National Expanded Program of Immunization (NEPI), Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) requires managing monitoring and technical support of its cold chain related activities of GAVI funded Cold Chain Equipment Optimization Platform (CCEOP2). This project involves managing warehousing, transportation, and installations of solar and electric refrigerators from a warehouse in Kabul to health facilities across all of 34 provinces in the country. The project also includes monitoring of installation standards (installation of solar and electric refrigerators will be done by qualified government cold chain technicians). As the key job profile, the extender will be managing the distribution, installation and reporting of CCEOP related cold chain equipment in all provinces of the country. This will result in improving cold chain capacities and enhance availability of vaccine in all health facilities and will contribute to improving access to potent vaccine and reducing zero dose children. The scope includes managing the supply and monitoring of over 1500 refrigerators installations across country and over a period of 2 years (2024-2026).
The purpose of this position is to support NEPI, MOPH, UNICEF and UNICEF zonal offices in smooth implementation and monitoring of CCEOP activities in all provinces of Afghanistan.
Objectives:
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To follow the national and cold chain plan and ensure that distribution of refrigerators from national level to next level of supply chain (regions or provinces) (right models and right quantities) are shipped to provinces and respective health facilities as per the operational deployment plan and timelines.
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To contribute to improving the management, proper distribution, and installation of Cold Chain equipment under CCEOP2.
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contribute in proper, follow up of equipment installation and providing progress report.
Key duties and responsibilities:
1. Management at national and field level
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Record and share good practices and lessons learnt in SDD installation and CCEOP implementation in quarterly progress report.
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Arrange monthly Project Management Team (PMT) meeting and prepare the meeting reports with relevant stakeholders.
2. Field monitoring visits
Allocation of field time for office work and monitoring visits
Frequency of field monitoring visits:
3. Data and reporting
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Prepare a monthly progress sheet on CCEOP implementation (Shipments arrived in the month, equipment dispatched for installation, actual installations done).
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Other: Any other task as assigned by supervisor