Avis de recrutement : Recrutement d’un Gestionnaire principal, équipement de la chaîne du froid à Genève, Suisse.

Avis de recrutement : Recrutement d’un Gestionnaire principal, équipement de la chaîne du froid à Genève, Suisse.

Job description

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership committed to saving children’s lives and protecting people’s health by increasing equitable use of vaccines in lower-income countries. The Vaccine Alliance brings together implementing country and donor governments, the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private sector partners. Gavi uses innovative finance mechanisms, including co-financing by recipient countries, to secure sustainable funding and adequate supply of quality vaccines. Since 2000, Gavi has contributed to the immunisation of more than 981 million children and the prevention of more than 16 million future deaths.

THE ROLE

Every year, the Alliance provides hundreds of millions of dollars in health system strengthening (HSS) grants and technical support to help countries strengthen their health systems and immunisation programmes, and achieve sustainable improvement in the coverage and equity of immunisation. The HSIS team works closely with other Secretariat teams, especially the Country Support team, and a diverse range of Alliance partners (especially WHO and UNICEF) to help countries design and implement this support.

Within the Secretariat, the team leads work with partners to develop programmatic approaches in areas including equity, supply chain, data, demand, gender, community engagement, immunisation workforce and programme management; provides hands on support to help countries and Secretariat teams design Gavi’s grants; and to monitor performance and capture and disseminate lessons learned.

Robust supply chains are critical to achieve Gavi’s goal to reach every child with immunisation, and to protect the billions of dollars of vaccines procured by Gavi and countries every year. The Alliance immunisation supply chain strategy provides an end-to-end perspective of the supply chain with a focus on 5 fundamentals, namely continuous improvement and planning, data for management, immunisation supply chain system design, cold chain equipment and management, coordination and human resources. Since its current supply chain strategy was launched in 2014, the Alliance has helped countries make substantial and measurable improvements in the performance of their supply chains. In 2015, Gavi launched its cold chain equipment optimisation platform (CCEOP), which has since helped countries to procure over 74,000 units of advanced cold chain equipment (such as ice-lined and solar direct drive refrigerators) as well as remote temperate monitoring equipment. It also supports broader cold chain strengthening through its health system grants and has supported expansion of national and regional cold chain capacity to enable introduction of COVID vaccines. As Gavi is in its 2021-2025 strategic period, the Alliance is looking to build on this foundation to ensure cold chain is available wherever it is needed to immunise every child, accelerate development and deployment of new cold chain and associated technologies, and strengthen maintenance and management of the cold chain.

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