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USAID/Tanzania requires the highly specialized technical services of a Senior Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) Advisor for the Health Systems team to oversee complex supply chain related activiti... USAID/Tanzania requires the highly specialized technical services of a Senior Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) Advisor for the Health Systems team to oversee complex supply chain related activities, including commodity procurement and systems strengthening, in Tanzania. The position supports a data- driven and streamlined public sector procurement and distribution system that incorporates essential reproductive child health (RCH), family planning (FP), tuberculosis (TB), malaria, HIV/AIDS, and other essential commodities. The Senior Advisor will oversee supply chain activities for the U.S. Government’s (USG) President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program, President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), FP, Maternal and Child Health (MCH), and TB Programs. This includes non-USG support provided by other development partners (DPs) to ensure availability of FP commodities. USAID’s health activities, in Tanzania, meet the needs of a large number of beneficiaries and has an extensive geographical coverage. The Agency’s supply chain portfolio is estimated at US$120 million per year. The Senior Advisor will ensure that sound policy, strategic and technical analysis occurs in support of these objectives; monitoring and evaluation systems, meet management and reporting requirements; coordination with USG and other partners serves supply chain needs; and that reinforcing Tanzania’s sustainable capacity in these functions is aggressively pursued. The Senior Advisor will serve both USAID and the USG PEPFAR team as the principal expert, source of guidance, and representative on health commodities supply chain management challenges and issues, opportunities, and progress. Besides serving both USAID and PEPFAR, the Senior Advisor will also coordinate with other major supply chain efforts, including those implemented through the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, other donors and key stakeholders. In addition, the incumbent will collaborate with other supply chain advisors and assistants who contribute to the supply chain portfolio in Tanzania.