Over the past few years, Afghanistan has witnessed a relative improvement in security and stability across much of the country. This has allowed humanitarian actors like INTERSOS to maintain uninterrupted access and expand services in areas that were previously hard to reach. Despite this progress, the humanitarian situation remains critical, with millions of Afghans continuing to face acute vulnerabilities due to prolonged economic hardship, natural disasters, and limited access to essential services.

In 2025, more than half of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance, with food insecurity, child malnutrition, and displacement remaining key concerns. Natural disasters, such as floods and recent earthquakes, have further compounded the needs of already struggling communities.

INTERSOS continues to operate through a community-based approach with field bases in Kabul, Kandahar, and Zabul, delivering primary healthcare, nutrition, and protection services with a focus on women, children, and persons with disabilities. The organization enjoys strong community acceptance and collaborates closely with relevant national authorities, including maintaining the full participation of female staff in all activities.

While the operational environment is largely stable and conducive, funding shortfalls and systemic barriers such as restrictions on financial flows and administrative bottlenecks continue to impact the scope and scale of humanitarian response. Sustained support is crucial to ensure the continuity of life-saving services and to address the urgent needs of Afghanistan’s most vulnerable populations.

The Pharmacist Assistant shall ensure the Inventory Management System (IMS) is updated timely and accurately including physical inventory, stock requests, inbound and outbound as well as all medical supplies related information are registered properly and accurately in the system. ensure the overall functioning of the INTERSOS Pharmacies at central and field (project level), securing an adequate and timely supply of quality health consumables, equipment and medicines to the projects.

The pharmacist assistant must ensure proper pharmaceutical management (storage, distribution, inventory, consumption, and data management) for supported health structures and support INTERSOS plan to digitalize health interventions.

Ensures IMS articles are updated before creating PO, deactivate unusable items and follow up on authorization and verification process for all stock requests and inbound-outbound movement.

All these duties according to Mission pharmacist/Pharmacy manager instructions in line with INTERSOS guidelines and considering national and international laws and regulations.

Responsibilities and tasks:

APPROPRIATE MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION:

• Stock Management (IMS): Fully manage IMS in all its aspects and be held accountable for every matter regarding it. Ensure that IMS reports are up to date.
• Data Entry: Ensure all data are entered to IMS and up to date,
• Reception from Suppliers/Central Pharmacy: Receive, perform the inventory and sign documentation regarding the reception of items from Central Pharmacies as well as track all the movement until the dispensing;

DATA ANALYSIS AND COLLECTION

• Data: Be able to provide at any given time reliable information on stock, consumption, use of medicines and health products for each project.
• Analyse: analyse consumption data and cross check with type of activity and project.
• Documentation: Maintain the hard data documentation of all information of the consumables, equipment and medicines, ensure order reception by verifying and recording the quantity and quality of the drugs/medical materials/equipment received
• Soft Data Collection: Receive and organize all the soft data, related to the consumption, distribution, inventory on Excel databases and IMS; ensure IMS updated before any stock movement.

OTHER PHARMACY MANAGEMENT

• Good Storage Practices: Ensure that the pharmacy stock is maintained according to good storage practices.
• Expiration Monitoring: Ensure that expired or damaged items are properly put in quarantine and ensure their effective destruction.
• Inventory: Perform inventory and support random checking of the stock by medical coordinator or mission pharmacist. In case of discrepancies between physical inventory and theoretical stock, investigate and inform the Pharmacy Expert;
• Monitoring: Monitor the stock conditions and consumption of supported health facilities;

REPORTING

• Backup: Make a monthly backup of the database from the pharmacy and share with the Pharmacy Expert. Also make a monthly backup of the professional computer hard drive on the provided external hard drive;
• Documentation: Ensure the proper classification and documentation of the archives and relevant paperwork;
• Meeting: Participate on the meetings from the Base and Pharmaceutical Teams, as well as meetings that you are requested to join, under the supervision of the Pharmacy Expert;
• Monthly Report: Prepare and share with the Pharmacy Expert monthly Situation Report following the guidelines;

OTHER

• Training: Participate and provide trainings by/for INTERSOS, other organizations;
• Pharmaceutical Data: Share information about and from the pharmacy with the supervision of the Pharmacy Expert when requested by different INTERSOS staff;
• Security: Watch and report any issues related to gap/loss/robbery/damage of consumables, documents, equipment and medicines, as well as any relevant security issue to the Mission Pharmacist.

Language skills

• Mandatory: English, Pashto, Dari

Education degree

• Mandatory: Pharmaceutical Sciences/Pharmacy Degree.

Work experience

• Minimum (1) year of working experience in a hospital/health facility set-up or relevant position.
• Humanitarian: Experience with Internally Displace People, volunteering on humanitarian activities and projects;
• Technical: Previous position in pharmaceutical management, such as community pharmacy, primary health care center, health and/or pharmaceutical supplier, pharmaceutical industry logistics;

Knowledge and skills

• Communication Skills: Fluent reading, speaking and writing in English for all the platforms in the mission and with partners;
• Project Management: Skillful on planning, executing, documenting, monitoring and controlling the different steps of the pharmaceutical tasks;
• Commitment to INTERSOS principles.
• Comply with all relevant INTERSOS policies and procedures.
• Ability and willingness to travel to project sites as needed.

Computer skills

• Mandatory: Advanced Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word

Respected Applicants, please visit the link below and fill in the required information.

https://forms.gle/foi2E4SuRtJiKh1S7

Note:This position is only for Local residents

Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted and called for a test/Interview.

Qualified People with Physical Disabilities and Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply