Pharmacy Storekeeper

Job Description

Title: Pharmacy Storekeeper

Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Vacancy: 1

Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Minimum Salary: Tk. 47500 (Monthly)

Published: 30 Jan 2025

Additional Requirements:
∎ Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) essential.
∎ Desirable Pharmacy-related Degree or Diploma
∎ Essential previous experience of at least 1 year in pharmacy or warehouse management.
∎ Desirable previous experience in MSF or other NGOs in developing countries
∎ Bangla essential and English desirable.
∎ Essential computer literacy (MS Word, Excel and internet)
∎ Results and Quality Orientation L1
∎ Teamwork and Cooperation L1
∎ Behavioural Flexibility L1
∎ Commitment to MSF Principles L1
∎ Service Orientation L1
∎ Stress Management L2
∎ Education and other qualifications:
∎ Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) essential.
∎ Desirable Pharmacy-related Degree or Diploma
∎ Experience:
∎ Essential previous experience of at least 1 year in pharmacy or warehouse management.
∎ Desirable previous experience in MSF or other NGOs in developing countries
∎ Language:
∎ Bangla essential and English desirable.
∎ Knowledge:
∎ Essential computer literacy (MS Word, Excel and internet)
∎ Competences:
∎ Results and Quality Orientation L1
∎ Teamwork and Cooperation L1
∎ Behavioural Flexibility L1
∎ Commitment to MSF Principles L1
∎ Service Orientation L1
∎ Stress Management L2

Requirements:

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Supervising material orders and dispatching in order to ensure rational use.
∎ Receiving orders and deliveries, identifying potential disparities against cargo manifest or others and reporting them, and stores materials in accordance with the system in force, in order to ensure continuous availability. It includes:
∎ Ensuring good storage conditions of all medical items in the pharmacy
∎ Ensuring correct fill in entries on the stock cards and software.
∎ Carrying out or participating in regular inventories including EPREP stock.
∎ Following up stock levels with regards to alarms thresholds, stock out, expiry dates and drugs to expire in the following 6 months.
∎ Preparing orders of the different consumption units (departments, wards, others), Informing Pharmacy Supervisor as soon as stock reaches alert limit.
∎ Controlling warehouse facilities in order to ensure materials are kept in good keeping conditions, it includes:
∎ e.g. Monitoring temperature in the warehouse and ensuring that products requiring cold chain are suitably stored and transports received, stored, and prepared and transported appropriately according to MSF Supply and Cold Chain protocols.
∎ Ensuring cleanliness of premises (stock pharmacy, preparation table) and in close collaboration with the logistics department, maintaining refrigerating equipment.
∎ Controlling warehouse-limited access to authorized personnel and ensuring doors and other exits are secured.
∎ Ensuring that items to be quarantined (on-going quality alerts) or to be placed in quarantine zone (batch recalls, expired or damaged items) are removed from the stock and safely locked.
∎ Following up stock levels with regards to alarms thresholds, stock out, expiry dates and drugs to expire in the following 6 months. Preparing reports and passing it to the supervisor.
∎ Preparing passive cold chain for the unit.
∎ Assist in the transportation and supply of Hepatitis C medication, including accountability for the HepC project.
∎ Ensure timely daily, weekly, and monthly supplies for the HepC project and other projects.
∎ Participate in all types of reception activities (International Medical Order, Local Purchase, donations, returns, expired medicine).
∎ Actively help with the loading and unloading of goods during receptions and supplies.
∎ Main Purpose:
∎ Execute the pharmacy/medical warehouse storing activities in order to keep pharmacy stock above security level and following recommended conditions (temperature, humidity, etc.) under the supervision of the Pharmacy Supervisor, and in collaboration with the logistics team.
∎ General Accountabilities:
∎ Supervising material orders and dispatching in order to ensure rational use.
∎ Receiving orders and deliveries, identifying potential disparities against cargo manifest or others and reporting them, and stores materials in accordance with the system in force, in order to ensure continuous availability. It includes:
∎ Ensuring good storage conditions of all medical items in the pharmacy
∎ Ensuring correct fill in entries on the stock cards and software.
∎ Carrying out or participating in regular inventories including EPREP stock.
∎ Following up stock levels with regards to alarms thresholds, stock out, expiry dates and drugs to expire in the following 6 months.
∎ Preparing orders of the different consumption units (departments, wards, others), Informing Pharmacy Supervisor as soon as stock reaches alert limit.
∎ Controlling warehouse facilities in order to ensure materials are kept in good keeping conditions, it includes:
∎ e.g. Monitoring temperature in the warehouse and ensuring that products requiring cold chain are suitably stored and transports received, stored, and prepared and transported appropriately according to MSF Supply and Cold Chain protocols.
∎ Ensuring cleanliness of premises (stock pharmacy, preparation table) and in close collaboration with the logistics department, maintaining refrigerating equipment.
∎ Controlling warehouse-limited access to authorized personnel and ensuring doors and other exits are secured.
∎ Ensuring that items to be quarantined (on-going quality alerts) or to be placed in quarantine zone (batch recalls, expired or damaged items) are removed from the stock and safely locked.
∎ Following up stock levels with regards to alarms thresholds, stock out, expiry dates and drugs to expire in the following 6 months. Preparing reports and passing it to the supervisor.
∎ Context-Specific Accountabilities:
∎ Preparing passive cold chain for the unit.
∎ Assist in the transportation and supply of Hepatitis C medication, including accountability for the HepC project.
∎ Ensure timely daily, weekly, and monthly supplies for the HepC project and other projects.
∎ Participate in all types of reception activities (International Medical Order, Local Purchase, donations, returns, expired medicine).
∎ Actively help with the loading and unloading of goods during receptions and supplies.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ This is a temporary position for HEP-C project.
∎ Initial contract would be for eighteen (18) months.
∎ Salary per month according to level four (4) of the internal MSF salary grid (BDT 47,500/- gross). Salary is not negotiable.
∎ 2 annual leave days per month worked.
∎ Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents based on Health Care Policy
∎ This is a temporary position for HEP-C project.
∎ Initial contract would be for eighteen (18) months.
∎ Salary per month according to level four (4) of the internal MSF salary grid (BDT 47,500/- gross). Salary is not negotiable.
∎ 2 annual leave days per month worked.
∎ Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents based on Health Care Policy

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Read Before Apply:

Only online applications via the link below will be accepted. Please apply through the following link by 09/02/2025 with updated resume, cover letter, and  other relevant documents i.e. NID, Experience Certificate, degree and training certificate:  

  

Application Link:  https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/57WTfAnF

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Company Information:
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
∎ 5th Floor, Khawaja Palace, Plot N. 76, Ro-11, Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh.
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in over 80 countries worldwide. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1992. MSF was awarded the prestigious `Nobel Peace Prize` in 1999 for its pioneering humanitarian activities since 1971 in several continents.

Address::
∎ 5th Floor, Khawaja Palace, Plot N. 76, Ro-11, Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh.
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in over 80 countries worldwide. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1992. MSF was awarded the prestigious `Nobel Peace Prize` in 1999 for its pioneering humanitarian activities since 1971 in several continents.

Application Deadline: 9 Feb 2025

Category: NGO/Development