Director & Team Lead Supply Chain

4 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa VillageReach Full time

**ABOUT VILLAGEREACH**

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone, so that each person has the health care needed to thrive. We develop solutions that improve equity and access to primary health care**. **This includes making sure products are available when and where they are needed and primary health care services are delivered to the most under-reached. Radical collaboration with governments, the private sector and other partners strengthen our ability to scale and sustain these solutions. Our work increases access to quality health care for more than 58 million people in Africa. VillageReach in incorporated in Washington State and has offices in Seattle (USA), Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, and Mozambique.

**Summary**:
The Supply Chain Director & Team Lead shall recruit, retain, develop and deploy appropriate Supply Chain technical resources (internal and external) to meet program needs and ensure related knowledge management. Specifically, they will oversee staff utilization, program satisfaction levels, and achievement of annual plan (describes target technical contributions for the year). The Director & Team Lead - Supply Chain, will serve as a senior advisor to VillageReach’s Supply Chain Community of Practice and oversee VillageReach’s programs with a supply chain focus, working with VillageReach staff in multiple country offices, as well as with global, regional and country partners and donors. This position reports to the Director, Global Technical Team (GTT).

**Description**:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

**Managerial (20%)**
- Line management of supply chain Global Technical Team staff;
- Manage utilization, recruitment and retention of supply chain GTT staff;
- Manage GTT budgets (training, conferences, general development resources)
- Provide organizational leadership to strategy development in supply chain. Ensure strategy is informed by analysis relating to trends in each thematic area and that it is aligned with organizational goals and strategies.
- Develop a clear approach to ‘full spectrum’ technical support, encompassing Long Term Technical Assistance (LTTA) for core countries, Medium Term Assistance (MTA) for Partner Countries and Short-term Technical Assistance (STTA) for Supply Chain in TA Countries
- Mentor and provide career development, including looking for program opportunities that allow staff to build skills or pursue areas of interest;
- Coordinate with program leads to allocate staff to programs;
- Review and determine whether program requests should be met through internal development vs. using external resources;
- Manage team-specific budgets (business development, training, conferences, general development resources)

**Technical Quality and Standards (40%)**
- Ensure that VillageReach supply chain programs are informed by best available evidence and good practice, and effectively designed, implemented, and evaluated.
- Facilitate the capacity strengthening of supply chain program in their design and implementation to meet organizational standards on quality.
- Oversee development of tools, methods, and standards that support and advance VillageReach supply chain technical capabilities
- Lead the development and implementation of supply chain capacity development plans to strengthen core country teams’ capabilities for technical functions that are embedded in country structures.
- Actively promote VillageReach service offerings to partners and to existing and potential donors.
- Develop strategic relationships with key technical counterparts in the supply chain landscape.
- Undertake representation of VillageReach in regional and international professional and sector-specific meetings.
- Contribute to business development efforts and ensure country teams receive adequate technical support from the supply chain GTT for proposal writing and fundraising as relevant
- Provide strategic technical oversight for relevant Supply Chain grants and contracts
- Develop and maintain relationships with donors activity managers in directing program implementation
- Provide financial (budget and expenditure tracking) oversight for priority supply chain grants and contracts
- Ensure alignment between core supply chain grants and the broader VillageReach Supply Chain Strategy
- Coordinate program implementation with country teams for relevant work streams
- Manage Supply Chain Community of Practice to share and build knowledge
- Develop and deploy new tools, methods and frameworks within Supply Chain areas of work
- Identify and make available existing external tools, methods and frameworks within Supply Chain areas of work
- Develop VillageReach IP and thought leadership within Supply Chain;
- Actively promote VillageReach Supply Chain services to programs and donors;
**Building Relationships & Business Development (20%)**
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