Supply Chain and Logistics Advisor, Family Planning, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Founded in 2002 by President William J. Clinton, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems around the world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other illnesses. Based on the premise that business oriented strategy can facilitate solutions to global health challenges, CHAI acts as a catalyst to mobilize new resources and optimize the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization of commodity markets and more effective local management. By working in association with governments and other NGO partners, CHAI is focused on large scale impact and, to date, CHAI has secured lower pricing agreements for treatment options in more than 70 countries. In addition, CHAI's teams are working side-by-side with over 30 governments to tackle many of the largest barriers to effective treatment and care.

Over 200 million women around the world have an unmet need for family planning, indicating they would like to stop or limit childbearing, but do not have access to methods to do so. Increasing access to family planning has the potential to reduce maternal and infant mortality, reduce the number of deaths due to unsafe abortion, and improve the health outcomes of women and families overall. In Tanzania, 25% of women have an unmet need for family planning and it is estimated that only 24% of all women are currently using modern methods of family planning.

Long-acting and reversible contraception (LARC), including implants and IUDs, are family planning methods with high rates of effectiveness (more than 99%) and can be used by all groups of women. In 2013, CHAI worked with partners and manufacturers to reduce the price of contraceptive implants by more than 50%. To ensure that this price reduction ultimately benefits women with unmet family planning needs, CHAI is collaborating closely with Ministries of Health to coordinate safe, rapid, and evidence-based scale up of LARC services to enable complete method choice. CHAI’s work focuses on helping Ministries conduct and utilize analyses of human resource needs and supply chain performance to identify and cost gaps, plan programming to address these gaps, coordinate targeted implementation and follow up, and monitor and troubleshoot LARC scale up.

In Tanzania, CHAI seeks to expand support for family planning through collaboration with the Reproductive and Child Health Section (RCHS) at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) and other implementing partners working on family planning.
The Supply Chain and Logistics Advisor will be responsible for supporting CHAI-Tanzania’s family planning work in logistics, supply planning, and stock management. This person will be seated at RCHS within the MOHSW reporting to the National Family Planning Coordinator, as well as the CHAI FP Program Manager. The position will be based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with 40% travel to zones and regions elsewhere in Tanzania.

Responsibilities:

• Work with RCHS and the Logistics Management Unit (LMU) in the MOHSW to monitor facility-level family planning commodity consumption and stock levels, especially for implants, through existing web-based systems (e.g. eLMIS and ILS Gateway systems) to track performance and identify problems
• Collaborate and communicate closely with both the Medical Stores Department (MSD) staff at the central and zonal levels and LMU Supply Chain Monitoring Advisors (SCMAs) at MSD zones to monitor zonal-level stocks of family planning commodities and coordinate troubleshooting of zonal and facility-level stock challenges
• Conduct monitoring visits to zonal stores and select regions/districts/facilities to verify implant and other family planning commodity stock levels
• Support national quantification and forecasting of family planning commodities
• Support the development of an integrated stock and human resources dashboard (likely web-based) to assist RCHS in identifying regions/districts for additional investment in training and supply chain capacity building
• Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders in government, international partners, donors, and NGOs, especially partners in focal districts
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Medicine, Public Health, Logistics Management or other related field, with a minimum of three years’ work experience within a demanding and fast-paced environment. Master’s degree in above areas preferred.
• Experience in supply chain management or related operations and logistics work
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and quantitative skills
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills, and strong interpersonal capabilities
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and set priorities
• Experience utilizing data to inform program development and strategic recommendations
• Self-motivated and ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work within limited budgets and human resources
• Previous experience and ability to work cohesively with multiple stakeholders (e.g. MOHSW, donors, INGOs)
• Experience working effectively with diverse teams
• Willingness to frequently travel domestically
• Fluency in Swahili

Advantages:

• Field implementation experience of at least one project in supply chain domain such as Logistics Management Information System, transport management, or other stock management strongly preferred
• Experience designing and managing Excel models

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