- Position Title: Pharmacy Supervisor
- Number of Vacancies: 1
- Location: Dagahaley Refugee Camp, Garissa County, Kenya
- Employment Type: Fixed-Term Contract (12 Months – renewable based on performance; initial 3 months probation)
- Start Date: ASAP
- Application Deadline: 14th January 2026
- Category/Department: Medical / Pharmacy / Humanitarian Operations
- Salary Expectation: Estimated KSh 120,000–180,000 gross monthly (including applicable field and hardship-related benefits). This estimate is based on prevailing Kenyan market rates for Pharmacy Supervisor and Pharmacist roles within humanitarian and NGO health programmes operating in remote and hardship locations. Actual remuneration is determined by MSF salary scales and local conditions; this estimate is provided for guidance only – no legal implication intended.
Introduction
The Pharmacy Supervisor role offers a critical opportunity to support life-saving medical services within a humanitarian emergency setting. Based in Dagahaley Refugee Camp, this position is central to ensuring the safe, efficient, and uninterrupted supply of essential medicines and medical materials in line with MSF standards and national regulations.
As a Pharmacy Supervisor, you will oversee pharmacy operations, manage the pharmaceutical supply chain, supervise pharmacy staff, and support clinical teams to ensure patients receive safe and effective treatment. This role is ideal for Kenyan-registered pharmacists committed to humanitarian principles and capable of working in high-pressure, resource-constrained environments.
About Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) is an international, independent medical humanitarian organization that provides emergency medical assistance to populations affected by conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare. MSF operates in some of the world’s most challenging environments and is guided by principles of neutrality, independence, and impartiality. MSF is committed to professional excellence, ethical conduct, and respect for diversity.
1. Pharmacy Supervisor (Dagahaley Refugee Camp – 1 Post)
Brief Overview:
The Pharmacy Supervisor is responsible for ensuring the general functioning of the pharmacy and supervising pharmacy supply chain processes in accordance with MSF standards, protocols, and procedures to ensure efficiency, safety, and continuous availability of drugs and medical supplies.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensuring storage, stock management and supply processes, as well as hygiene and security procedures, tools, and protocols (controlling pests and rodents), implementing appropriate quality controls and records, in order to ensure good storage conditions (temperatures, humidity and light exposure) and availability of drugs and medical material, according to MSF protocols, national regulations and in cooperation with the logistics department.
- Coordinating the delivery, reception and recording of international and local orders, in close coordination with the logistics department, updating stock files and informing line managers on their status (shortfalls, over-stocking, expiry dates), in order to permanently ensure security stock levels and ensure efficient management of stock.
- Supervising orders of medical and drug material in order to ensure an efficient and appropriate consumption pattern under budget constraints.
- Supervising the supply of drugs to patients, according to medical prescriptions, informing them on consumption patterns and keeping conditions in order to ensure their therapeutic progression.
- Ensuring efficient supply to other pharmacies managed/supported by MSF according to orders and stocks and using cold chain when needed. Monitoring and analysing orders of depending pharmacies in order to avoid ruptures of stock or having expired drugs.
- Supervising, with the HR department, the associated processes (sizing, staff shifts, recruitment, training, performance evaluation, development and internal/external communication) of the pharmaceutical team and the nursing staff, in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required and to improve their dispensing capabilities.
- Recording all items received and issued in computer (Isystock) and reporting on drug consumptions and medical equipment dispensed according to protocols, informing on unusual patterns as well as forecasting future needs, in order to rationalise the budget and to ensure availability.
- Assisting in training of nursing staff regarding dispensing of drugs and their side effects.
Requirements for Appointment / Qualifications
Education
- Essential: Bachelor of Pharmacy
Experience
- At least one year certified work experience as a pharmacy manager or pharmacist.
- Experience of team supervision.
Languages
- English is essential.
- Swahili and Somali are desirable.
Knowledge
- Essential computer literacy (Word, Excel and Internet).
Competencies
- Results and Quality Orientation – Level 2
- Teamwork and Cooperation – Level 2
- Behavioural Flexibility – Level 2
- Commitment to MSF Principles – Level 2
- Stress Management – Level 3
Terms of Service
- Contract Duration: 12 Months (renewable based on performance)
- Initial Probation Period: 3 Months
- Reporting To: Project Pharmacy Manager, MSF Dagahaley Project
- Eligibility: Open to Kenyan nationals only
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates must complete their application by 14th January 2026 through the official MSF application portal.
Applicants must attach the following documents:
- Detailed CV (including telephone number, email address, and physical address)
- Short cover letter (maximum ½ page)
- Scan of National ID
- Scan of academic qualifications
Each attachment must be named as follows:
“CV Last name First name 2024” (example: “CV Ahmed Mohamed 2024”, “Bachelors degree Johnson Mary 2024”).
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Apply for Pharmacy Supervisor at MSF – Dagahaley Refugee Camp | Deadline 14th January 2026
MSF is an equal opportunity employer and does not charge any recruitment or training fees.
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