Medair is an international humanitarian organization established in 1988. Medair has been operating in Afghanistan since 1996 with programs mainly in the Health, Water & Sanitation, and Livelihoods sectors with significant reconstruction activities in remote areas. Current projects are Water & Sanitation, Food Security, & Disaster Risk Reduction.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Tirinkot district.  The project intends to improve and extend WASH services including water supply infrastructure and hygiene practices to improve outcomes for vulnerable families.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Uruzgan, which has been significantly affected by drought and conflict conditions. Building upon Medair’s decades of experience in the Central Highlands and Kandahar, the project intends to improve and extend the utilization of lifesaving preventive and curative nutrition and health services by mothers, PLWs, and children U5; to increase access to clean water, to reduce vulnerability to water-related and other preventable diseases, and to improve and increase food security for the most vulnerable families through food voucher distributions

Overall purpose

The Pharmacy Snr Assistant is an essential member of a BHC providing integrated primary health and nutrition services to targeted communities. The Pharmacy Snr. Assistant will be responsible to manage safe transport and storage of health and nutrition sites, assist in the preparation and safe dispensing of medicine according to prescriptions, provide education on how to take medicines as prescribed, and ensure accurate documentation and reporting of stock consumption is completed from each BHC site. The PSA will work closely with the logistics team and BHC team leader to ensure medicines and supplies are requested in a timely manner and stored securely at clinic locations. The PSA will ensure standard procedures relating to medicines, medical supplies and nutrition commodities are followed by the BHC. The Snr Pharmacy Assistant will work closely with the logistics team and to support implementation of medical management bets practice and Medair policies.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical:

• Manage health and nutrition stock required by BHC in project locations in line with Medair guidelines and best practice.
• Set up pharmacy and nutrition dispensing station at clinic sites.
• Prepare Stock Requests in coordination with BHC team to ensure no stock outs of essential medicines at clinic sites.
• Dispense medicines, medical supplies and nutrition commodities to beneficiaries as per prescriptions provided by BHC clinical staff.
• Ensure required BHC PPE is available and in use appropriately at clinic sites.
• Provide education to beneficiaries receiving nutrition supplies or medicines to ensure they know how to take in accordance with prescription. The PA will be familiar with nutrition job aids for routine nutrition rations and medication.
• Maintain required documentation, including pharmacy dispensing register and nutrition commodities records, tally sheets and upload daily for visibility on pharmacy dashboard.
• Organize preparation and loading of BHC supplies and equipment, and return of supplies to logistics with required documentation.
• Report any problem with the quality of supplies available to logistics, BHC leader and line manager. Complete a loss report for any damaged items.
• Support to logs team as needed to implement Medair medicine stock management policies, including physical stock checks.
• Plan, manage, and proper documentation of the referrals money and ensure transparency while doing the entire process.

General:

• Implement, relevant policies and standards relating to health and nutrition service delivery including, national requirements and donor guidelines.
• Participate as requested in Medair internal workshops and distance learning sessions to keep up with new guidelines and best practices.
• Follow all BHC standard procedures for COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures .
• Support the BHC as needed to set up clinic sites, ensure appropriate pharmacy location and waiting areas consider beneficiary safety in relation to COVID-19 IPC measures, environment.

MAIN ACTIVITIES

• Dispense medicines and nutrition supplies to beneficiaries, according to prescriptions and standard rations.
• Provide beneficiaries with medicine information in accordance with prescription.
• Support the Project team to prepare list of medicines with the standard/required specification.
• Demonstrate that all beneficiaries have received the medicines prescribed.
• Record all pharmaceuticals dispensed in pharmacy registers for each patient and tally all medicine provided.
• Enter daily pharmacy data into ODK.
• Maintain record of BHC pharmacy and nutrition stock.
• Based on project need determine BHC needs in terms of storage, medicines, and project commodities and in coordination with BHC prepare stock requests.
• Ensure medicines, medical supplies and nutrition commodities are prepared and loaded for transportation to clinic sites.
• On request, advise project staff regarding pharmacy management and alert team leader to any concerns/issues.
• Provide required information to the project team.
• Keep awareness and alert system on drugs batch recalls and failures.
• Support Logistics Department in procurement and supply of drugs and commodities.
• On request, provide any type of logistics support requested by line manager.
• Manage the referrals payments while consulting the BHC supervisor and in a collaborative way together with the health and nutrition team.
• Perform any other duties to support BHC and project implementation assigned by the line manager.

Education: Diploma in Pharmcay is required, bachelor’s and master’s degree preferred.

Relevant experience:

• Minimum 3 years experience in the relevant fields (pharmacy and stock management) with national or international NGO is required. 
• Experience working in a BHC or CHC.
• Knowledge of intervention area.
• High flexibility in deployment.

Languages: Good Pashto - oral and written skills and good English - oral and written skills is required.

Computer: Working knowledge in MS word and excel is required. 

Other skills:

• Good organization, planning, and reporting skills.
• Develop and promote effective collaboration within and across departments and units to achieve shared goals and optimize results.
• Work well within a team and coordinate tasks and responsibilities.
• Good listening and counselling skills, patient, and kind attitude.
• Highly motivated to provide high quality services to beneficiaries of poor communities in a challenging setting.
• Good problem-solving skills with a solution-oriented attitude.
• Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as required.
• Respectful and kind with other staff, beneficiaries, and communities.
• Willingness to travel, work and live in a rural setting, and to behave in a manner appropriate to a conservative culture.
• Willingness to learn and develop further.
• Honest in dealing with beneficiaries and Medair staff.

Interested applicants should apply and forward their applications through the online JOB APPLICATION FORM which can be found under the submission email. The link should be copied, pasted, and opened on a new page.

Note: Please indicate the position title and vacancy number in your application letter. Applications received after the closing date or without the exact position title and vacancy number will not be given consideration. After submitting the online application, if some applicants do not immediately receive an automatic email from Medair, they shouldn't worry about their submission. When you open the link. please use the dropdown menu and choose the title of the position.