UNDP Regional Supply Chain Management Specialist Jobs in South Africa

UNDP Regional Supply Chain Management Specialist Jobs in South Africa

The Position:

The Regional Supply Chain Management Specialist is located in the East and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO). You report directly to the Head of Country Support and Monitoring in Supply Chain Management Unit (SCMU) in Copenhagen with a dotted reporting line to the International Operations Manager in the Regional Office.

You will work closely with the colleagues in SCMU, Technical Division/ Commodity Security Branch, the UNFPA Supplies Partnership, the Humanitarian Office, and the Country Offices in the region.

You will apply an integrated, coordinated, and systems strengthening approach to support governments and other implementing partners, which is fundamental to UNFPA's overall strategy of building a ready, responsive, and resilient supply chain required for sustained and equitable access to and delivery of Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) commodities.

You Would be Responsible for:

You will support the Head of Country Support and Monitoring on regional efforts to:

Strategic Technical Oversight and Leadership

Advise Governments, Implementing Partners, and Country Offices across the functional areas of SCM covering forecasting and supply planning, regular and emergency procurement, national logistics management - including medical logistics, inventory accounting and control, warehousing, and good storage practices, LMA, and data collection and monitoring.

In close collaboration with the Humanitarian Office and SCMU Emergency & Logistics Team, advise Governments, Implementing Partners, and Country Offices on timely coordination of delivery of supplies for humanitarian response, including prepositioning.

Guide UNFPA Country Offices, including those in humanitarian settings, to implement SCM practices, logistics preparedness and contingency planning, including prepositioning where required, to enable continuity and scale up of lifesaving services, including in humanitarian crises, when needed.

Provide technical guidance on pharmaceutical management in accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO) policies (Good Storage Practices/Good Distribution Practices and the Model Quality Assurance System) as well as national policy frameworks and support the update of national guidelines.

Identify and analyse global and regional trends, threats, and risks in Reproductive Health Commodity Security (RHCS) that may have an impact on the SDGs, 2030 Agenda and UNFPA's work and guide countries in mitigating them.

Identify regional priority areas in RHCS and develop UNFPA strategic positions and related policies, frameworks, evidence-based arguments, and operational strategies, in collaboration and coordination with other branches, for overall system strengthening.

Lead UNFPA’s contribution to technical assistance efforts with regional partners such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other technical agencies and foundations and develop joint RHCS initiatives and approaches for UNFPA regional leadership in this area.

Provide strategic technical oversight and capacity building to Governments, Implementing Partners and Country Offices in consensus-driven national RH commodity forecasting with all local stakeholders, including government ministries, bilateral donors, major non-government organizations and other development partners having presence in-country, as well as partners using UNFPA’s Partner Supply Chain Services.

Ensure Country Offices in the Region produce technically sound and expeditious procurement plans supported by consensus-based quantification, national supply plans and distribution plans, and regularly monitor procurement plans and distribution plans to ensure they are up to date.

Provide technical guidance to and assure quality of supply chain related work of the RHCS country focal points in the Region.

Capacity Development

Provide technical guidance for countries to draft/adapt relevant national supply chain management training materials and manuals and use them for capacity development at various levels.

Develop a capacity building plan for the Region and coordinate structured training programmes to build capacity of staff in governments and implementing partner organizations responsible for supply chain management.

Implement relevant policies, guidelines, and procedures applicable to UNFPA donated commodities.

Coach and manage staff and consultants engaged in supply chain management activities at the Regional Office and country levels.

Contribute to substantive technical capacity development of supply chain and commodity management institutions in the Region,

including integration of RHCS into training curricula for various health professionals.

Knowledge Management

Lead UNFPA's regional analytic work on the subject area to ascertain lessons-learned from implementation and to refine methodologies for effective quantification and forecasting within a decentralized planning and budgeting context. Package knowledge products and promote UNFPA learning programmes with internal and external audiences.

Act as regional expert on all technical and implementation issues that relate to supply chain management and last mile assurance.

Contribute to promoting UNFPA's strategic role in the changing development agenda.

Establish and facilitate a Regional Supply Chain Community of Practice among staff and consultants engaged in supply chain management activities in the Region, to share best practices and overcome common bottlenecks affecting supply chain management, logistics, inventory control and LMA activities, leveraging and sharing knowledge with other Implementing Partner assurance activities, where relevant.

Technical Representation

Represent UNFPA in regional commodity security working groups and cross-organizational initiatives.

Represent UNFPA in meetings with regional development partners on issues and initiatives related to supply chain management coordination.

Actively participate in technical working group/steering committee meetings of the UNFPA Supplies Partnership and bring regional issues to the attention of UNFPA Supplies management.

Work with the Head, Country Support and Monitoring at SCMU in Copenhagen to coordinate collaboration with UN agencies, academia, research, training institutions and professional societies, and act as focal point for regional inter-agency working groups in the substantive area.

Carry out any other duties as may be required by UNFPA SCMU leadership

Qualifications and Experience:

Education:

Advanced university degree in Medical Science, Pharmacy, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Logistics or equivalent field is required. A first level university degree combined with a professional Supply Chain Management certification such as CIPS at Level 5 Advanced Diploma and/or CILT at any of the Level 5 qualification may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Knowledge and Experience:

A minimum of five years of relevant progressively responsible professional experience, including management experience of managing people and/or health projects at the international level, with ideally at least two years spent in low resource or humanitarian settings.

Minimum of three years of substantive experience in health commodity quantification, forecasting, supply management, warehousing, distribution, logistics information systems.

Demonstrated experience and successful track record in public health SCM strategy and network design creation and implementation.

Experience providing direct and successful country support on public health SCM in development and ideally complex humanitarian operating environments.

Experience in developing analytical tools for management reporting and performance metrics in supply chain.

Basic knowledge of the principles and operational aspects of integrated SRH health care in the global development and humanitarian community is an additional asset.

Demonstrated expertise in family planning method mix, contraceptive technology and humanitarian preparedness and prepositioning.

Professional written and spoken presentation skills, including for the development of reports, presentations, and the ability to synthesize complex technical documents for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Strong interpersonal skills and capability to develop and maintain broad diversified partnerships.

Familiarity with UN agencies procurement and supply chain management policies, and guidelines is an asset.

Languages:

Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; UNDP Regional Supply Chain Management Specialist Jobs in South Africa

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