Global Pharmacy Advisor – Maternity Cover at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children, celebrating its 100 years in 2019 as a US$2bn dollar organisation with 25,000 staff in 117 countries – health and nutrition programs being the largest component of its global activity.

One of our 2030 Ambitions is to inspire a breakthrough for child survival – that no child dies from preventable causes before their fifth birthday. This role plays an instrumental role in achieving this breakthrough by contributing to strengthen compliance to safeguard beneficiaries against potential harm from poor sourcing and distribution practices in line with the regulations and the requirements specified for holders of the Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (WDA-H) from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

As a core member of the global medical team, the Global Pharmacy Advisor will lead on the pharmacy services quality workstream and will contribute to achieving the 2022-24 strategic objectives by working across the following priorities:

• Technical inputs to develop/strengthen relevant policies, procedures and guidelines
• Technical leadership on pharmaceutical quality management and support programs
• Technical support to build capacity of SCI country, regional and global staff
• Contribute to strengthen strategic relationships and partnerships
• Contribute to strategic communications and technical publications

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential:

• Degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent qualification), and current registration with the relevant national professional body.
• Extensive experience of managing pharmacy services (primary and/or secondary healthcare) and strengthening pharmaceutical systems, ideally in low resource settings.
• Extensive multi-country experience of working in the INGO sector, within complex/large scale country programmes and/or in emergency response/humanitarian settings.
• Experience and understanding of the end-to-end pharmaceutical management cycle (sourcing, storage and transport, use, disposal).
• Proficient in designing and conducting audits and field assessments, critically appraising and writing reports, identify gaps and implement recommendations.
• Experience of developing policies, and preparing/reviewing technical documents.
• Experience of pharmacovigilance, incident reporting and risk management.
• Experience of providing remote support, capacity building and delivering trainings.
• Cultural awareness and ability to work effectively and collaboratively across diverse teams, functions, offices and organizations.
• Strong planning, organization, problem-solving and influencing skills.
• Excellent written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills in English.
• Right to work in the UK (or country of residence).

Desirable:

• Additional specialist / public health qualification.
• Working proficiency in a second language, preferably French, Spanish or Arabic
• Experience in assuring Good Distribution Practice for pharmaceutical products.
• Understanding of Regulatory Systems of the global pharmaceutical market, pharmaceutical innovation, financing and access to medicines issues.