The USAID Project Management Specialist -Supply Chain (the “Specialist”) serves as an advisor and provides strategic, technical, analytical, and management support on health logistics and supply chain management. S/he will serve as a Contracting Officer’s Representative/Agreement Officer’s Representative (COR/AOR) and/or Activity Manager supporting health logistics and supply chain activities. The Specialist provides senior-level technical guidance to Health Office staff and leaders, the broader USAID Mission, implementing partners (IPs), the host government, and represents USAID with the interagency, in technical working groups, and other fora. The Specialist reports to the Supply Chain Sub-unit Leader and has no formal supervisory responsibility.

Statement of Duties to be performed.
• Program Management
Serves as a COR/AOR and/or Activity Manager for health logistics and supply chain
• programs/projects/activities awarded through the Health Office, providing financial and programmatic
• oversight to ensure contracts and grants achieve anticipated results, and are linked to and enhance
• attainment of the Health Office, Mission, and USG objectives.
Conducts site visits as required in order to monitor progress, and to provide technical and programmatic
• recommendations to ensure effectiveness, efficiency, and judicious use of U.S. Government (USG)
• funding.
• Technical Guidance and Leadership
• Stay abreast of state-of-the-art knowledge, programming and best practices related to supply chain
• management and utilize this information to improve host country supply chain management.
Coordinate exchanges and sharing of best practices among USAID, USG and other stakeholders to
• strengthen health logistics and supply chain systems improvement.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to the host country government in coordinating health supply
chain systems support, supply planning, forecasting, quantification, and programming.
• Guide USAID and host country government on strategic decisions and policy formulation to strengthen
• supply chain management, including transparency and accountability.
• Provide technical guidance and coordination to Health Office colleagues to ensure development of key
• systems that effectively integrate across the entire health portfolio.
• Provide guidance to Health Office colleagues to monitor the achievement of milestones of IPs supporting health logistics and supply chain system implementation.
Support host country efforts to ensure health supply chain systems fully integrate with key commodity
• management and information systems that will allow end to end data visibility.
• Representation and Reporting
• Represents the Health Office, Mission, and USG at national and/or international technical and
• programmatic meetings, within various working groups, and in consultations with other social sector
• donors, government officials, and IPs.
• Represents supply chain issues in interagency discussions involving senior leadership from USAID,
• CDC, other interagency partners, the PEPFAR Coordination Office and the U.S. Embassy.
Represents supply chain issues to senior host country officials to ensure strong coordination and
• accountability by all relevant actors in the supply chain system.
• Provides technical and strategic leadership in the preparation of key annual and mid-term planning
• reporting documents including the Country Operational Plan, Operational Plan, Congressional Budget
• Justifications, Quarterly, Semi-Annual and Annual Progress Reports.
• Prepare ad hoc reports as required for the Mission, USAID/Washington, Office of Global AIDS
• Coordinator (OGAC), donor coordination groups, and others.
• Drafts talking points and/or speeches for the Office Chief, Mission Director, Ambassador, and others, as
required, and prepares briefing papers, presentations, and coordinates site preparations for VIP site visits.
• Coordinate with USG agencies in on HIV and related commodities management to guide and oversee
• procurement via the current USG supply chain mechanism. This includes forecasting, quantification, and
• procurement of commodities, such as antiretroviral and anti-tuberculosis medicines, male circumcision
• kits, devices and supplies, and HIV test kits, as needed for the implementation of the overall health
portfolio and to ensure adequate stock monitoring at site and above-site levels.
• Participate in workshops, special committees, and other fora as a technical advisor on logistics and supply
• chain management.
• The contractor is eligible for temporary duty (TDY) travel to the U.S., or to other Missions abroad, to participate in the “Foreign Service National” Fellowship Program, in accordance with USAID policy.
• Supervisory Relationship:
• Works under the general supervision of the Supply Chain Sub-unit Leader. The supervisor makes
• assignments in terms of overall objectives and resources available. Completed work is reviewed in terms
• of achievement of program/project/activity goals, effectiveness in meeting host-country and USAID objectives, and integration with other initiatives in the Health Office and Mission portfolio. Some
• technical direction may come from other professionals in the Office; in general, however, the Specialist
• will be expected to exercise considerable autonomy and best judgment in discharging the duties of the
• assignment.
• Supervisory Controls:

Minimum Qualifications Required for this Position
• Offers will be initially screened for compliance with application instructions and eligibility in accordance
• with the minimum qualification criteria listed below.
• Education:
• Completion of a US-style University Master’s Degree in a field related to social science, statistics, mathematics, mathematics, economics, computer science, epidemiology, health informatics, public health, infectious disease, zoonotic disease, biology or other quantitative discipline, or the local equivalent, is
• required. Prior Work Experience:
• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible, professional-level experience in developing, implementing, and/or monitoring and evaluating health supply chain performance improvement activities, including supply chain management, logistics, health commodities management, rational drug use, and/or another closely related area.
• Experience collaborating with and/or working for key donors, development partners, or NGO is required.
• Language Proficiency: Level IV (fluent proficiency) in English, and in the appropriate host-country business language, both written and spoken, is required.  Language competence may be tested.
• Knowledge of national supply chain management systems and Health and HIV/AIDS service delivery in the host country, including but not limited to procurement, warehousing and distribution, receipt and ordering of commodities, supply planning, quantification, and/or use of supply chain management information and management systems.
• Knowledge of donor engagement in supporting health systems strengthening efforts and health commodities.

Skills and Abilities:
• Project management skills, including data and information management, administrative, and monitoring
• skills used to track the performance of implementing partners and activities.
• Excellent communication skills both orally and in writing, especially in being able to present information, analyses, and recommendations to individuals with nontechnical background.
• Ability to respond professionally and adjust in fluid situations in order to meet deadlines in the face of competing priorities and time pressures.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to negotiate difficult issues and build consensus to achieve results with a wide range of individuals.
• Excellent computer and software skills including ability in excel, SPSS, STATA, R and/or other analytical databases.