PHARMACY STOREKEEPER Medecins Sans Frontieres Belgium
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translates to Doctors without Borders. We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - bound together by our charter. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.
MSF was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors. Today, we are a worldwide movement of nearly 65,000 people.
Supervisor:
Pharmacy Manager (Project or Mission) Supply-Log
No. of Post:
1
Duty Station:
Khartoum
Duration:
until 31 December 2025
Closing Date:
24 July 2025
Background:
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 Medical Warehouse (for OCB) or Pharmacy Supervisor, and in collaboration with the logistics team.
Duties and responsibilities:
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 in accordance with pharmaceutical standards in order to ensure continuous availability.
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), ensuring proper packaging and dispatching and reporting any anomalies or changes in consumption patterns to the Pharmacy Supervisor. 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 eEnsuring 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) 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. Immediately informing the line manager of any problems arising in the course of the work, particularly with regards to damage, loss, attempted break-ins or theft in the warehouse.
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.
Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:
Education
Essential, secondary school. Desirable, medical related studies.
Experience
Essential previous experience of at least 2 years in similar or relevant positions.
Desirable previous experience in MSF or other NGOs in developing countries.
Languages
Essential local language, desirable mission working language.
Knowledge
Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
Competencies
Results and Quality Orientation L1
Teamwork and Cooperation L1
Behavioural Flexibility L1
Commitment to MSF Principles L1
Service Orientation L1
Stress Management. L2
Application procedure
Assemble your application, including letter of motivation, CV with active contact number, copies of required diplomas/certificates, work experience, active references of the previous employers and copy of Sudanese National ID.
Clearly indicate the position you are applying for and submit your application to:
Omdurman
HAC office / Medecins Sans Frontieres Belgium offices (MSFOCB), Omdurman, Khartoum Sudan
Online
Sudanjob.net
Deadline
Thursday, July 24, 2025, 4PM
MSF is a civil society initiative that brings together individuals committed to the assistance of other human beings in crisis. As such MSF is by choice an association. Each individual working with MSF does it out of conviction and is ready to uphold the values and principles of MSF.
