfer of all stock to the required field site locations.

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Qualifications

- Education: Bachelor in Pharmacy or relevant

- Years of Experience: 2 to 3 years’ work experience - Skills: Good mathematical skills - Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with the local health representatives. - Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate medical counseling. - Excellent communication skills, good spoken and writing of concise reports in English. - Must be a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, compassion, and diplomacy. - Ability to be innovative, flexible, adaptive, and willingness to work out of hours, sometimes throughout the night. - Ability to live in challenging co

- Technical Competency:

- Communication and reporting skills - Fluency in Pashto, Dari and English - Computer skills (including MS Word, Excel, Access, and internet) an advantage - Ability to work closely, professionally, and constructively with all others regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, race, tribe, or cultural background