Provincial field Pharmacist( Afghan National Only)

Job Description

· 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;

Technical Support and Capacity Building:

· 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.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

- Diploma in pharmacy along with 2-4 years’ work experience

· 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 conditions and ability to work under difficult, high pressure situations.

- Previous work with IRC is an advantage - English language