Pharmacy Storekeeper At Médecins Sans Frontières

The French Section of Médecins Sans Frontières is recruiting for its project in Katsina:

CONTEXT

Médecins Sans Frontières is a private, not-for-profit international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to populations in distress, without discrimination and regardless of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.

MSF has been active in Katsina since February 2021 after carrying an exploratory mission that end up with an opening of the project.

Currently, MSF is running an ITFC (Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centre) in Katsina in the Kofar Sauri PHCC and 4 ATFC (Ambulatory Therapeutic Feeding Centre) including three in Jibia LGA (Magama, Daddara, Riko,) and one in Katsina City (Kofar Marusa).

MAIN PURPOSE

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Supervising material orders and dispatching to ensure rational use. 
• Receiving orders and deliveries, identifying potential disparities against cargo manifest or others and reporting them, and stores materials in accordance with the system in force, to ensure continuous availability. It includes: 
• Ensuring good storage conditions of all medical items in the pharmacy in accordance with pharmaceutical standards to ensure continuous availability. 
• Ensuring correct fill in entries on the stock cards and software.
• Carrying out or participating in regular inventories including EPREP stock.
• Following up stock levels with regards to alarms thresholds, stock out, expiry dates and drugs to expire in the following 6 months.
• Preparing orders of the different consumption units (departments, wards, others), ensuring proper packaging and dispatching and reporting any anomalies or changes in consumption patterns to the Pharmacy Supervisor. Informing the Pharmacy Supervisor as soon as stock reaches the alert limit. 
• Controlling warehouse facilities to ensure materials are kept in good keeping conditions, it includes e.g. Monitoring temperature in the warehouse and ensuring that products requiring cold chain are suitably stored and transports received, stored, and prepared and transported appropriately according to MSF Supply and Cold Chain protocols. 

• Ensuring cleanliness of premises (stock pharmacy) and in close collaboration with the logistics department, maintain refrigerating equipment.
• Controlling warehouse limits access to authorized personnel and ensuring doors and other exits are secured. Immediately informing the line manager of any problems arising in the course of work, particularly with regards to damage, loss, attempted break-ins or theft in the warehouse.
• Ensuring that items to be quarantined (on-going quality alerts) or to be placed in quarantine zone (batch recalls, expired or damaged items) are removed from the stock and safely locked.
• Following up stock levels with regards to alarms thresholds, stock out, expiry dates and drugs to expire in the following 6 months. Preparing reports and passing it to the supervisor
• Support pharmacy supervisor in the management and supervision of daily workers
• Monitor temperature and ensure suitable storage of all pharmaceutical items, including cold chain management, according to MSF protocols and specifications all along the distribution chain: reception, organization, delivery & (or) donations.
• Under the supervision of the Pharmacy supervisor, handle controlled & expired drugs. Escalate immediately in case of any cold chain rupture during the distribution chain. Participating in physical inventories
• Provide information on all stock movements for the week for entry into Isystock
• Follow and ensure schedules for inventory & replacement of expat house medicine cupboard, first aid kits & Emergency box(es).  Ensure proper identification and arrangement of the stocks according to projects

• Ensure proper separation and identification of the special stocks (quarantined items, expired items, and on hold items)
• Ensure and participate in stock and premises cleanliness o Prepare for / participate in each cargo reception, order packaging, relevant documentation.  Ensure FEFO for all pharmaceutical items. Complete stock cards of all in / out movements. Ensure Pharmacy access is only for authorized personnel. Report any disappearances or other security incidents
• Performing any other task, specific to his/her area of specialty, as defined in his/her job description and according to the line manager.
  

REQUIREMENTS

CONTRACT: Fixed Term
208 working hours per month.  
REMUNERATION
According to MSF salary scale plus 13^th month allowance equivalent to 1 month of gross salary

To Apply     

Interested and qualified candidates please submit your CV with cover letter and all certificates/ credentials to the Box in MSF office, N7, Block J, Kpl201 New government House Road katsina.

Application must include:

Complete CV with Cover letter and copies of all certificates and diplomas mentioned in the CV

Applicant Contact details and ID and contact of references mentioned in the application.

Deadline for the submission of applications: 28^th March 2025 by 4:00pm

MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS WILL LEAD TO AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION OF BOTH APPLICATIONS

Qualified females are highly encouraged to apply

Only successful applicants will be called for next steps and are obligated to disclose any information about family member(s) currently in the employment of MSF-France in any location.

Dual Employment is considered gross misconduct and hence not acceptable.

MSF reserves the right to cancel any step or whole of the recruitment process at any stage.

MSF France takes this opportunity to thank all potential candidates for their application

No monetary transactions, neither demands of favours in kind, nor other types of favouritism will be tolerated in the MSF recruitment process.

MSF reserves the right to refuse hiring a candidate having benefitted from any such acts. All illicit demands may be pursued through the judicial system.

MSF is an equal opportunity employer and encourages any Nigerian citizen to apply irrespective of race, gender, religion, creed, political affiliation.