Supply Chain Management Officer

• PositionSupply Chain Management Officer
• CompanyBaylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation-Uganda
• LocationJinja and Lira City, Uganda
• Job TypeContract
• CategoryProcurement & Logistics, NGO, Health Jobs in Uganda
• IndustryHealth and health-systems strengthening
• DepartmentHealth Systems Strengthening
• DeadlineSunday, 15 November 2026

Baylor Foundation Uganda is an indigenous not-for-profit organisation established in 2006. The foundation describes work in HIV, tuberculosis, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, and global health security.

The organisation says it partners with Uganda’s Ministry of Health, district health teams, local authorities and development partners. Its health-systems-strengthening programme includes capacity building, health information systems, laboratory systems and supply-chain management.

The Supply Chain Management Officer provides technical assistance to assigned regional referral hospitals and local authorities so that health commodities remain available. The work covers quantification and procurement planning, oversight of ordering and reporting, order-quality assurance and analysis of fulfilment, missed orders and late submissions. The officer also coordinates with district teams, health-facility focal persons, Ministry of Health counterparts, warehouses and regional partners to resolve stock-outs, expiries, overstocks and refill discrepancies. Daily and weekly performance data, escalation notes and reports support operational follow-up.

The post is based in Jinja or Lira City and reports to the Medical Logistics and Supply Chain Manager in the Health Systems Strengthening department. It supports technical-assistance teams, district health officers, biostatisticians, health-facility data staff and regional medicines committees. Additional work includes joint supervision, action tracking, medicines-and-therapeutics committee reporting, antimicrobial stewardship and pharmacovigilance support, and expiry-waste management. The foundation advertises two full-time fixed-term posts and requires at least three years of work experience.

• Build the capacity of technical assistance teams to navigate, analyse and monitor order-submission performance.
• Provide regional oversight of quantification, ordering and reporting processes for local authorities.
• Coordinate stakeholders and disseminate new quantification guidance from the Ministry of Health.
• Analyse regional order-fulfilment rates, missed orders and late submissions, and escalate systemic issues to the Ministry of Health, NMS or JMS.
• Monitor last-mile delivery and order-fulfilment analyses by technical-assistance teams and relay discrepancies for warehouse refill.
• Plan and conduct quarterly joint order-quality-assurance missions with regional NMS, JMS and local-authority technical-assistance teams.
• Update regional supply-chain platforms daily with district input, process and output indicator performance.
• Share daily escalation notes with technical-assistance teams and district health teams on stock-outs, expiries and overstocks.
• Participate in scheduled virtual Ministry of Health catch-ups and support local-authority and regional-referral-hospital teams to share updates.
• Participate in monthly regional supply-chain technical working group meetings and support the regional referral hospital pharmacist to document and follow up critical action points.
• Contact local-authority and health-facility focal persons physically or virtually to address supply-chain gaps and recognise strong performance.
• Share Ministry of Health updates, circulars, guidelines, standards and standard operating procedures with relevant stakeholders.
• Disseminate daily supply-chain performance information and support local-authority focal persons to analyse data and create graphical summaries for action.
• Support district health officers and chief administrative officers to use WSS, HMIS 105-6, eLMIS and CRPDDP distribution-tracker dashboards to address slow progress.
• Review, validate and share weekly performance briefs with district health officers and Baylor Foundation Uganda management.
• Support AIMO staff to compile bimonthly delivery reports and order-fulfilment analyses.
• Support AIMO staff to compile warehouse discrepancies, including under-supply, incorrect packs and delayed refills, and share summaries with management.
• Respond on the same day to escalations from the supervisor, senior management team, local authorities and health-facility focal persons.
• Submit weekly supply-chain summary briefs to the supervisor.
• Submit quarterly performance reports to the supervisor by the fifth day of the new quarter.
• Supervise technical-assistance teams on the functionality of Medicines and Therapeutics Committees, antimicrobial stewardship and pharmacovigilance.
• Guide local authorities to integrate antimicrobial stewardship, pharmacovigilance and rational-medicine-use indicators into Medicines and Therapeutics Committee agendas.
• Consolidate monthly regional Medicines and Therapeutics Committee reports and submit them to management with gaps and best practices highlighted.
• Plan monthly joint targeted-support supervisions with district health teams and technical-assistance teams.
• Support district health officers to assign technical-assistance officers and routinely review their impact for appropriate action.
• Support technical-assistance teams to submit field activity reports to district health officers and ensure dashboard gaps are addressed, with relevant photographs attached as evidence.
• Support biostatisticians, health-management-information-system focal persons and health-facility data assistants to analyse monthly expired-medicine stock data and wastage percentages by facility.
• Support technical-assistance teams to use monthly expiry reports to conduct targeted support supervision at facilities with the highest wastage.
• Support district health officers to track expired medicines for withdrawal and disposal by NMS.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy; or a Diploma in Pharmacy together with a bachelor’s degree in procurement, logistics, supply chain management or public health.
• At least a credit 6 in Mathematics and English at Ordinary Level (UCE).

Work Experience

• At least three years of total working experience.
• Experience in medical logistics and health-systems strengthening.
• Experience with HIV/TB programmes and knowledge of national pharmaceutical policies and systems are added advantages.

Additional Requirements

• Applications should include a cover letter, CV, daytime telephone contact, three traceable professional references, UNEB certificates and university transcripts.
• The vacancy is for two posts in Jinja and Lira City and reports to the Medical Logistics and Supply Chain Manager.

Technical Skills

• Medical logistics: Experience in medical logistics and health-systems strengthening is required.
• Health commodity supply chain: The role covers quantification, ordering, order fulfilment, delivery performance, warehouse discrepancies and expiry monitoring.
• Supply-chain performance monitoring: The advert names WSS, HMIS 105-6, eLMIS and CRPDDP distribution trackers for dashboard monitoring.
• Public-health programmes: HIV/TB programme experience and knowledge of national pharmaceutical policies and systems are listed as added advantages.

Soft Skills

• Stakeholder coordination: The role coordinates with Ministry of Health, district, hospital, warehouse and health-facility stakeholders.
• Communication and reporting: Daily escalation notes, weekly briefs, monthly committee reports and quarterly performance reports are required.
• Analysis: The role analyses order fulfilment, missed orders, late submissions, stock data and expiry trends.
• Responsiveness: The post requires same-day responses to escalations from named operational stakeholders.

Benefits are not stated in the advert.

• Support regional availability of medicines and other health commodities.
• Work across quantification, ordering, delivery performance and warehouse discrepancy follow-up.
• Coordinate with district health teams, regional referral hospitals and Ministry of Health stakeholders.
• Use supply-chain indicators and dashboards to identify and escalate performance gaps.
• Contribute to medicines-and-therapeutics committees, antimicrobial stewardship and pharmacovigilance.
• Help reduce medicine expiry wastage through facility-level analysis and targeted supervision.
• Choose between two stated post locations, Jinja and Lira City.

Apply using the application button on the Baylor vacancy page. Include a cover letter, CV, daytime telephone contact, three traceable professional references, UNEB certificates and university transcripts. The closing date is 15 November 2026.

• Checked on 10 November 2026 against Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation-Uganda's official advert.
• Closing date confirmed as 15 November 2026. NextRoleHub closes the listing at 23:59 Kampala time that day.
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