ABH Partners Plc is a leading consultancy and human resources sourcing firm in Ethiopia with about 15 years of experience in supporting the implementation of development programs and projects. ABH exists to fuel synergistic societal growth by harnessing local knowledge and international standard. Dedicated to the betterment of societal development, technical assistance, and knowledge management, ABH has gained credibility and industry experience in the development sector in general.
ABH partners would like to invite applicants who meet the below requirements to apply for the position of Supply Chain Officer- Pipeline monitoring
Title: Supply Chain Officer- Pipeline monitoring
Number of Posts:1(One)
Duty Station: EPSS head office, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Duration:12 months
Reporting to: Technical – EPSS Contract management directorate.
Administrative -UNICEF PSS Logistics Lead. This is a local position; it is open to Ethiopian Nationals only.
Background
The Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Supply Service/EPSS/, formerly known as ‘Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Supply Agency/EPSA\’ is the only public health commodities procurement and distribution organization mandated to procure and distribute regular and health program supplies to the society.
Central to addressing newborn and child mortality, outlined in the health sector transformation plan of the country/HSTP -II/, the public organization receives and distributes vaccines, donations, and other program commodities to the community in need on a timely manner. It manages to receive of vaccines and other commodities from the port of destination, transports, stores, and distributes to end users as per the standard procedure.
UNICEF and EPSS have been intensively cooperating in a number of areas of common interest. As part of this strategic partnership, UNICEF and EPSS have been working collaboratively in the areas of cold supply chain management and health supply chain system strengthening specifically in the warehouse operation improvement, emergency supply chain management and other related aspects.
Like wise to vaccines supply chain integration into EPSS’s supply chain years before, UNICEF Ethiopia Country Office along with EPSS, FMOH, and relevant partners decided to move forward with implementation of the integration of all UNICEF-managed child health commodities into the government supply chain system.
As part of this initiative, and following a thorough discussion with EPSS and development partners,UNICEF Ethiopia decided to integrate all child health commodities(emergency and non emergency)into EPSS’s supply chain.
In the proposed approach, UNICEF-procured commodities will instead be cleared by EPSS, stored centrally by EPSS, distributed down to EPSS hubs, and then distributed further downstream by EPSS, just as all other health commodities that flow through the Ethiopian Government supply chain system. This will not only sustainability strengthen EPSS’s capacity, but also allow it to greatly increase its scale of delivery.
In order to achieve this mission of integrating UNICEF-procurred commodities into EPSS’s supply chain, building the capacity of EPSS in all the supply chain aspects is of paramount importance so that the product integration happens as per the plan of 2021-2023. With this regard, hiring a senior technical advisor who supports in pipeline monitoring and warehouse utilization for commodities procurred by UNICEF and delivered to EPSS warehouses has been one of the recommendations of the assessment done by UNICEF team as part of improving the pipeline monitory and reporting of EPSS.
The technical advisor will use the established performance monitoring system of EPSS as one of the monitory tools and supports leveraging the existing pipeline monitory system so that the operatioins advaces to an improved status. The technical advisor will work towards a performance targets for successful transfer of knowledge that best contributes to improved capacity in EPSS in the area.
Purpose
Scope
The Supply Chain Officer -technical advisor is limited to the support on the pipeline monitory and respective EPSS warehouses space availability analysis for Commodities procured by UNICEF and delivered to EPSS.
Objectives
Key competencies, Technical Background and Experience Required
The Supply Chain Officer - technical advisor should have appropriate professional experience in the area of supply chain operations specifically in the areas of pipeline monitoring including the management of vaccines, drugs, medicine and MCH products. The technical advisor should have at least the following range of skills and experiences:
a. Technical Competencies
b. Education
c. Experience
Minimum of seven years experience on Supply chain management, inventory management and logistics information system previous experience managing similar portfolio, managing in pipeline monitoring of commodities on a large scale,
d. Expected Deliverables
Reporting
The Technical Advisor will work under the direct supervision of the EPSS Procurement/contract management directorate director
Professional Competencies
Core values
- Commitment
- Diversity and inclusion
- Integrity
Core competencies
- Communication (II)
- Working with people(II)
- Drive for results (II)
Functional Competencies
- Formulating strategies/concepts (II)
-Analyzing (II)
- Relating and networking (II)
- Deciding and initiating action (II)
- Apply technical expertise (II)