About Malaria Consortium
Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organizations specializing in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and underprivileged populations in Africa and Asia. Increasingly, Malaria Consortium’s interventions in malaria are effectively being integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact, thereby expanding the remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organizations, to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. The organization works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of national health systems, which helps to relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity. And since the COVID 19 pandemic, Malaria Consortium has increasingly been involved in health resilience activities.
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Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Supply Chain Officer to join our team in Kogi State, Nigeria.
The Supply Chain Officer will provide technical support on the supply chain management of malaria commodities at the project office in the State, Nigeria.
The Supply Chain Officer will be actively responsible for maintaining an effective and efficient logistic management and inventory control of SMC drugs at the state level. S/he will be work directly within the State Logistic Management Coordinating Unit and the Malaria Consortium office at the assigned state.
The Supply Chain Officer will be a member of the programme implementation team and report to Country Commodity Manager in delivering programme work plan.
Supply Chain Management (70%):
- Ensuring that the supply chain activities meet the needs of the programmes in a timely manner and does so in accordance with donor requirements, MC policies and procedures.
- Carry out monthly stock status assessment of all SMC commodities at the state central medical store and report on the assessment to higher levels flagging issues needing action
- Coordinating SMC microplanning during which targets which form the basis for SMC drug quantification are determined
- Provide technical support to strengthen the procurement and supply chain management of malaria commodities at the assigned state
- Contribute to state level quantification of commodities as well as development of distribution plans using credible and verifiable data sources
- Support and assist in the management of SMC commodities at the assigned State Central Medical Stores (SCMS) and health facilities.
- Ensure the availability and distribution of pharmaco-vigilance forms during each implementation cycle.
- Provide guidance on reporting ADR using the pharmaco-vigilance forms to the state teams
- Carrying out post-distribution gap analysis for all SMC commodities at the assigned state
- Submit timely and accurate logistic report at the end of every SMC cycle and review all LMIS reports for SMC commodities at the assigned state.
- Coordinate Reverse logistics for SMC drugs from health facilities to the state central medical store
- Monitor the delivery of SMC commodities and escalate any discrepancies in the quantity of commodities delivered and any quality issues. This will be done at all the levels of the distribution of SMC commodities (SCMS, Health Facilities and Communities)
- Working with the state Logistic Management Coordination Unit on the management of SMC commodities and also serves as a link between Malaria Consortium and the state Logistic Management Coordinating Unit
- Provide support for the Monitoring and Evaluation team and reconcile logistic data with M&E data
- Maintaining and regularly updating a database of SMC malaria commodity logistics data
- Performs other duties as directed by the State Project Manager.
Coordination/Feedback (30%):
- Ensure smooth relationship with Country Office and Supply Chain Managers
- Support collation and transmission of pharmacovilance reports to NAFDAC and the state LMCU
- Coordinate micro-planning for the supply chain component of SMC implementation at the assigned state
- Facilitate routine monitoring and supportive supervisory visits to health facilities on effective supply chain management of SMC commodities.
- Coordinate review meetings for all LMIS SMC reports to provide feedbacks on the quality of LMIS reports
- Provide regular feedback to the country Supply Chain Manager in a timely manner
- Provides support to the zonal project manager on program implementation.
Qualifications and experience:
Essential:
- Proven previous experience in Supply Chain and Logistics Management of Malaria or HIV/AIDS commodities
- Have a bachelor degree in Pharmacy with 5 years’ post –qualification experience
- The person must be familiar with the national supply chain system of MoH and LMIS, including MCLS
- Experience working with and engaging stakeholders at the state level
- Ability to engage with stakeholders on the supply chain management of public health commodities
- Good inter-personal, communication and planning skills
Desirable:
- Experience with good understanding of logistic management of public health commodities in Nigeria
Work-based skills and competencies:
Essential:
- Strong analytical skills
- Proven writing skills in English
- Ability to work effectively and sensitively in developing countries
- A collaborative and flexible style, with a strong service mentality
- Negotiation, Facilitation and coordination skills
Application Dealine 24 February 2026
METHOD OF APPLICATION
Interested and Qualified candidates should use link below to Apply.
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