Regional Supply Chain Management Specialist, Latin

hace 18 horas


Panama Un Volunteers A tiempo completo

**Job Description The Position**: The Regional Supply Chain Management Specialist is located in the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office (LACRO). You report directly to the Head of Country Support and Monitoring in Supply Chain Management Unit (SCMU) in Copenhagen with a dotted reporting line to the International Operations Manager in the Regional Office. You will work closely with the colleagues in SCMU, Technical Division/ Commodity Security Branch, the UNFPA Supplies Partnership, the Humanitarian Office, and the Country Offices in the region. You are tasked with supporting the Head of Country Support and Monitoring on regional efforts to strengthen national forecasting/quantification, procurement planning, introduction of new products, and strengthening downstream supply chain management, ensuring "end-to-end" visibility and effective distribution of UNFPA donated commodities, and identifying, troubleshooting, and implementing remedial action plans from the Last Mile Assurance (LMA) process recommendations for the countries in the Region.

To do so, it provides enabling services to Regional Offices and Country Offices and ensures coordination, end-to-end visibility, and accountability on all supply-chain-management related activities, across all UNFPA Programmes. Job Purpose: As Regional Supply Chain Management Specialist, you will support the Head of Country Support and Monitoring on regional efforts on oversight for sexual and reproductive health supply chain initiatives in the Region, providing advice and support to ensure all member states have access to quality assured contraceptives, essential, lifesaving maternal health commodities, and other related core reproductive health commodities. You will support the provision of technical and programmatic guidance to governments, implementing partners and UNFPA Country Offices to develop and implement supply chain management strategies applicable in development and humanitarian settings, and to ensure programme supplies are effectively managed and safeguarded in accordance with the applicable supply-chain management and procurement policies, procedures, and related guidelines. In the broadest definition, this role is multi-sectoral and crosscutting, engaging in all issues affecting commodity security, health system strengthening, supply management and quality assurance, as well as promoting availability, accessibility, and sustainability of SRH commodities.

The role will also contribute to relevant data collection and consolidation processes, developing guidelines and tools, and ensuring interagency coordination and maintaining relevant partnerships and facilitating/monitoring compliance with policies. You will support the provision of relevant advice and capacity building in the forecasting/quantification as well as development and validation of national supply plans, procurement plans for countries in the Region, and guidance on distribution, inventory, and warehouse management, in line with good storage practices for health products. You will work in close collaboration with the Technical Division, UNFPA Supplies Partnership, Supply Chain Management Unit, Humanitarian Office, Country Offices in the Region, and key Third Party-Procurement clients, ensuring timeliness, adequacy and relevance and quality of substantive outputs. You would be responsible for: You will support the Head of Country Support and Monitoring on regional efforts to: A.

Strategic Technical Oversight and Leadership Advise Governments, Implementing Partners and Country Offices across the functional areas of SCM covering forecasting and supply planning, regular and emergency procurement, national logistics management - including medical logistics, inventory accounting and control, warehousing, and good storage practices, LMA, and data collection and monitoring. In close collaboration with the Humanitarian Office and SCMU Emergency & Logistics Team, advise Governments, Implementing Partners and Country Offices on timely coordination of delivery of supplies for humanitarian response, including prepositioning. Guide UNFPA Country Offices, including those in humanitarian settings, to implement SCM practices, logistics preparedness and contingency planning, including prepositioning where required, to enable continuity and scale up of lifesaving services, including in humanitarian crises, when needed. Provide technical guidance on pharmaceutical management in accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO) policies (Good Storage Practices/Good Distribution Practices and the Model Quality Assurance System) as well as national policy frameworks and support the update of national guidelines Identify and analyse global and regional trends, threats, and risks in Reproductive Health Commodity Security (RHCS) that may have an impact on the SDGs, 2030 Agenda and UNFPA's work and guide countries in mitigating them.

Identify regional priority areas in RHCS and develop UNFPA strategic



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