Supply Chain

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentorship, and systems support for supply chain management, pharmaceutical services, and data use
• Serve as a technical bridge among MSD (Tanzania Mainland), CMS (Zanzibar), RHMTs, CHMTs, Logistics Management Services teams, health facilities, and regional implementing partners
• Provide day-to-day technical support on commodities management at regional, council, and health-facility levels
• Support bottom-up quantification and integration into national supply and procurement plans
• Monitor stock status, analyze inventory trends, and coordinate actions to prevent stock-outs, minimize expiries, and reduce overstocks
• Strengthen use of eLMIS, DHIS2, GoTHOMIS, and related tools for accurate, complete, and timely reporting
• Support R/CHMT platforms to address lifesaving-commodity supply-chain challenges using data evidence
• Provide on-the-job mentorship and demonstrations on stock management, ordering, reporting, and redistribution
• Guide MTCs and health-facility staff on rational medicine use, antimicrobial resistance, and patient safety
• Strengthen pharmacovigilance and follow up on adverse drug reaction reporting
• Collaborate with MSD, TMDA, CMS, ZFDA, and the Pharmacy Council to institutionalize pharmaceutical best practices
• Facilitate mentorship for health-facility pharmacists and clinicians through practical demonstrations and supportive supervision
• Support RHMTs, CHMTs, HMTs, MTCs, IMPACT Teams, logistics management services teams, and health facilities to improve supply-chain data collection, validation, analysis, reporting, and evidence-based decision-making
• Promote dashboards, scorecards, and performance reports for continuous improvement
• Ensure timely and complete data flow into national eLMIS, DHIS2, and GoTHOMIS systems
• Support root-cause analysis and corrective actions to strengthen data quality and system performance
• Implement capacity-building initiatives aligned with MOH/PORALG strategies
• Mentor supply-chain staff, pharmacists, laboratory technologists, and health workers on SCM, pharmaceutical management, and data use
• Mentor and supervise junior-level staff
• Report to the Regional Manager and Senior Technical Advisor–Supply Chain Specialist
• Travel to councils and health-facility project sites for technical assistance, supportive supervision, stakeholder engagement, and implementation support

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Senior Regional Technical Officer, Supply Chain

TZS 68,000,000 - TZS 90,000,000 per year

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentorship, and systems support for supply chain management, pharmaceutical services, and data use
• Serve as a technical bridge among MSD Tanzania Mainland, CMS Zanzibar, RHMTs, CHMTs, Logistics Management Services teams, health facilities, and regional implementing partners
• Provide technical support on commodities management at regional, council, and health-facility levels
• Support bottom-up quantification and integration into national supply and procurement plans
• Monitor stock status, analyze inventory trends, and coordinate actions to prevent stock-outs, minimize expiries, and reduce overstocks
• Strengthen use of eLMIS, DHIS2, GoTHOMIS, and related systems for accurate and timely reporting
• Support R/CHMT platforms to identify and address lifesaving-commodities supply-chain challenges using evidence
• Mentor staff on stock management, ordering, reporting, redistribution, pharmaceutical management, and data use
• Guide MTCs and health-facility staff on rational medicine use, antimicrobial resistance, and patient safety
• Strengthen pharmacovigilance and follow up on adverse drug reaction reporting
• Collaborate with MSD, TMDA, CMS, ZFDA, and the Pharmacy Council to institutionalize pharmaceutical best practices
• Facilitate mentorship for health-facility pharmacists and clinicians through demonstrations and supportive supervision
• Support RHMTs, CHMTs, HMTs, MTCs, IMPACT Teams, logistics management teams, and health facilities to improve supply-chain data quality and use
• Promote dashboards, scorecards, and performance reports for continuous improvement
• Ensure timely and complete data flow into eLMIS, DHIS2, and GoTHOMIS
• Support root-cause analysis and corrective actions for data quality and system performance
• Implement capacity-building initiatives aligned with MOH/PORALG strategies
• Mentor supply-chain staff, pharmacists, laboratory technologists, and health workers
• Mentor and supervise junior-level staff
• Report to the Regional Manager and Senior Technical Advisor—Supply Chain Specialist
• Travel domestically to councils and health-facility project sites for technical assistance, supportive supervision, stakeholder engagement, and implementation support