Remote Global Health Supply Chain Consultant

Summary

Join Bixal as a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Expert, Knowledge Management and Communications Expert, Gender Expert, Climate Change Expert, or Stakeholder Coordination and Facilitation Expert to support the Comprehensive Technical Assistance (TA) for Health Supply Chain and Pharmaceutical Management IDIQ contract with USAID. The ideal candidate will have experience working with donor-funded programs, preferably USAID projects, involving multiple subcontractors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is required
• Master’s degree is preferred
• Proven experience working with donor-funded programs, preferably USAID projects, involving multiple subcontractors
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Experience presenting concepts and results effectively to stakeholders and donor
• Experience in low- and middle-income countries
• Prior experience with public health supply chain programs in the developing countries
• Familiarity with USG regulations (e.g., FAR, AIDAR, ADS) preferred
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
• Fluency in English required

Responsibilities

• Develop and/or update supply chain and pharmaceutical management assessment tools
• Implement relevant assessments in USAID-assisted countries
• Data quality assessments
• Harmonize or align monitoring and evaluation reporting
• Evaluate country-level supply chain and pharmaceutical management activities (where no conflict of interest exists)
• Develop and implement continuous process improvement methods, focused on learning
• Collect and document innovations and lessons learned from the field
• Support processes to collect lessons and new evidence from across the global health supply chain and pharmaceutical management community
• Develop a Knowledge Management and Communications (KMC) strategy
• Establish and maintain processes and/or platforms for knowledge management of deliverables, outputs and outcomes
• Harmonize or align communications formats across NextGen
• Develop strategic communication materials for key audiences - such as success stories, fact sheets, or other communication materials - in support of USAID missions or USAID/Washington
• Develop and implement strategies for sharing information with supply chain and pharmaceutical practitioners, technical partners, decision-makers, and other key audiences within LMICs
• Provide expertise in inclusive development principles and gender equality and social inclusion (GESI)
• Design country-wide gender equality strategy, vision or action plan with operational actions
• Design, manage and implement activities to promote gender equality and social inclusion (youth, disability inclusion)
• Support to countries and local institutions in integrating GESI in technical activities under supply chain management program by implementing gender transformative interventions
• Provide technical assistance in monitoring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in health supply chains; environmental sustainability in supply chain strategies; and management of health care waste from a climate perspective
• Develop and conduct analysis on the impact of climate change on health supply chain
• Develop and implement strategies for building resilience to climate-related shocks
• Provide regular updates and climate related reporting including carbon footprint evaluations and reduction goals
• Stakeholder facilitation and management of senior leaders
• Build relationships, coordination and collaboration with other actors in support of regional, national or local institutions and USAID operating units
• Support/Facilitate country teams to align approaches at the regional level to improve supply chain and pharmaceutical management
• Provide secretariat services for coordination forums
• Advise on coordination mechanisms across Comprehensive TA or NextGen mechanisms that can add value and strengthen collaboration

Benefits

Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer