Save the Children,Medical Logistician Officer Jobs in Rwanda

h partners, to inspire
breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and
lasting change in their lives. Save the Children works in thirteen districts in
Rwanda with a current staff complement of approximately 134 staff.

• Ensure
  quality standards of drug management are met, which will include
  warehousing, cold chain management, stock rotation and control, pipeline
  management, consumption monitoring and ordering.
• Responsible
  for the maintenance of medical equipment
• Ensure
  safe waste management of drug and medical supplies
• Ensure
  accurate reporting of drug movement stocks and consumption
• Work
  with the logistics and medical team overseeing the reverse logistics of
  drugs and medical supplies and equipment. To review the National List of
  Registered Medicines and coordinate with the National Ministry of Health
  regarding the donation of unused medicines.
• To
  ensure that GIKs are legal, responsible, appropriate and in line with Save
  the Children policy

• Develop
  drug management guidelines, consumption tools and templates for ordering
  and reverse logistics and the SOP for medical logistics.
• Identify
  core competencies for medical logistics and work with HR to be involved in
  the recruitment and orientation of logistics team and to identify relevant
  training for logistical team to ensure opportunities for multi-tasking
  across the logistics team
• Work
  with Logistics team to ensure Medical supplies and equipment are updated
  on  Total Inventory Management System (TIMS) regularly.
• Document
  lessons learned and disseminate as appropriate

• Holds
  self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently,
  achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds
  the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities –
  giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing
  the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate
  consequences when results are not achieved
• Creates
  a managerial environment to lead, enable and maintain our culture of
  child safeguarding

• Sets
  ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes
  responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their
  team to do the same
• Widely
  shares personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future
  orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale

• Approachable,
  good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective
  relationships with colleagues, members and external partners and
  supporters
• Values
  diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work
  cross-culturally.

• Develops
  and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Cuts
  away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach

• Honest,
  encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
• Displays
  consistent excellent judgement
• Acts
  in the best interests of children

• Progressive
  experience with international NGOs in humanitarian medical logistics.
• Previous
  experience of supporting first phase self- sufficient primary health care
  programmes.
• Good
  knowledge of general logistics and willingness to multitask.
• Strong
  communicator and team member.
• Fluent
  written and spoken English.
• Ability
  to work in and maintain a positive team dynamic in hard to reach environments
• Demonstrated
  ability to work in a multi-cultural environment, and establish harmonious
  and effective working relationships both within and outside the
  organization
• Proficiency
  in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

• Previous
  experience of disease outbreak response.
• Qualified
  in IATA Dangerous Goods
• Proficiency
  in French.
• Previous
  experience of training and working with national teams on emergency
  preparedness.

• This
  extends not only to children with whom SCI and its partners work directly,
  but also includes children whom staff are responsible for.  SCI
  believes that the situation of children must be improved through the
  promotion of their rights supported and demonstrated by all members of
  staff. Save the Children International’s Code of Conduct sets out the
  standards which all staff members must adhere to.