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Job Description
LonAdd HR Consultancy Plc (www.lonadd.com) is a Recruitment & Outsourcing Company based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with branch offices in Dukem and Hawassa. We are looking to recruit a qualified candidate on behalf of our client.
Purpose
The National Coordinator consultant is required to support and coordinate TPM program Nationally, conduct regular monitoring visits and assess the quality of nutrition supply management and gaps at Health Posts, Health Centers, Hospitals, and distribution sites. Gather last-mile supply chain data on misuse/ leakages/theft and review good practice models for consideration.
Background
The monitoring through third-party consultants is part of CLIENT s strategy to improve the quality of services delivered within the scope of the Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) and Ethiopias Humanitarian Response Plan. These services are delivered through Health Posts, Health Centers, and the use of community platforms and include, treatment of severe acute malnutrition, Infant and Young Children Feeding, Vitamin A supplementation for children 6-59 months, prophylaxis deworming for children 24-59 months, Iron Folate supplementation for Pregnant women, and monitoring of Nutrition Situation of women and Children. CLIENT actively supports delivering these lifesaving services, particularly the treatment of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition through more than 20,000 facilities nationwide. Additionally, CLIENT plays a crucial role in supporting the governments humanitarian response capacity in various crises, including armed conflict, drought, flood, food insecurity, conflict, and displacement.
While service expansion and coverage are impressive, supply misuse and leakage are hampering the delivery of the service to the most affected children. CLIENT s support aims to ensure optimum supply management for adequate delivery of SAM treatment services in Ethiopia. This includes logistics support (storage, transportation), and provision of all the nutrition commodities to manage SC and OTP services (RUTF, essential drugs, and therapeutic milks), with additional support from the FMOH to ensure sufficient second-line drugs to complement the SC supplies.
To address these gaps, nutrition service quality and emphasize its importance within the health system, CLIENT will deploy Third Party Monitors (TPM) in the regions/zones and woredas to support the monitoring and reporting of last mile distribution, including markets monitoring, warehouse monitoring and provide recommendations that will support good supply management practices.
Methodology
- The TPM consultant will be recruited, in consultation with the CLIENT Ethiopian country office, and He/She will work closely with CLIENT CO.
- CLIENT will assign the consultant to Zones/City administration to monitor Nutrition supply chain Management.
- The TPM will be responsible to ensure close liaison with the CLIENT Nutrition team in country office and Field office to enable a healthy Nutrition Supply Chain.
Specific Tasks
- Monitoring and field visit:
- Conduct regular monitoring visits and assess the quality of nutrition supply management and gaps at HPs, HCs, Hospitals, and distribution sites. The TPM would use a variety of tools for the regular monitoring visits including:
- direct observations:
- Distribution site visits
- In-depth interviews
- Group discussions
- Survey for data collection
- conducting data quality assurance
- Each TPM is expected to visit on average, 15 site (health facility, community groups, warehouse, and markets) per month and report on this using the ODK based tools.
- Each TPM is expected to Closely monitor supply needs, gaps, leakages, misuse, and spoilage at the site level (health facility, community groups, warehouse, and markets), and alert CLIENT field and Country offices immediately if there are any supply issues
- Each TPM is expected to ensure proper supply management system is in place (request, distribution, storage, and utilization) and misuse/abuse is not practiced at all level.
- Each TPM is expected to Ensure bin cards are kept for nutrition supplies, RUTF, routine drugs and therapeutic milk.
- The TPM should prioritize collecting feedback from beneficiaries
- Proper sampling methods for quantitative surveys and qualitative methods will applied.
- Reports should incorporate findings related to supply management to guide measures that CLIENT and partners including the Regional Health Bureaus and NGOs will prioritize to address gaps or risks identified through the TPM mechanism
- Each TPM is expected to monitor and report to CLIENT on distribution/ requests and appropriate utilization of therapeutic supplies (Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food, Therapeutic milks and essential drugs), and materials, to ensure robust supply pipeline is maintained to and within target Regions
Reporting
- Each TPM is expected to submit monitoring reports through the ODK ensuring completeness and accuracy. Details must include the locations visited by TPM and indicate whether observed activities are implemented through CLIENT s sub-recipients. Reports must also indicate how data was collected, from whom, and recommended actions for improvement. Additionally, the TPM reports should highlight:
- Short Title of Issue Identified (e.g late start of distribution, presence of RUTF in markets, poor organization of distribution, inventory missing X boxes of RUTF, health facility missing X medicines, poor screening practices, no community mobilization, discrepancy in cross check between RUTF dispatched and beneficiary records)
- Implementing Partner
- Location (Region, Zone, Woreda, Site Name)
- Date of Visit
- Description of the Issue
- Recommended Follow-Up Action(s)
No. required Three (3)
Job Requirements
Expected background and Experience.
Third-Party Monitors will meet the following qualifications and experience:
- A University degree in Supply Chain Management/Nutrition/Social Science.
- A proven track record of at least 3 years work experience in nutrition supply chain management or relevant
- Proven ability to work in a team in close collaboration with counterparts.
- Strong planning and analytical skills, data management skills, high degree of self-motivation and a task and output oriented work ethics.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Fluency in the local languages of the deployed region.
How to Apply
Interested applicants with the appropriate qualification and experience should submit their most recent and detailed CV, via email to recruitment@lonadd.com with the subject Third-Party Monitors (TPM) in the subject box.
Application Deadline: April 10, 2024
Only Shortlisted Candidates will be contacted.
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