Global Pharmacy Advisor - Maternity Cover at Save the Children
Save the Children
- Kenya
- Contract
- Full-time
- Technical inputs to develop/strengthen relevant policies, procedures and guidelines
- Technical leadership on pharmaceutical quality management and support programs
- Technical support to build capacity of SCI country, regional and global staff
- Contribute to strengthen strategic relationships and partnerships
- Contribute to strategic communications and technical publications
- Degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent qualification), and current registration with the relevant national professional body.
- Extensive experience of managing pharmacy services (primary and/or secondary healthcare) and strengthening pharmaceutical systems, ideally in low resource settings.
- Extensive multi-country experience of working in the INGO sector, within complex/large scale country programmes and/or in emergency response/humanitarian settings.
- Experience and understanding of the end-to-end pharmaceutical management cycle (sourcing, storage and transport, use, disposal).
- Proficient in designing and conducting audits and field assessments, critically appraising and writing reports, identify gaps and implement recommendations.
- Experience of developing policies, and preparing/reviewing technical documents.
- Experience of pharmacovigilance, incident reporting and risk management.
- Experience of providing remote support, capacity building and delivering trainings.
- Cultural awareness and ability to work effectively and collaboratively across diverse teams, functions, offices and organizations.
- Strong planning, organization, problem-solving and influencing skills.
- Excellent written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills in English.
- Right to work in the UK (or country of residence).
- Additional specialist / public health qualification.
- Working proficiency in a second language, preferably French, Spanish or Arabic
- Experience in assuring Good Distribution Practice for pharmaceutical products.
- Understanding of Regulatory Systems of the global pharmaceutical market, pharmaceutical innovation, financing and access to medicines issues.
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