Permanent contract: – Start date: As soon as possible
PUI in all four corners of the world
With 40 years of experience, Première Urgence Internationale:
- Provides assistance to nearly 6 million beneficiaries
- With a budget of over € 100 million per year
- Spread across 22 countries, on 5 continents
- Thanks to the involvement and commitment of:
- More than 2000 national employees
- Approximately 200 expatriates of 45 different nationalities
- And 90 employees at headquarters
PUI operates in 10 sectors and distinguishes itself through its integrated approach to responding to crises. This method aims to identify and understand all the needs of people affected by a crisis. Our teams mobilize to provide a comprehensive response to all the fundamental needs of populations affected by humanitarian crises, from the immediate crisis to the moment, until they regain their autonomy and dignity.
To learn more about our history , our values , and our areas of intervention.
And what about the Pharmacy Monitoring Officer in all of this?
Under the supervision of the Responsible Pharmacist, you will contribute to strengthening the quality of interventions and pharmaceutical practices. You will also act as interim Responsible Pharmacist to ensure the continuity of pharmaceutical operations.
For this purpose, your responsibilities will be as follows:
- Quality Assurance: you will participate in the implementation and compliance with the organization’s QA policy, particularly regarding the selection of local suppliers and sources of medicines.
- Technical, programmatic, and strategic support: In collaboration with the Responsible Pharmacist, you will provide technical support to field and headquarters teams on all pharmacy-related matters. You will train and support field teams in the use of tools and procedures. You will ensure compliance with the use of tools and adherence to PUI procedures.
- Human Resources: you will provide support to missions during recruitment.
- Capitalizing on experience and standardization: you will contribute to the overall harmonization of pharmaceutical practices.
As an Interim Responsible Pharmacist: only during the absence of the Responsible Pharmacist, the Interim Responsible Pharmacist has the authority, independence, resources, and responsibilities necessary to carry out their duties, solely during the interim period. They must assume their responsibilities personally.
For this purpose, your responsibilities will be as follows:
- Regulatory compliance: you will contribute to maintaining the license for wholesale distributor with a humanitarian purpose with the ANSM.
- Quality Management System (QMS): you will maintain PUI’s quality management system (QMS).
- Batch recalls and Pharmacovigilance: you will coordinate and immediately (<24h) handle all batch recall actions for medicines, pharmacovigilance and complaints.
- Supply chain integrity: you will ensure the integrity of the pharmaceutical supply chain, from suppliers to the recipient.
- Continuity of pharmaceutical operations: you will ensure the continuity of emergency pharmaceutical operations, including outside of the establishment’s opening hours (pharmaceutical on-call duty), and will act as the PR’s substitute.
The challenges that await you:
Ensure compliance with the Quality Assurance policy. Strengthen the quality of pharmaceutical practices. Provide technical support to missions. Maintain the quality management system (QMS).
What you will need to succeed
- Education: You must hold a Pharmacy degree from an EU country. This is a MANDATORY requirement. Training in Good Distribution Practices (GDP) would be an asset.
- Experience: You have at least one experience working abroad for a medical humanitarian NGO. Relevant experience in pharmaceutical distribution and registration with the Order of Pharmacists are a plus. Have you already worked with Première Urgence Internationale? That would be a definite advantage!
- Skills: You possess proven skills in Quality Assurance. You are familiar with best practices in wholesale distribution and quality management systems (QMS). You also have a good understanding of pharmaceutical product management in the field. You have already conducted and delivered training sessions.
- Required qualities: You are motivated to work in a humanitarian structure and you demonstrate leadership, analysis, flexibility and a sense of priorities, as well as dynamism, rigor and adaptability, with an ability to work in a stressful context.
- Languages: Are you fluent in French and English? Great, that’s essential for this position! If you also speak Arabic, that will be a definite asset.
Smile at you manager
“Join a team committed to addressing the pharmaceutical challenges of our humanitarian missions, in a cross-functional role combining technical support, team mentoring, and responsibilities!”
PUI will offer you
- Status: Executive
- Salary: 3300 EUR gross per month
- Medical coverage: 100 % of the Health and Welfare insurance
- Coverage: Coverage of 50% of the transport ticket and 60% of Restaurant Vouchers (with a face value of €10)
- Rest : 5 weeks of paid leave per year + 1 RTT day per month (37 hours/week)
- A flexible teleworking policy , based on three modalities
Nos engagements
Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is committed to preventing all types of undesirable behavior in the workplace, including harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct, and to promoting the well-being of the children and adults with whom PUI comes into contact. PUI expects all employees to perform their duties and professional responsibilities in accordance with PUI’s Ethical Framework.
All PUI employees will undergo appropriate training and are committed to promoting, disseminating, and respecting the principles set out in its ethical charter.
The successful candidate for this position will potentially have access to personal data concerning children and vulnerable adults in the course of their work (Category 2 in the Safe Recruitment Risk Classification). Therefore, all job offers will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks, which may include criminal record and terrorist financing checks.
Première Urgence Internationale considers the diversity of nationalities, genders, beliefs, backgrounds, and statuses within its Human Resources to be a major asset for its humanitarian work, and therefore adheres strictly to the principle of non-discrimination throughout its recruitment process.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization and encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.
Please note that Première Urgence Internationale will under no circumstances solicit financial contributions for administrative costs related to recruitment. Any information to this effect is fraudulent; please disregard it.
Do you recognize yourself in this profile and do you support our commitments? Do you feel ready to take on the challenge and join the PUI family?
How to apply
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