Senior Supply Chain Advisor
Role is open to candidates based in Africa only.
Amid increasing disruptions to global supply chains and shifts in the global aid financing landscape, the Senior Supply Chain Advisor (SSCA) will provide strategic leadership to help ensure reliable access to safe abortion commodities, contraceptives, and gender-based violence management supplies across development and humanitarian contexts. This role will strengthen supply availability through formal health systems and self-care pathways by establishing and enhancing global technical tools, processes, monitoring mechanisms, and partnerships that contribute to a sustainable abortion ecosystem. Effective supply chain management is a critical pillar for building resilient, responsive, and equitable pathways to care. Summary of Responsibilities
The SSCA serve as subject matter expert for global health supply chain technical issues, in areas such as quantification, forecasting, procurement, storage and distribution and inventory management, logistics management information systems (LMIS), health systems strengthening, budgeting and financial management, driving and analyzing supply chain performance, and program effectiveness.
The role is expected to translate technical expertise into practical tools, country support, and partnership strategies that reduce supply interruptions and improve visibility, availability, and responsible use of reproductive health commodities.
Organizational Leadership and Strategy:
- Lead the Ipas supply chain management approach across the network by ensuring that evidence and best practice inform strategies and efforts to sustain the availability of abortion and contraception drugs across the different pathways to care.
Program, technical, and functional responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and support to strengthen sexual and reproductive health commodity supply chains at global, regional, and country levels across the pathways to care
- Support countries to assess gaps in reproductive health commodity systems and implement corrective actions.
- Improve forecasting, quantification, procurement, warehousing, distribution, transportation, quality assurance, and logistics management information systems for abortion and contraception commodities.
- Design and optimize supply chain strategies, tools, and frameworks for SRH commodities in partnership with country programs, governments, and partners to speed up product flow.
- Build national capacity through training, mentoring, curricula development, and knowledge transfer for supply chain staff and stakeholders.
- Strengthen partnerships with national, regional, and international experts, institutions, and partner organizations to advance RH supply chain systems.
- Promote evidence-based approaches, lessons learned, innovation, and increase data visibility and use for continuous improvement of supply chain performance and operations.
- Establish quality assurance, sustainability assessment, monitoring, evaluation frameworks, and KPIs to track supply chain performance globally.
- Mitigate supply chain disruptions through risk management, contingency planning, supplier diversification, and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Foster innovation in procurement, market shaping, inventory management, distribution, and technology-enabled global stock management, including in crisis-affected settings.
- Contribute to the regional advocacy efforts to integrate abortion commodities in essential medicine lists (EML), including supporting the registration and marketing authorization of abortion commodities.
- Capitalize on private sector supply chain capacity and knowledge for innovative packaging, distribution, and user experience documentation.
- Lead monitoring and evidence synthesis on the safety and quality of abortion commodities used locally in order to contribute to external collective efforts of pharmacovigilance.
Resource mobilization:
- Contribute to project design, prop