Responsibilities
- Training national staff to store and manage life-saving medications
- Ensuring enough medications are flown in to address sudden malaria outbreaks
- Making sure essential medicines are available when needed, well-managed, and stored and transported appropriately
- Working closely with locally and internationally hired MSF colleagues to ensure good pharmaceutical practices and adherence to national rules
- Being responsible for the quality, appropriateness, and smooth coordination of the medical supply lines, including the storage, distribution, and ordering of drugs and medical equipment
- Analyzing consumption and medical data and advising on local purchases, drug disposal, and medical donations
- Supervising colleagues dealing with the daily management of drugs and medical equipment
Work Arrangement
On-site
Additional Information
- Assignments often mean long hours with a heavy workload, basic living conditions, and working and living in often chaotic and volatile environments
- Security and Safety: MSF acknowledges that it is impossible to exclude all risks, but it does its utmost as an organization to mitigate and manage these risks through strict and comprehensive security protocols
- International staff will be fully informed of the risk associated with a potential assignment before accepting a particular posting
- MSF staff are employees with a salary and benefits
- MSF encourages the completion of multiple assignments
- In the medical, non-medical, and coordination streams, there are many possibilities for professional growth within the organization
- Once in the assignment, all MSF staff must strictly observe security rules and regulations; failure to do so may result in dismissal
- Assignments often mean long hours with a heavy workload, basic living conditions, and working and living in often chaotic and volatile environments
- Despite such challenges, thousands of people have worked with MSF over the years and found their experiences in the field to be deeply rewarding, even life-changing
- Being an MSF international worker means acting in solidarity with people facing unimaginable medical challenges
- Your presence alongside people in times of need sends a profoundly meaningful and human message: “You are not forgotten.”
