Catholic Relief Services is the official agency of the United Catholic Conference of Bishops for relief and development assistance overseas.
Position Title: Nutrition Technical Advisor
Department: Programming
Reports TO: Program Technical Director
Location: Benue, Nigeria
Duration: Full Time
Band: E-I
General functions:
The Nutrition TA (NTA) will be responsible for working closely with the SMILE technical team to achieve the strategic objectives of the program - focusing primarily on nutrition, WASH and health, but also supporting cross-cutting themes and integration efforts across the project with other areas of OVC programming, especially household economic strengthening and food security. Slhe will lead planning and capacity strengthening efforts while putting in place operational strategies for achieving project aims, results and performance expectations through adherence to high standards of programmatic and management quality.
Qualifications and Skills:
. Minimum of Master's Degree in Public Health, Nutrition or related field required.
. Minimum 6 years technical experience with community-level health and/or nutrition programs in Nigeria. Experience with behavior change analysis and communication, IMCI, CMAM, WASH and IYCF interventions desirable.
. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government and civil society partners and communities as well as transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through workshops, training and meetings using participatory methods and adult learning principles.
. Proven leadership and inter-personal skills for effective team work; as well as the ability to work independently on a frequent basis, taking initiative, managing a variety of activities concurrently, and delivering outputs on schedule.
. Demonstrated ability to support partners working at a distance to achieve results against program objectives/targets.
. Successful experience in project design and proposal development in the nutritionlhealth sector for USAID/PEPFAR preferred,
. Experience with monitoring and evaluation and reporting nutrition activities.
. Good knowledge of Government of Nigeria nutrition and health priorities with experience working with Ministry of Health and other relevant entities.
. Familiarity with OVC programming and principles.
. Familiarity with food science and processing helpful.
. Excellent English oral and written communication skills required.
. Excellent analytic, organizational and computer skills; skilled in MS
. Office including Word. Excel. Outlook. and PowerPoint. Experience with SharePoint a plus
(Note: Qualifred Applicants who had earlier applied for thisposition should please re-apply)
Job Title: Supply Chain Manager, Global
Fund
Band: Band D-1
Reports to: Senior Program Manager (SPM)
Based in: Enugn, Nigeria
Job Responsibilities:
Provide technical support to assigned partner facilities to ensure best practices in patient care, antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and laboratory commodity management.
Serves as a link between the centralized Supply Chain Management Systems (SCMS) and the CRS' GF partner facilities in the supply of ARVs, opportunistic infection
(OI) drugs and laboratory commodities supplied. Ensure timely receipt and review of ARVs/OI drugs, laboratory reagents and rapid test kits, logistics management and information system (LMIS) reports/ adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports from partner facilities.
In collaboration with the program and technical staff, develop, implement and periodically update a decentralized work plan. Prepare accurate commodity requirements/delivery order for commodities not covered in the supply chain unification project and ensure timely resupply of commodities to partner facilities assigned.
Prepare the quantification of commodity needs for the CRS' GF program. Liaise with the supply chain management systems to ensure timely delivery of commodities to partner
facilities assigned for commodities covered in the supply chain unification project. Conduct monitoring and mentoring visits to assigned partner facilities to ensure smooth implementation of
supply chain and pharmacy activities.
Support capacity strengthening, provide technical assistance, and develop standard operating procedures for inventory management and other aspects of supply chain management that will assure the quality and availability of commodities at partner facilities.
Ensure supply chain activities in partner facilities are aligned with the Government of Nigeria standard operating procedure.
Qualifications and Skills:
1. Minimum of three years' work experience with progressive responsibility in pharmaceutical, and/or supply chain management.
2. Previous experience working with G F and/ or USG funded programs will be an advantage.
3. Master's degree in public health or related field will be an added advantage.
4.Excellent oral and written communication skills.
5. Strong quantitative and analytical skills
6. Excellent training and facilitation skills.
7. Strong computer skills- Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPointrequired.
8. Experience in partner capacity strengthening preferred.
9. Knowledge of CRS' program quality standards will be an advantage.
10. Proven ability to work remotely as part of a team and to work independently.
11. Cultural sensitivity, patience and flexibility.
12. Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% of the time.
How to apply:
Interested applicants should download the CRS application form using this link HTTPS://WWW.drOpbOx.com/s106q5xifhyfusa3/CRS%20Application%20Form.doc and send with a
detailed CV as attached MS Word documents to [email protected]
Applicants must explicitly state the position applied for in the CRS application form and in the subject of their email e.g, DRIVER-ENUGU
Completed applications should reach us before 5pm, Wednesday, 7" of August, 2013. Only applications sent in the required format will be considered and only short listed candidates will be contacted.
"CRS is an equal-opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basic of race, color, religion, etc. Qualified women are strongly to apply"
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